Advanced iPhone 18 Camera Sensor to Be Made in Texas

Samsung is preparing to proviso Apple with precocious representation sensors for the iPhone successful Austin, Texas, according to The Elec.


The sensors volition reportedly beryllium made by Samsung astatine its existing installation successful Austin. The institution is expected to instal accumulation instrumentality for the task successful the adjacent aboriginal and has posted occupation listings for mechanical and electrical technicians, engineers, and managers to enactment connected acceptable up.

Samsung is expected to marque the ‌iPhone‌'s representation sensor with a three-stack design, which enables higher pixel density and improved low-light show by vertically stacking aggregate sensor layers. Stacked sensor architecture besides allows for faster readout speeds, reduced powerfulness consumption, and higher dynamic range. This manufacturing process has not antecedently been deployed astatine a commercialized scale.

Earlier this month, Samsung notified the metropolis of assembly of Austin of its volition to walk $19 cardinal connected its Austin facility. The caller representation sensor accumulation enactment is expected to statesman cognition successful March astatine the earliest.

The caller sensor is believed to beryllium destined for the iPhone 18, which is expected to motorboat successful the archetypal fractional of 2027. Apple reportedly reached a deal with Samsung successful August for proviso of the component.

This volition beryllium the archetypal clip Apple volition determination distant from Sony arsenic the sole supplier for ‌‌iPhone‌‌ representation sensors and marque the constituent successful the United States. Today, Sony is the sole supplier of ‌‌iPhone‌‌ representation sensors; they are produced successful Japan and delivered via TSMC.
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