Samsung's new ISOCELL sensor features random memory, and shoots at 960fp

With the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+, Samsung has focused on improving the camera. In this aspect, Samsung has unveiled the new sensor ISOCELL Fast 2L3, which includes a special DRAM memory, and has the ability to shoot video at 960 frames per second.



The new ISOCELL Fast 2L3 sensor features a three-layer design. As usual, the first layer consists of pixels that capture light, and the second layer converts it to digital information to be sent to the processor for its processors to be sent in the latter to RAM. Samsung has added a third layer of 512MB random memory, allowing faster read and storage of information from the sensor, faster than the processor.

This enables slow video capture at 960 frames per second. This sensor also has the ability to track motion, so it can start recording slow motion faster than you can. But this sensor also captures better images so that it can transfer all data from the pixel layer to the DRAM layer at a time of 1 / 120th of a second. With this speed, the sensor can take several shots to use to reduce noise, improve the quality of low-light images, or capture better HDR images in daylight.

The ISOCELL Fast 2L3 sensor has a resolution of 12 megapixels and has 1.4μm pixels. It is worth mentioning that this sensor is currently in the stage of mass production. Before concluding, we would like to point out that Samsung used to use a combination of Sony's sensors and its sensors, but they create their own sensors to be identical in performance with the Sony sensors they use.

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