CMOS Sensors Eclipse CCD as Main Imaging Device

NE Asia Online 2005 May : CMOS Sensors Eclipse CCD as Main Imaging Device: "CMOS Sensors Eclipse CCD as Main Imaging Device

The capabilities of CMOS sensors are rapidly improving; they are quickly emerging as the most likely image pickup device to replace the CCD.
The interline-transfer (IT) charge-coupled device (CCD) imager, which has ruled supreme for so long, is at last giving way to a successful new challenger: the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager. Sony Corp of Japan, which has consistently been in the forefront of image sensor technology development, including the IT CCD and other imagers, is now seriously pushing its CMOS designs. A host of applications that have always used CCD imagers in the past are now switching over to CMOS."