108MP smartphone sensor announced by Samsung
Last week Xiaomi announced that it will be the first manufacturer to launch a phone with a 108MP main camera. Today, Samsung released details about the sensor that Xiaomi wants to employ. Samsung announced the ISOCELL Bright HMX sensor for smartphones with 108MP resolution. Its size is 1/1.33”, which is 125% bigger than the 48MP ISOCELL Bright GM1. This size lets the sensor retain the same 0.8μm pixel size.
The Korean company stated in a press release that the sensor will have over 100 million effective pixels. The sensor will be able to produce “exceptional photos even in extreme lighting conditions”. It will employ Tetracell technology (Samsung’s Quad Bayer), which means that this is essentially a 27MP sensor with 1.6μm pixel size.
It comes with the Smart-ISO – a mechanism that selects the level of amplifier gains according to the illumination and switches to a low ISO to “improve the pixel saturation and produce vivid photographs”. The HMX also supports lossless 6K video recording at 30 fps, which is also good news.
Samsung plans to start mass production of the sensor by the end of August. This in mind, we can expect the new Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 to have the new sensor.