Recently, GalaxyCore announced the successful mass production of multispectral CIS, which gives new capabilities to image sensors. This solution can accurately identify the spectral information in the scene under complex ambient light, improve the color reproduction ability, and enable more intelligent detection applications to meet consumers' more intelligent and refined needs.
Schematic diagram of multispectral CIS
High-pixel product revenue continues to grow
GalaxyCore is one of the world's major suppliers of CMOS image sensors. In addition to CMOS image sensors, it also focuses on the research and development, design and sales of display driver chips. The products are mainly used in mobile phones, and are also widely used in consumer electronics and industrial applications such as tablets, laptops, wearable devices, mobile payments, and automotive electronics.
In terms of performance, GalaxyCore achieved a significant increase in revenue in the first three quarters, an increase of more than 40% year-on-year. This is mainly due to the company's continued expansion in the fields of CMOS image sensors and display driver chips and the increase in market share.
Despite the increase in revenue, GalaxyCore's net profit has declined significantly. This is mainly due to the company's increased investment in research and development, production line depreciation, and the impact of geopolitical factors, global inflation and other factors on consumer electronics market demand. However, from a single quarterly indicator, the company's gross profit margin and net profit margin have declined but improved quarter-on-quarter.
In the first three quarters, GalaxyCore's revenue from products with 13 million pixels or more has reached approximately RMB 1 billion, a 10-fold increase from the less than RMB 100 million in the first three quarters of last year. GalaxyCore has revealed that with the iteration and upgrading of products, the contribution of 32 million and 50 million pixel products to the company's performance will continue to increase.
At the same time, the company is also vigorously promoting 4 million and 8 million pixel products in the non-mobile phone field, which are widely used in smart cities, smart homes, conference systems and other fields. The pixel structure of the product is also constantly optimized and upgraded. Compared with the same period in 2023, the revenue in the first three quarters of 2024 increased by about 13%, and this growth almost all came from products with 4 million pixels and above.
In terms of display driver chip business, the proportion of TDDI (touch and display driver integration) in the product structure has increased significantly, and now exceeds 50%, laying a solid foundation for GalaxyCore to further expand the TDDI market.
Cooperate with mobile phone manufacturers such as vivo and OPPO
It is reported that at the end of October, iQOO launched the strongest flagship mobile phone of the year, iQOO13, at its new product launch conference. Among them, the front camera of iQOO13 uses GalaxyCell™ 0.7μm pixel process with GalaxyCell FPPI patented technology, supports 32 million full-pixel shooting, and can present high-resolution, detailed and colorful images. At night or in dark environments, it supports 4Cell synthesis, equivalent to 1.4μm 8-megapixel output, and can take bright and clear photos.
iQOO is a sub-brand launched by vivo on February 12, 2019, focusing on the high-performance smartphone market. It operates independently of vivo and has its own product line.
In early September, vivo released a new generation of leapfrog new product vivoY300Pro. Its front ultra-clear small wide-angle camera also uses GalaxyCell GC32E1, a single-chip 32-megapixel product, to achieve leading image performance in the same class.
At the end of August, GigaDevice's single-chip 32-megapixel image sensor GC32E2 was used in a number of new mobile phones launched by OPPO, helping the brand upgrade the front and rear main cameras of mainstream models, allowing more users to easily shoot high-definition images with rich details.
About Multispectral CIS
Multispectral CIS is an image sensor solution that can accurately identify spectral information in a scene under complex ambient light. By configuring multi-channel filter materials on the surface of the image sensor, capturing light of different wavelengths, and fusing calculations through back-end algorithms, multispectral CIS can obtain richer and more accurate color information. Its technical features include a wide spectral perception range, which can perceive signals from a wider band from ultraviolet to near-infrared, and improve the perception accuracy of the visible light band; strong color reproduction ability, which can capture more wavelengths of light and achieve more accurate color reproduction; and flexible and compact, which is easy to integrate and apply in various devices. In terms of application areas, multispectral CIS can be used in consumer electronics to correct white balance, improve imaging quality, and can also be used for skin health management, etc. In agricultural testing, multispectral imaging technology can be used to detect the growth status, pests and diseases of crops; in industrial quality control, it can be used to detect material composition and quality, providing higher detection accuracy for quality control.
This paper is from Ulink Media, Shenzhen, China, the organizer of IOTE EXPO (IoT Expo in China)
