Samsung working on ‘600MP’ camera sensor

• As per Yongin Park, Head of Sensor Business Team at Samsung, our eyes are said to match a resolution of around 500MP.

Samsung after debuting 108 megapixels (MP) sensor in the Galaxy S20 Ultra, the South Korean teach giant is aiming to take the camera sensor competition at the whole new level by reportedly building 600MP snapper.

An editorial published on company’s website revealed that Samsung is working on a 600MP sensor that that will deliver more detail than the human eye can see.

As per Yongin Park, Head of Sensor Business Team at Samsung, our eyes are said to match a resolution of around 500MP. The goal of his team is to develop senors that can outdo that, which will be used in many applications outside of the smartphones world.

Both ISOCELL Bright HM1 and ISOCELL Bright HMX sensor, debut in the Galaxy S20 Ultra and the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 respectively, can output 108 MP images, but they are really mostly meant to shoo in their binned 12MP and 27MP modes.

Introducing 600MP sensor itself a landmark achievement, but it will be absurdly huge and won’t fit into a smartphone.

One way to do it is to shrink the pixel size - the HM1 and HMX sensors have 0.8?m pixel size, which until recently were the smallest available. Then Samsung introduced a sensor based on 0.7?m pixels and it hopes it can take the shrinking further.

Park did not commit to any deadlines, but seeing recent developments a 600MP module might come sooner than we think.