Chipworks Identifies Sony Sensor Inside iPhone 4S

Chipworks' teardown of iPhone 4S reveals that its primary 8MP sensor is made by Sony. Still, there is a chance that the sensor is dual sourced and Omnivision might appear in other iPhone samples or at later time. Omnivision shares dropped by 9.4% after Chipworks made its report available.

iPhone 4S primary camera module

Update: iSuppli reports that iPhone 4S has a five-lens camera module, a first in any smartphone analyzed by the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis service. Previously, the state-of-art has been a four-lens approach.

Update #2: Oppenheimer published report on likelihood to see Omnivision sensors in future iPhones.

Update #3: Chipworks published reverse engineering report of Sony sensor. The chip is identified as IMX-145, 8 MP, 1.4um pixel pitch, BSI CMOS image sensor.