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He is not the right caliber for the Design Center ...

2026-05-22T18:42:53.778+03:00

He is not the right caliber for the Design Center Manager role...

And 11 years later! ams sold what was 2015 Cmosis ...

2026-05-19T17:35:37.378+03:00

And 11 years later! ams sold what was 2015 Cmosis again for 40M. Inflation adjusted quite a loss. Meanwhile what grew from Cmosis legacy went public recently quite successfully...

I understand yoir objection, but it arises from us...

2026-05-18T22:38:26.458+03:00

I understand yoir objection, but it arises from using first-order sanity-preserving mathematics.
In second-order Hilbert topology, the measured image is not reconstructed from photons, but from the cohomology class of photons that the detector would have preferred to see.
This is pre-validated computational luminance.

funny

2026-05-18T17:24:13.535+03:00

funny

It seems you are not up to date with the latest an...

2026-05-18T17:17:18.996+03:00

It seems you are not up to date with the latest and most cutting edge technology. Although counterintuitive, this phenomenon is entirely consistent with modern panendermic ultrafast imaging theory, particularly in systems employing temporal inverse semi-boloid reconstruction. Negative SNR should therefore not be interpreted as “less than no signal,” but rather as evidence that the imaging manifold has entered a pre-luminous computational state in which anticipated photons contribute to the measured spurving statistics prior to physical detection.

"we achieve a negative SNR that captures phot...

2026-05-18T09:43:23.708+03:00

"we achieve a negative SNR that captures photons before they even arrive"
what does that even mean?

The reconstruction latency is actually a feature. ...

2026-05-13T12:22:17.822+03:00

The reconstruction latency is actually a feature. by over-sampling the noise floor’s sparsity, we achieve a negative SNR that captures photons before they even arrive.
It’s not a bandwidth bottleneck, it’s just temporal aliasing disguised as a budget constraint

If you integrate a very short pulse of duration \t...

2026-05-12T18:00:19.478+03:00

If you integrate a very short pulse of duration \tau over T_exp >> \tau, with various delays D_i < tau, then the integrals will be equal for all D_i.

You end up with NxN identical images after the multiplexer ... there is no way to recover anything.

The only way to end up with different images would be an overlap of the short pulse window with the start of the exposure window T_0, or the trailing edge T_0+T_exp ...ignoring pixel to pixel jitter of this edge ...

I still vividly remember the day when one of the a...

2026-05-12T11:58:47.625+03:00

I still vividly remember the day when one of the ams board members showed up at our office and seriously asked whether one of the CMOSIS sensors could be used in consumer mass market products. At first I thought it was a joke. Then I realized it was not. To this day, I honestly don’t think the people at ams ever fully understood what kind of technology they had actually acquired. In the end, they somehow managed the impressive corporate magic trick of turning a 220 million acquisition into something worth 40 million.

https://www.biospace.com/b-ams-b-acquires-b-cmosis...

2026-05-12T08:04:31.671+03:00

https://www.biospace.com/b-ams-b-acquires-b-cmosis-b-for-235-8-million
ams Acquires CMOSIS for $235.8 Million in 2015.

40M https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2026051...

2026-05-11T15:38:13.532+03:00

40M https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260511959181/en/indie-to-Acquire-CMOS-Image-Sensor-Product-Line-from-ams-OSRAM

2, 3x value? That must be a joke or wishful thinki...

2026-05-06T18:23:19.688+03:00

2, 3x value? That must be a joke or wishful thinking, based on dearly needed cash to pay off debt...
2, 3x would be that times 220M €. Really?
No industrial sensors came out of ams Osram since long, CSG line, the only "new", not present in any camera that I can find.
Unless one wants to see Mira as an industrial sensors, but where are those in the market.

Also, what do you think the Gpixel GMAX line is, other than mainly Global Shutter for Industrial applications.

The only thruth in your statement seems that Gpixel captured the scientific market, but that happend long time ago already.

