Samsung wants to break Sony's exclusive hold on iPhone camera sensors

A new report backs up claims that Samsung is developing a rival to Sony's iPhone camera sensor, and adds more details about how exactly this could benefit buyers of the iPhone 18 in 2026.Render of a possible future — and slimmer — iPhoneSony makes the camera sensors in the iPhone and that's one of the very few times that a component is made by a sole supplier. It's been rumored before that Samsung wants to break that exclusivity, but now a new leak claims to have details of how Samsung hopes to beat Sony by producing a better sensor.Exclusive: Samsung is currently developing a '3-layer stacked' image sensor in a PD-TR-Logic configuration for Apple. Rumor Score: