Tim Cook officially confirms Apple uses Sony camera sensors

Tim Cook visited the Sony camera sensor facility in Kumamoto. And he confirmed what we already knew: That Apple uses Sony camera sensors. And the next generation iPhone 15 is rumored to feature a brand new Sony sensor:

Sony’s new image sensor roughly doubles the saturation signal level in each pixel compared with conventional sensors. In other words, the sensors can capture more light and reduce overexposure or underexposure in certain settings, enabling a smartphone camera to clearly photograph a person’s face even if the subject is standing against a strong backlight.

The Verge writes:

The report goes on to explain that Sony’s latest sensor tech uses a “new semiconductor architecture which places photodiodes and transistors in separate substrate layers, allowing the sensor to add more photodiodes to the dedicated layer.