Tim Cook paid tribute to Sony's long term partnership with Apple in creating cutting-edge camera sensors for successive iPhone models for over a decade.
During his visit to Sony's camera development facility in Japan, Cook thanked the team at the facility for showing him around and acknowledged the company's successful partnership with Apple.
Close followers of the company's supply chain have known for years that Apple uses Sony camera hardware in its phones.
Sony's camera sensor was reportedly used by Apple in the iPhone 6 and subsequent hardware teardowns by the likes of iFixit have identified components from Sony.
Cook's message suggests that Apple's partnership with Sony is still strong, and that the Japanese company's contributions to future Apple products are already known. Next year's iPhone 15 models will be equipped with Sony's newest " state of the art " image sensors, according to a November report.
Compared to standard sensors, Sony's image sensor doubles the saturation signal in eachpixel, allowing it to capture more light to cut down on under exposure and over exposure. Even with strong back lighting, it is possible to better photograph a person's face.
We’ve been partnering with Sony for over a decade to create the world’s leading camera sensors for iPhone. Thanks to Ken and everyone on the team for showing me around the cutting-edge facility in Kumamoto today. pic.twitter.com/462SEkUbhi — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) December 13, 2022
The periscope telephoto lens that Apple is working on will allow for up to 10x optical zoom in the iPhone 15 Pro, which will allow it to compete with some of the newer, more expensive phones on the market. The Wide camera that Apple considers the main camera of the iPhone is likely to use the Sony image sensor technology.
Sony is expected to give Apple a micro-OLED display for its first-generation mixed-reality headset.
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