Sony Announces a New Type 1/2.6 22.5 Megapixel Exmor RS for Smartphones

Sony is proud to announce the commercialization of a new Exmor RS™ image sensor for smartphones and other devices that require increasingly better cameras and thinner form factors.

The IMX318 is a type 1/2.6 stacked CMOS image sensor with 22.5 effective megapixels, and it boasts a more compact size, greater image quality, and higher performance.

This new Exmor RS is the industry’s first to be equipped with built-in high-speed hybrid autofocus (“AF”), as fast as 0.03 seconds, and built-in 3-axis electronic image stabilization technology for video. Sony aims to begin shipments for this new CMOS image sensor in May, 2016.