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OmniVision Technologies (NasdaqNM: OVTI) opened at $13.16. So far today, the stock has hit a low of $13.11 and a high of $13.42. OVTI is now trading at $13.41, up $0.31 (2.37%). Over the last 52 weeks the stock has ranged from a low of $4.12 to a...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today introduced its OV7675 VGA image sensor, designed to deliver optimized performance at
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OmniVision Technologies is the largest producer of CMOS image sensors.[1] Design is carried out in the United States. Fabrication occurs in Taiwan.

OmniVision is the only major image sensor producer dedicated solely to image sensor and related product production.[2]

OmniVision has the widest selection of products. OmniVision is present in the most amount of markets.[3] They also are frequently the first to market with the latest technology.[4]

OmniVision has the strongest financial position of any image sensor producer, with almost half of its assets in cash.

OmniVision is frequently the market leader by revenue and quantity. For a time in late 2006 and early 2007, Micron Technologies temporarily produced the most by revenue until they ran into financial difficulty.

Finance

OmniVision's fiscal year ends on April 30th.

Balance sheet

  • Assets have grown from $3.72 million Dollars in 1998[5] to $688 million Dollars in 2007.
  • Cash, Cash Equivalents, & Short Term Investments have grown from $2.69 million Dollars in 1998[5] to $305 million Dollars in 2007, now 1/3 of the present market capitalization (14 December, 2007).
  • Shares Outstanding have grown from 2.4 million shares in 1998[5] to 54.94 million shares in 2007.

Income statement

  • Sales have grown from $166 thousand Dollars in 1996[5] to $528 million Dollars in 2007.
  • Quarterly sales have accelerated in recent quarters.
OmniVision's Quarterly Sales
OmniVision's Quarterly Sales

Cash flow statement

  • Cash Flows from Operations have grown from ($5.3) million Dollars in 1998[5] to $43 million Dollars in 2007.
  • Capital Expenditures have grown from $413 thousand Dollars in 1998[5] to $83 million Dollars in 2007.

Miscellaneous

ASPs

Average Selling Prices of sensors have declined at a 20% to 25% average annual rate,[2] a slower pace than the 34.7% rate that the Intel series suffers.[6]

Stock Options Financing

The company is heavily dependent upon stock options to finance a large percentage of employee compensation. As of the 2007 annual report, there were roughly 12.5 million OmniVision issued options outstanding for an 8 year weighted average remaining contractual life and a $18.54 weighted average exercise price.[7] There are approximately 49 million shares issued and outstanding.

Seasonality

Product

The specific products and product groups have been known to be subject to typical seasonal variable revenue cyclicality.[7]

Share Retirement & Dividends

To date, OmniVision has authorized:

  • Two share buybacks[8][9]
  • No dividends
  • No stock options buybacks.

Shares outstanding have been reduced from a high of nearly 60 million shares to under 50 million.


Operations

As of the fiscal 2007 annual report, OmniVision currently employs over 2,000 people.[7]

Sensor production

  • F4Q2006, 48 million sensors[10]
  • F1Q2007, 58 million sensors[11]
  • F2Q2007, 65 million sensors[12]
  • F3Q2007, 66 million sensors[13]
  • F4Q2007, 62 million sensors[2]
  • F1Q2008, 86 million sensors[12]
  • F2Q2008, 120 million sensors (16% of all sensors ever produced by the company)[12]
  • Since inception, 770 million sensors[14]

Operational Process

Operational Divisions

Mainstream Products

  • F1Q2007, 70% of production[10]
  • F2Q2007, 85% of production[11]
  • F3Q2007, 80% of production[13]
  • F4Q2007, 80% of production[2]
  • F1Q2008, 70% of production[15]
  • F2Q2008, 65% of production[12]

Handsets

DSPs

Emerging Products (formerly, Advanced Products)

  • F1Q2007, 30% of production[10]
  • F2Q2007, 15% of production[11]
  • F3Q2007, 20% of production[13]
  • F4Q2007, 20% of production[2]
  • F1Q2008, 30% of production[15]
  • F2Q2008, 35% of production[12]

