Every few months, I have to debunk some obvious Nikon BS clickbait rumors spread online. This time we have a Nikon Z7III camera with a… 67MP sensor from TowerJazz. Quoting a non-existent company as the sensor manufacturer is all you need to know about the validity of the specs (TowerJazz was rebranded to Tower Semiconductor […]
Intel is going to acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion – this was officially announced today. It has been speculated that the Nikon Z9 sensor is made by Tower Semiconductor (former Tower Jazz). Here are the details:
I usually do not report on speculation from the Dpreview forums, but this one is interesting and I think it is worth mentioning here – the upcoming Nikon Z9 camera sensor could be produced by Tower Semiconductor (former TowerJazz) and not by Sony. Both threads on Dpreview are very long (see here and here) – […]
In the latest investor and analyst online conference presentation (page 32) Tower Semiconductor (former TowerJazz) presented a table on the current growing markets and in the “High-end photography” category they listed “Growing market share with a leading DSLR maker” with pictures of the Nikon Z50 and the Nikon D7500 cameras:
In their latest earnings call, the sensor manufacturer Tower Jazz (Tower Semiconductor Ltd.) again talked about working with a “leading DSLR camera supplier“:
Here is a quote from the TowerJazz Q1 2018 earnings call transcript where company’s executives talk again about the foundry’s image sensor business and their ongoing relationship with a “leading DSLR camera supplier“: “We are moving according to our plans with the leading DSLR camera supplier and we will start soon as second even more […]
Since the Nikon D850 was announced, some speculation started here in the comment section of the [NR] blog that the D850 sensor was manufactured by the Israeli company TowerJazz. In November last year the CEO of TowerJazz said that “In the digital SLR market we engage with one of the leaders in the world in the development […]
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