Image Sensor Technology Roadmap

Explore image sensor innovations through Q3 2025 with insights into technology, design trends, and market directions across smartphones, automotive, and machine vision.

The Image Sensor Roadmap Update provides an overview of the technical advances and market trends for image sensors through Q3 2025. These provide insights based on TechInsights' reverse engineering expertise related to pixel pitch, die size, active silicon thickness, back-side processing, and enabling technology for multi-layer stacking and interconnect. The trends address both the pixel layer and the image signal processing layer. The trends also document that there have been specific technology and market driven decisions on the design choices in the specifications for different markets across and within the area of smartphones, automotive, machine vision, and surveillance applications. Based on these trends, predictions are made for formats and decision points for products going forward.