PCs

Automotive

Security

Medical

DSCs

Geography of Operations

The United States of America

  • Corporate Headquarters - Sunnyvale, California

Mainland China

  • Shanghai
  • Beijing
  • Shenzhen

Taiwan

  • Taipei

South Korea

  • Seoul

Hong Kong

Singapore

Europe

  • Hook, The United Kingdom
  • Nokia, Finland

Technologies

Owned

OmniBSI[16]

  • 1.4 to 0.9 micron pixel
  • Superior to 1.75u Front Side Iluminated pixels
  • Electronic Design Magazine's Best of 2008 Award[17]
  • Lower f stops
  • Less crosstalk

Wavefront Coding

The patent for Wavefront Coding was granted to CDM Optics on January 15th, 2008[18]
  • May focus any one or any number of focal fields, selectively.[19]
  • Can be used to measure distance passively in a single exposure, as opposed to the more normal, time dependent active rangefinder method used for autofocus mechanisms.[20]
  • Can "[correct] optical aberrations within the image."[14]

Comparing Wavefront Coding to extending depth of field by using color channels in late 2003, "'in a normal lens the red, green and blue light rays all have a slightly different focus,' Cathey explained. 'You can correct for this by using combinations of lenses, but we can do it much more easily by wavefront coding because it becomes irrelevant whether the different colours end up at different distances from the lens.'"

Dr. Cathey goes on to explain the advantages of a Wavefront Coded system, that "the technique also corrects for the blur caused by the temperature-related aberrations associated with inexpensive plastic optics. Optical elements can be manufactured in plastic providing a lower-cost, high-volume solution."[21]

  • Wavefront Coding can also be used to remove aberrations in sound.[22]

Wafer-Level Optics

  • A recent (March 23, 2008) patent filed in Europe[23] is for a wafer-level optics production method.

Not Owned

Chip Scale Packaging

  • OmniVision was first to develop this technology, implemented in the 1/10" VGA, having a height of only 2.5mm.[24]
    • Tessera created an alternative method, called a "Wafer Level Camera", months after OmniVision was already shipping the 1/10" VGA in volume
    • Micron discovered their own techniques nearly a year after OmniVision, also calling their technique "Wafer Level Cameras"
  • These advances have allowed image sensor manufacturers to begin to integrate camera module manufacturing.[25]

High Dynamic Range (HDR) / Signal to Noise Ratio

  • For image sensors, "dynamic range is essentially signal-to-noise ratio, which is just signal divided by noise."[26]
  • OmniVision is vastly ahead of their competition in this area, able to produce at least 65dB ranges for most new chips while the competition cannot break 40dB.
  • The highest ranged sensor produced by OmniVision has a 110dB dynamic range, capable of viewing more than the difference (90dB) between a moonlit night and a sunny day in a single exposure.[27] It is the largest color HDR currently (14 December, 2007) offered by any CMOS image sensor producer.


Scalado

  • They provide SpeedView to handset manufacturers for WYSIWYG picture taking, which captures the image shown on the display, and rapid picture taking (10-20 images per second).[28]
  • OmniVision's OV3640 is the first chip ever to be fully Scalado compatible.

CMOS Image Sensors

Night Vision

High-Definition Video

Liquid Lens

  • Varioptic has created a lens focusing system that rearranges fluids in a single "lens" to focus rather than using multiple solid lenses. OmniVision provides the OV3640 for their 3mp sensor needs.[29]

Near Infrared

Back Side Illumination

Products

Product Characteristics

Wavefront Coding Products

  • Nokia (NOK) is working to integrate Wavefront Coding into their products.[30]
  • Sony-Ericsson is working to integrate Wavefront Coding into their products.[31]
  • Kyocera (KYO) is working to integrate Wavefront Coding into their products.[32]
  • Samsung is working to integrate Wavefront Coding into their products.[33]
  • Varioptic, the creators of Liquid Lens, is working to integrate Wavefront Coding into their products.[34]

TrueFocus

  • Able to autofocus digitally via an internal autofocus[19]
  • Able to focus upon specific regions of a picture, selected by a user, avoiding common mistakes made by autofocus algorithms[19]
  • May focus all focal fields, providing an Infinite Depth of Field
  • External Autofocus compatible
  • No moving parts.
  • Focusing handled digitally, requiring less lenses
  • No alternatives

Form Factors

A Form Factor is an industrial term for standard sizes of image sensors by lens diameter. Form Factors usually have implied resolutions by pixel size, e.g. 1/4" for 2mp at 2.2 microns per pixel (OmniPixel 2) yet 1.75 microns per pixel (OmniPixel 3) for 1/4" 3mp.

