It's good to hear that people/companies in Canada can up & decide to develop such ambitious visual sensor chips, and be in a market that can sustain such development.
But since this is an online thread for average camera users (well, the remaining more affluent ones at least) I am wondering if you are considering leveraging your considerable sensor R&D to also make bigger & better sensors which could be used for future cameras for our use? There are still aggressive existing camera companies, such as Sigma, that are still trying to develop competitive cameras and may be a perfect partner for you to supply your advanced sensors to. Then they could do better, you could do better, and we could enjoy even better cameras than exist now.
You shouted out "TRY AND BEAT THAT LMCO & RAYTHEON!!!!!!". So now I challenge you to "PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS!!!!!!". Make some great sensors that make their way into a camera good enough for us to buy!
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Already did that!
There's a Pro-Level Medium Format Combined Stills and Video Camera with a 56 mm x 42 mm Global Shutter sensor at 50.3 megapixels (8192 x 6144 pixels) at 16-bits per channel 4:4:4:4 RGBA RAW with a 4:3 aspect ratio used for stills that also records DCI 8K (8192 x 4320 pixels) video at 16-bits per RGBA/YCbCrA (64-bit colour) at up to FULL 4:4:4:4 RAW 60 fps (up to 240 fps if you lower the colour depth to 4:2:2) that is coming out soon enough. Both will come out with a very nice f/1.0 50 mm cinema prime lens (i.e. YES! it's an F/1.0 with proper iris and focus rings, T-stop divisions AND no breathing) as part of the above prices! The larger locking-mount sizes allow much faster lenses to made MUCH EASIER AND CHEAPER than on EF, RF or E-mounts!
It has Intraframe and Interframe Video and Still Wavelet Compression and common output file formats and frame sizes at various user-specified colour bit-depths and frames rates. It will be priced at $8888 US. There is a 2nd camera that is the Full Frame version where the only difference from the above is the sensor and lens mount size. It will be set at $5555 US. Both cameras have the fancy handgrips and swivel OLED DCI 4K live view screen AND digital OLED viewfinder which will work VERY WELL for pro-level sports, action, wildlife, portrait, landscape AND do high-end pro-level video with all the image monitoring goodies and video/audio/data inputs/outputs you could want and need!
AND THERE ARE ALSO
Two IP-68/Mil-Spec 810-G rugged form-factor large-sensor 8K Super-Smartphones where one has a 2/3rds inch sensor and the other has an APS-C sized sensor on the back. (Smaller 12 and 16 megapixel ones on the front). They have DCI 4K 120 Hz OLED touchscreens with high-level stills and video capabilities and lots of RAM memory and onboard storage (and extra dual storage cards and multiple USB 3.1 connectors for add-on drive space) that are GREAT for games, apps, video, audio, realtime data, etc.
AND FINALLY THERE ARE
A series of desktop supercomputer systems coming out with One to Sixteen Processors on the motherboards where each 128-bits wide combined CPU/GPU/DSP chip has 1024 single-threaded 128-bits wide cores (i.e. 1024 threads) with onboard array-processor 128-bits wide Signed and Unsigned Integer, Floating Point, Fixed Point values processing and 4-bit/8-bits per number BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) math acceleration. At 575 TeraFLOPS PER CHIP, these are the fastest desktop CPUs ever made BLOWING AWAY every Intel, AMD, Samsung, ARM, UltraSPARC, MIPS, IBM Power-9/10 etc cpu out there!
All this is coming out soon enough!
YUP! We put our money where our mouth is!
And we designed, coded and manufactured it ALL right here in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (i.e. fully ITAR-free!)
AND for the kicker, we do have an in-house-built SSTO (look it up!) for our own imaging caopabilities. These take the largest digital photos ever at 128k by 128k resolution at 64-bit colour RGB + Radar Distance pixel (i.e. 17+ gigapixels) AND YOU HERE ON CANONRUMORS will get the imaging gear and tech benefit of some eccentric 50+ megamillionaire who keeps under the radar and keeps funding our crazy research and development antics! (I would say he is the Canadian version of Jim Jannard who founded Oakley and Red Camera, but is a LOT MORE PRIVATE and secretive in his projects --- He's not a multi-billionaire, but he has enough cash to hire the best local all-Canadian computer systems, aerospace and imaging talent around!)
It's a SWEET DEAL for me --- I designed and coded the fancy Wavelet codec and YOU get to see its results !!!
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