2 Year Balance: Some Gone, Some Came

To put Magnachip news into time perspective, below is the 2-year history of companies getting in and out of image sensor business (acquisitions not counted).

Out of business, together with my personal guess why:

Magnachip - failed to meet business objectives year after year
IBM - too expensive
CMOX - no sufficient differentiation
Biomorphic - key customer loss


Status not clear, may be defunct:

Newport Imaging
Peripheral Imaging (part of AMI, now ON Semi)
CI Sensor

Newcomers, in no particular order:

BYD (China)
Rosnes (Japan)
CMOSIS (Belgium) - custom design
Caeleste (Belgium) - custom design
ePhocus (San Diego and Hawaii)
HiMax Imaging (US and Taiwan)
Hynix (Korea)
Lumiense Photonics (Canada) - custom design
SETI (Korea)
Rui Xin (China)
Harvest Imaging (Belgium) - teaching and training

So, it looks to me that over the last two years more companies have come than gone.