Height is not normally specified, but its' increased importance is causing OmniVision to now headline significantly smaller heights.

OmniVision competes very aggressively to attempt to be the first to market with the latest form factors for the various resolutions. Lately, they are attempting to also include the latest features and functions such as Wavefront Coding, HDR, MIPI, Anti-Shake, Scalado compatibility, greater sensitivities, and others.

8mp

The OV8810[35] is OmniVision's first attempt at 8mp.

  • 1/3"
  • 7mm height
  • OmniBSI
  • HDR Ready
  • True HD
  • Announced September 2008
  • Volume shipments expected first calendar quarter of 2009

5mp

The OV5642[36]

  • 1/4"
  • OmniBSI
  • Embedded TrueFocus
  • True HD
  • Announced September 2008
  • Volume shipments expected first calendar quarter of 2009

3mp

The OV3640
  • 1/4"
  • MIPI Capable
  • Image Stabilization
  • 65dB Dynamic Range[37]
  • First sensor ever to be fully Scalado compatible[28]
  • Autofocus Control
  • Volume production of the system on a chip, the first 3mp announced to be in volume production by OmniVision, was announced in February, 2008.[38]
The OV3642
  • All OV3640 Capabilities
  • Embedded TrueFocus
  • OmniPixel3-HS
  • Double the sensitivity of currently (11 February, 2008) competing 1/4" 3mp products
  • JPEG Compression
  • Traditional autofocus compatible
  • Internal instantaneous autofocus engine
  • Volume shipments expected in the third quarter of 2008

2mp

The OV2650 is the first high volume intended, form factor frontier of any resolution ever to include HDR.

  • 1/5"
  • MIPI Capable
  • Image Stabilization
  • 85dB High Dynamic Range
  • 520mV/lux-sec Sensitivity[39]
  • Design wins were announced at the F2Q08 conference call.[12]

VGA

The OV7690[40]

  • 1/13"
  • OmniPixel3-HS (double the sensitivity of competing sensors)
  • Announced February, 2008
  • Volume shipments expected third calendar quarter of 2008

Management

Shaw Hong, CEO and President

Co-founder of the company, Mr. Hong holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Jiao Tong University in China and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University.[41]

Industry Characteristics

Sweet Spot

Using the industry vernacular, the so-called "Sweet Spot" is the resolution achieving the highest revenue during a period of measurement. Currently, management implies that the 2mp chips retain this position[15] but expects 3mp to take the lead sometime in calendar 2008.[12]

The Sweet Spot has typically been the latest 1/4" form factor products.

Business Models

Fabbed

Image sensor producers who own and operate their semiconductor fabrication facilities are known as "fabs". Samsung would fit this description.

The term can also be used for companies that physically produce the chips yet don't take major roles in design. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) would fit this description.

Fabless or Fablite

Image sensor producers who purchase their physical inventory and possibly other supply chain steps from outside companies are called "fabless". OmniVision would fit this description.

Analysts and press pundits had argued as recently as calendar mid-2007 that the fabless model would not work in the CMOS image sensor industry.[42]

A new trend among fabless companies is to be "fablite", where the company doesn't own fabrication facilities but does own facilities capable of other production steps.

In OmniVision's case, they have stakes in companies that perform Chip Scale Packaging, among other steps.

Both Micron and Sony have announced their intentions to copy OmniVision's choice to become fabless/fablite.

IP Factory

Companies that discover and sell production techniques are sometimes called "IP Factories". Tessera Technologies (TSRA) would fit this description.

Customers

Sony (SNE)

OmniVision provides the sensor in the Playstation Eye for the PlayStation 3.[43]

OmniVision provides the sensor in the EyeToy for the Playstation and PS2.[44]

LG

Chose OmniVision to be a Strategic Supplier in March, 2006.[45]

Lenovo Group (LNVGY)

Chose OmniVision to be a Strategic Suppler in August, 2005.[46] However, they have sold their handset business,[47] and it's unclear whether OmniVision will remain as the strategic supplier.

