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Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by lizknope on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:10PM (#23645735)
Some of Nikon's sensors are probably made by Tower Jazz.

https://petapixel.com/2020/06/05/towerjazz-hints-that-nikon-...

Nikon has also used Toshiba in the past but probably 80% of Nikon's DSLR sensors were made by Sony.

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Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by slantyyz on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:36PM (#23646018)
The Nikon 1 line, with exception of the J5 (which used Sony's sensor), used sensors made by Aptina.

Aptina's sensors were pretty spectacular from an AF perspective in that they had phase-shift AF on-sensor in 2011. The AF was as close as you could get to DSLRs on a mirrorless camera for quite some time. It's just too bad that Nikon came up with a weird set of 1st generation Nikon 1 cameras that made no sense to anybody.

IIRC, Aptina ended up cross-licensing their patents to Sony.

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