# Aptina

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Aptina Imaging Corporation was a company that sold CMOS imaging products. Its CMOS sensors were used in the Nikon V1 (10.1 MP, CX format, 16.9x17.9 mm), Nikon J1, and Nikon V2. By 2009, Aptina had a 16% share of the CMOS image sensors market, with revenue estimated at $671 million. The company was acquired in 2014 by ON Semiconductor

## Key facts

## Overview

Aptina Imaging Corporation was a company that sold CMOS imaging products. Its CMOS sensors were used in the Nikon V1 (10.1 MP, CX format, 16.9x17.9 mm), Nikon J1, and Nikon V2. By 2009, Aptina had a 16% share of the CMOS image sensors market, with revenue estimated at $671 million. The company was acquired in 2014 by ON Semiconductor

## History

Aptina Imaging was created as a spin-off of Micron Technology's Image Sensor Division in March 2008. Aptina was still an independent division within Micron until July 2009, when Aptina became an independent, privately held company, being partially sold to a group including TPG and Riverwood Capital. ON Semiconductor Corporation completed the acquisition of Aptina Imaging in August 2014.

## Milestones

2014 – ON Semiconductor completes acquisition of Aptina Imaging 2014 – Aptina Imaging has bought color filter array processing and imager probe assets from Micron Technology, and close to 100 Micron employees will join Aptina's manufacturing facility in Nampa, Idaho on Aug. 4. 2011 – Shipped 2nd billionth sensor 2009 – Aptina spins out as an independent privately held company 2008 – Shipped 1 billionth sensor 2008 – Micron Technology launches Aptina: a CMOS image sensor division 2006 – Micron Imaging Group acquires Avago Technologies' image sensor business 1992–1995 – JPL team invented CMOS active pixel sensor technology

## Products

Predecessors of Aptinas products were CMOS image sensors of Photobit and Micron technology. Photobit was founded in 1995 and acquired by Micron in 2001, which started selling its own image sensors a year later. The first commercially available sensors of Photobit were the PB-159 in 1998 and the PB-100 in 1999. Micron showcased a 1.75-μm CMOS pixel sensor in 2005 and launched it in 2007. Micron also developed and built a prototype of a 1.4-μm CMOS pixel sensor by 2007. The Nikon 1 series used Aptina sensors with dual conversion gain sensors, allowing users to choose from a mode with high dynamic range (DR) but low ISO, and a low light mode with low read noise but also less DR. In 2014 the company started offering a 1-Inch 4K Image Sensor for security and surveillance cameras.

## Awards

2011 – AET (China) Best Product Award Winner: AR0331 2010 – Winner, EDN Innovation Award: MT9H004 2009 – Finalist, EDN Innovation Award: MT9M033 2008 – Takayanagi Award: Presented to Dr. Junichi Nakamura 2008 – Best Supplier Award: Foxconn

## External links

Aptina web-site (with ON Semiconductor) Aptina Corporate Fact Sheet

## Sources

- Aptina · Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=28958968

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