I think ams Osram failed at the acquisition of cmosis by betting on high volume applications (Mira) which did not succeed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinnialee/2026/04/21/...

2026-05-06T07:00:01.837+03:00

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinnialee/2026/04/21/chinas-newest-tech-billionaire-made-his-fortune-from-developing-image-sensor-chips-for-robotics/
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! Very few people in CIS startups end up being billionaires!

While Gpixel has done an incredible job capturing ...

2026-05-05T12:54:48.656+03:00

While Gpixel has done an incredible job capturing the "scientific" market, ams used CMOSIS to capture the "industrial" reality. By integrating CMOSIS, ams moved from being a component supplier to a solution provider, proving that their 2016 vision was just right. The imaging business within ams OSRAM is now conservatively valued at double or even triple its original investment.

How do they get back the temporal information? I.e...

2026-05-04T08:27:28.986+03:00

How do they get back the temporal information? I.e. go reverse on equation 2 of their paper?

Every sub-image of the sensor captures the time-integrated information, which erases all information about the ultrafast dynamics. They give no explanation about that part at all.

Seems like a bogus paper...

This is such an ignorant comment. Just because two...

2026-05-01T14:28:45.314+03:00

This is such an ignorant comment. Just because two VPs left OV doesn't mean that they don't have amazingly talented staff. Clearly you're strongly biased.

One should said Dr. Wang didn't leave empty-he...

2026-04-29T16:55:21.090+03:00

One should said Dr. Wang didn't leave empty-headed...
The rapid growth / innovation seemingly accelerated quite a bit when former CMOSIS people joined either Gpixel China or Gpixel in Antwerp, Belgium.

When Xinyang Wang left CMOSIS after just four year...

2026-04-29T11:36:51.789+03:00

When Xinyang Wang left CMOSIS after just four years to found Gpixel in 2012, one could say he didn’t leave empty‑handed. But in a twist of poetic justice, this turned out to be a happy coincidence: Gpixel went on to innovate at full speed, while CMOSIS, after being absorbed by ams, seemed to misplace not only its entrepreneurial spirit but also its innovation roadmap. In hindsight, it almost feels like CMOSIS’s best contribution to the future was exporting its know‑how before it was lovingly bureaucratized out of existence.

OmniVision’s distinguished foreign executives have...

2026-04-28T17:28:20.262+03:00

OmniVision’s distinguished foreign executives have already departed the company. SmartSens’s CEO is an American citizen. Gpixel stands as the sole company to have successfully achieved internationalization.

That's funny. Great you have so much believe i...

2026-04-28T10:55:45.008+03:00

That's funny. Great you have so much believe in your employer, or maybe you're trying to boost your stocks. But there already are a few very big established Chinese image sensor vendors. Surely, Gpixel has a great team. But so does OMNIVISION, or SmartSens. And they won't budge easily. Time may prove you right or wrong - but nontheless your comment is entirely unsubstantiated. So unless you have actual insights to share, maybe keep your fanfare to yourself...

Gpixel is poised to emerge as the preeminent CMOS ...

2026-04-25T16:02:02.009+03:00

Gpixel is poised to emerge as the preeminent CMOS image sensor provider in China in the very near future.

Why is this Blog not posting this on the its main ...

2026-04-20T15:28:22.978+03:00

Why is this Blog not posting this on the its main page as news?
Gpixel IPO + Leica collaboration surely is newsworthy?

https://gpixel.com/en/details_233.html

2026-04-17T11:45:33.562+03:00

https://gpixel.com/en/details_233.html

100 million Yuan is equivalent to 15 million USD. ...

2026-04-16T15:09:46.534+03:00

100 million Yuan is equivalent to 15 million USD. I suggest you fix the article.

Probably because almost 0 technical info on site.

2026-04-13T17:14:23.143+03:00

Probably because almost 0 technical info on site.