Aptina Imaging Corporation was a company that sold

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imaging products. Their CMOS sensors were used in the Nikon V1 (10.1 MP, CX format, 16.9x17.9 mm), Nikon J1, and Nikon V2. By 2009, Aptina had a 16% share of the CMOS image sensors market, with revenue estimated at $671 million. The company was acquired in 2014 by

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History

Aptina Imaging was created as a spin-off of

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's Image Sensor Division in March 2008. Aptina was still an independent division within Micron until July 2009, when Aptina became an independent, privately held company, being partially sold to a group including TPG and Riverwood Capital.Aptina boosts image; embraces foundries
// EETimes, 4/12/2011 ON Semiconductor Corporation completed the acquisition of Aptina Imaging in August 2014.

Milestones

* 2014 –

completes acquisition of Aptina Imaging * 2014 – Aptina Imaging has bought color filter array processing and imager probe assets from

, and close to 100 Micron employees will join Aptina's manufacturing facility in

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on Aug. 4. * 2011 – Shipped 2nd billionth sensor * 2009 – Aptina spins out as an independent privately held company * 2008 – Shipped 1 billionth sensor * 2008 –

launches Aptina: a CMOS image sensor division * 2006 – Micron Imaging Group acquires Avago Technologies' image sensor business * 1992–1995 – JPL team invented CMOS active pixel sensor technology

Products

Predecessors of Aptinas products were CMOS image sensors of Photobit and Micron technology. Photobit was founded in 1995 and acquired by Micron in 2001, who started selling their own image sensors a year later. The first commercially available sensors of Photobit were the PB-159 in 1998 and the PB-100 in 1999. Micron showcased a 1.75-μm CMOS pixel sensor in 2005 and launched it in 2007. Micron also developed and built a prototype of a 1.4-μm CMOS pixel sensor by 2007. The

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used Aptina sensors with dual conversion gain sensors, allowing users to choose from a mode with high

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(DR) but low

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, and a low light mode with low read noise but also less DR. In 2014 the company started offering a 1-Inch 4K Image Sensor for security and surveillance cameras.

Awards

* 2011 – AET (China) Best Product Award Winner: AR0331 * 2010 – Winner, EDN Innovation Award: MT9H004 * 2009 – Finalist, EDN Innovation Award: MT9M033 * 2008 – Takayanagi Award: Presented to Dr. Junichi Nakamura * 2008 – Best Supplier Award:

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References

External links

Aptina web-site (with ON Semiconductor)

Aptina Corporate Fact Sheet
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