[ACCount37]

Have you even looked at this datasheet? This is one of those "industrial" sensors I was talking about.

It's not CMOS. It doesn't even have a digital interface. It has basically nothing in common with the kind of image sensors you'd find in a flagship smartphone, like Samsung ISOCELL. It's a very specialized device made for a very short list of uses, none of which are in consumer electronics.

Most sensors you'll see there are similar. Not all of them are as hideously exotic as the one you linked, but very few of them are the SKUs you'd find in a smartphone. The closest thing to a smartphone camera sensor would probably be STMicroelectronics VD56G3, which is similar to VD56G0 that Apple uses in iPhone FaceID. And even that is a specialized structured light NIR piece.

[amelius]

Ok, I'm still curious who the audience is of websites like:

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/image-sensor/

[ACCount37]

Probably just the tech press and the rare industry clients who aren't already in touch through other channels. They sure aren't selling to hobbyists.

The contact data is real, but you'd have to at least look like a decent sized company to get anywhere with it.

[amelius]

Well, it is all very disappointing. This is what integrating supply chains brings us, I guess.