Out of control
By Matthew Hoy on June 20, 2006
The whole megapixel one-upsmanship thing is just getting out of hand.
Dalsa Semiconductor has fabricated an image sensor with more than 111 million pixels. The company claims the 4 x 4-inch charge-coupled device, configured as 10,560 x 10,560 pixels, is the world's highest-resolution image sensor and the first to break the 100 million-pixel barrier.
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With 9 micron pixels, it should make one hell of an astronomical widefield imaging chip, if nothing else. Whether it costs anything less than the moon is another question, however...