Hella

Automotive Rearview Cameras.[48]

Avantis

Disposable 1/18" FDA approved sensor for the Third Eye Retroscope colonoscopy device.[49]

ETView

Single-use, disposable 1/7" CIF sensor used in the TVT (Tracheoscopic Ventilation Tube)[50]

Kyocera (KYO)[51]

Motorola (MOT)[52]

Sony-Ericsson[53]

Wild Planet Toys

OmniVision provides sensors for the Spy Video Car[54]

Mustek[55]

Polaroid[56]

NASA

OmniVision supplies sensors for the Picosat and Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Systems Engineering (PAUSE) Mars prototype aerobot project.[57]

Subsidiaries & Joint Ventures

CDM Optics

"In April 2005, [OmniVision] completed the acquisition of CDM Optics, Inc., or CDM, a company located in Boulder, Colorado. CDM is the exclusive licensee from an affiliate of the University of Colorado of a patented technology, known as Wavefront Coding technology that increases the performance of an imaging system by substantially increasing the depth of field and/or correcting optical aberrations within the image. We expect that it will significantly reduce the size and complexity of the auto-focus function on future camera modules utilizing OmniVision sensors. The closing consideration for the acquisition consisted of $10.0 million in cash and approximately 515,000 shares of common stock."[14]

VisEra

VisEra is a joint venture with TSMC located in Taiwan created for back-end manufacturing services. Both OmniVision and TSMC have entered into separate nonexclusive license agreements with VisEra to which each party licenses certain intellectual property to VisEra relating to manufacturing services.[14]

China WLCSP Limited

"WLCSP is in the business of designing, manufacturing, packaging and selling certain wafer level chip scale packaging related services, for which [OmniVision] is currently a customer. [OmniVision] owns approximately 19.98% of WLCSP’s registered capital on a fully-diluted basis and has appointed a member to WLCSP’s board of directors and a supervisor to monitor the actions of WLCSP’s board of directors and officers."[14]

XinTec

XinTec is "a Taiwan-based supplier of chip-scale packaging services." After "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) purchased approximately 90.5 million previously-unissued shares from XinTec, [OmniVision's] beneficial ownership percentage in XinTec declined to 12.4%."[14]

XinTec completed its' first fabrication facility capable of processing 300mm wafers with Wafer Level Packaging Technology. The combined monthly capacity for 200mm and 300mm wafers at XinTec is now 40,000 wafers.[58]

ImPac

" In 2003, in order to enhance its access to plastic and ceramic packaging services that were in short supply, the Company purchased approximately 27% of the common stock of ImPac."[14]

Suppliers

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM)

Powerchip Semiconductor

Distributors & OEMs

Foxconn

WPG Holdings

Competitors

OmniVision was the only company to increase sales in 2007 by more than 20%, "a 'rare' off year" for the industry.[59]

Micron Technology (MU)

Possibly due to Micon's inability to compete as evidenced by the large decline in "imaging" sales, newly arrived operating losses from "imaging",[60] and conspicuous underrepresentation in the VGA market with 50% of all units shipped in their first fiscal quarter of 2008 at 2mp and above with expectations that VGA and 1mp will be even less represented in the fiscal second quarter[61] but reasoned by the company "to improve its focus on the semiconductor memory market, [Micron] is exploring business model alternatives for its Imaging business", purchased from Avago Technologies,[62] and Photobit [63]"including partnering arrangements. Under any of the alternatives being considered, [Micron] expects that it will continue to manufacture CMOS image sensors."[64]

Micron's actions regarding their business producing CMOS sensors have arguably become somewhat disjointed. They have renamed their image sensor division "Aptina".[65] It is still a part of the overall company, yet it can "seek manufacturing alliances with outside foundries".[66] They call their new 1/11" 4mm x 4mm x 2.5mm VGA module a "Wafer Level Camera",[65] a possible play on the term "Wafer Level Optics" and possibly in response to Tessera's new "OPtiML™ Wafer Level Camera" technology,[67] even though OmniVision has been able to produce a similar sized VGA module since early 2007, calling the technology "chip scale packaging".[68]

Micron's problems may have worsened. "S&P said it has placed its BB- credit rating on CreditWatch 'with negative implications' citing 'challenging market conditions' faced by the Boise, Idaho-based tech company. S&P noted how 'a degree of economic diversity among the three markets has benefited ratings in the past.' 'However, concurrent weakness in all three markets, coupled with high capital expenditures to expand and upgrade manufacturing facilities, has led to substantial negative cash flows,' S&P said in a statement. Bruce Hyman, an S&P credit analyst, said the ratings agency is meeting with Micron management 'to review anticipated business conditions and capital expenditure plans.' 'In the event that we lower the rating, it is unlikely to be by more than one notch,' he said in a statement."[69]

Micron lost money on its' imaging division in fiscal 2008.[70]

Samsung

It is unclear whether the investigation into an accusation that Samsung used "its subsidiaries to create a slush fund and paying off public officials to avert investigations into its management practices" and raid on Samsung's offices are affecting its' CMOS image sensor business.[71]

Toshiba (TOSBF)

Toshiba is licensing Tessera's OptiML Focus Technology to compete with OmniVision's Wavefront Coding products.[72] There have been no product announcements yet.

Tessera Technologies (TSRA)

Tessera develops and markets CMOS image sensor production techniques.

They have run into difficulty with some of their patents:

"On February 29, 2008, the Patent Office issued an Official Action rejecting Tessera’s 6,133,627 patent in ex parte reexamination. The Patent Office rejected every claim of the ‘627 patent that is in reexamination.

Since February 15, the Patent Office has acted on Siliconware's reexaminations and has rejected the claims being asserted by Tessera against an array of chip manufacturers in US District Court lawsuits, ITC actions, and arbitration proceedings. The patents subject to Siliconware's reexaminations include Tessera's 6,433,419 and 6,465,893, both of which have rejections in inter partes reexaminations, and Tessera's 5,852,326 which has been similarly rejected in ex parte reexamination.

On February 26, the International Trade Commission took the rarely employed step of staying a hearing based on Siliconware's reexaminations. The ITC stayed Tessera's investigation against Spansion, Qualcom, ATI Technologies, Motorola, STMicroelectronics, and Freescale.

The patents Tessera is asserting against Siliconware are part of Tessera’s “Compliant Chip” license, a portfolio that had been previously asserted in numerous litigations and which, according to Tessera, has generated over $250 million dollars in licensing profits. "[73]

Strangely, Tessera was bestowed the "Product of the Year" for 2007, honored for their work on their Wafer Level Camera by the trade magazine Electronic Products even though OmniVision had already released a VGA module with a 2.5mm height earlier in the year.

STMicroelectronics N.V. (STM)

The French government has recently pledged 5.6 million Euros "towards a project to develop infra-red imaging sensors targeted at uses in the automotive, medical and aerospace industries. Participants in the Euros 23 million R&D project, dubbed Imalogic, include ST Microelectronics, image sensor specialist Sofradir, its subsidiary Ulis, Trixell, and French microelectronics research center CEA-LETI."[74]

There has been no news of interference within ST Micro by the French government since they took more share than their co-owners, the German government, except for proposals being sent to the French government to merge ST Micro into other companies.[75]

Eastman Kodak Company (EK)

Despite a meager product offering,[76] Kodak's promised a large leap in sensor sensitivity. They claim to be able to "[provide] a 2x to 4x increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs" with their new TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern. However, they did not specify what designs they were referencing, exactly.[77] If "current sensor designs" from above is to include current designs of competing sensors, OmniVision's HS pixel design, expected to be on the market, is claimed to be 2x the competing sensitivities.

Sony (SNE)

Currently, profits from image sensors are declining faster than the 90% drop in operating income at Sony.[78]


