Micron Technology Inc., best known for producing computer memory chips but present in the automotive electronics market since about four years ago, has released a new image sensor chip for automotive cameras, earlier this week. The chip, called MT9V125, is designed to be incorporated into cameras which various OEMs are expected design into new 2007 model year vehicles.
Although the market for automotive cameras is relatively small at the moment with about 1.5m rear-view cameras shipped a year in Japan, Curtis Stith, director of marketing for emerging markets in Micron Technology's Imaging Group, says, "There are a number of potential applications that lead us to an analyst forecast of four to ten cameras per car by 2015."
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