Sony makes $20 every time an iPhone 6 is sold, is by far the largest camera sensor supplier in the world

Sony makes $20 every time an iPhone 6 is sold, is by far the largest camera sensor supplier in the world:

Sony's smartphone division may be struggling to remain relevant, but another business unit of the company is actually in its heyday: the imaging department.

A lengthy Wall Street Journal article, citing a study by Techno Systems Research, makes it clear that Sony isn't just moving a healthy amount of image sensors, specifically ones for smartphones, but it's actually the market leader — by a long shot. According to the findings, Sony held the whopping 40% of the entire camera sensors market in 2014, trailed by US, California-based OmniVision (15.7%) and South Korea's Samsung ...