External links

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  2. OmniVision Products
  3. OmniVision News & Events
  4. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Prospectus
  5. Shifting Trends in Semiconductor Prices and the Pace of Technological Change
  6. 7.0 7.1 7.2 2007 Annual Report (2007 10-K)
  7. OmniVision Reports Fourth-Quarter and Fiscal 2005 Results; SEC Inquiry Terminated; Board Sets $100 Million Share Repurchase Program
  8. OmniVision Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal 2007.
  9. 10.0 10.1 10.2 OmniVision Technologies F1Q07 (Qtr End 7/31/06) Earnings Call Transcript (OVTI)
  10. 11.0 11.1 11.2 OmniVision F2Q07 (Qtr End 10/31/06) Earnings Call Transcript
  11. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 OmniVision F2Q08 (Qtr End 10/31/2007) Earnings Call Transcript
  12. 13.0 13.1 13.2 OmniVision F3Q07 (Qtr End 01/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
  13. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 Fiscal Second Quarterly Report (F2Q08 10-Q)
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  20. Wavefront coding keeps a focus on applications
  21. Systems and methods for minimizing aberrating effects in imaging systems
  22. ARRAYED IMAGING SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
  23. OmniVision's 1/10-inch OV7680 VGA CameraChip Ships to Customers Worldwide
  24. CMOS image sensor makers extend to module production
  25. Kodak fits 50MP into dynamic range
  26. OmniVision Introduces Single-Chip Color High Dynamic Range CameraChip Sensor
  27. 28.0 28.1 OmniVision and Scalado Collaborate
  28. Varioptic liquid lens in 3-Mpixel autofocus camera module
  29. (WO/2006/027405) METHOD OF CREATING COLOUR IMAGE, IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING MODULE
  30. Active autofocus window
  31. Image pickup apparatus and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same
  32. Optical system having multiple curvature lens and manufacturing method thereof
  33. Zoom Lens System with Wavefront Coding
  34. OmniVision Premieres World's First 1/3-Inch, 8 Megapixel CameraChip(TM) Sensor With 1.4 Micron OmniBSI(TM) Technology
  35. OmniVision Launches World's First 1/4-Inch, 5 Megapixel SOC Sensor
  36. OV3640 Press Release
  37. OmniVision in Volume Production With its First 1/4-Inch, 3-Megapixel System-On-A-Chip Sensor -- Multiple Tier One Handset Customer Design Wins Already Secured
  38. OmniVision Launches New 1/5-Inch, 2-Megapixel Image Sensor with High Dynamic Range and Anti-Shake Technology
  39. OmniVision Unveils World's Smallest VGA CameraChip Sensor
  40. Executive Management - OmniVision Technologies
  41. Jeffries & Company Equity Research - February 26, 2008
  42. Playstation Eye Interview
  43. Sony Plans to Sell EyeToy in US after Strong Launch
  44. LG Selects OmniVision as Strategic Supplier
  45. Lenovo Selects OmniVision as Strategic Supplier
  46. Lenovo completes sales of handset unit
  47. Hella Selects OmniVision CMOS Sensors for Automotive Rearview Cameras
  48. OmniVision Powers Avantis "Third Eye" Colonoscope
  49. OmniVision in FDA-Approved Intubation System from ETView
  50. OmniVision Powers New Camera Phone Designs from Kyocera Wireless
  51. OmniVision Provides Camera Technologies to Motorola
  52. OmniVision Provides CameraChips for Sony Ericsson
  53. Wild Planet Toys Select OmniVision Camera Chips for New Spy Video Car
  54. Mustek Selects OmniVision CameraChips for Their Digital Still Cameras
  55. OmniVision CameraChips Selected for Polaroid Cameras
  56. OmniVision CameraChips Give Mars Spacecraft Sight
  57. XinTec and OmniVision reiterate strong ties despite share transfer plan
  58. Analyst: Image sensor market to "bounce back" in 2008
  59. Micron 1Q 2008 10-Q
  60. Micron Technology F1Q08 (Qtr End 11/29/07) Earnings Call Transcript
  61. Micron Acquires Avago Technologies' Image Sensor Business
  62. Eric R. Fossum, Ph.D. - Adjunct Professor - University of Southern California, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
  63. Micron Fiscal 2007 10-K
  64. 65.0 65.1 Aptina Imaging Enhances Technology and Product Portfolio
  65. Bloodied Micron tries extreme (re)makeover
  66. OptiML™ Wafer Level Camera Technology
  67. OmniVision Introduces 1/10" VGA Camera Chip
  68. Micron shares fall on S&P credit rating review
  69. Micron Imaging Business Lost $31M in FY2008
  70. Prosecutors raid Samsung Electronics in probe
  71. Toshiba Licenses Tessera OptiML Focus Technology
  72. Siliconware Wins Again In Its Patent Reexamination Fight Against Tessera
  73. France targets Euros 23 million digital sensor project
  74. Ex-ST exec proposes pan-European chip company
  75. Kodak - CMOS Image Sensor Product List
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