Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted in a recent tweet that the Cupertino company has used Sony image sensors in the iPhone for over a decade.
“We’ve been partnering with Sony for over a decade to create the world’s leading camera sensors for iPhone,” Cook tweeted and thanked Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida for showing him around the Kumamoto facility.
Apple has for long remained mum about the specifics of the hardware components that go into each iPhone, only giving the specs of each camera such as resolution and aperture instead of the specific components used.
In 2011, Sony CEO Howard Stringer “accidentally” revealed that his company would be supplying Apple with sensors for the iPhone 5.
Stringer told the Wall Street Journal that an earthquake at the time had damaged 15 of Sony’s factories in Japan and that a camera sensor made in one of the plants was on its way to Apple.
