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Tim Reynolds on how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
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Zebra buys Matrox Imaging l Cognex tops $1bn in 2021 l Arrival of ST and Sony to transform SWIR market, Yole says l News from EMVA and UKIVA
VDMA on Russia 10
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
Intel-Tower deal 11
As Intel buys Tower, Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms
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Leader Greg Blackman
All change T
wo company acquisitions have altered the landscape of the machine vision market recently.
Te first, and the one that has a direct impact, is Zebra Technologies buying Matrox Imaging. Te second, where the impact is a little more unknown, is Intel buying Tower Semiconductor. Matrox Imaging is one of the
oldest machine vision companies out there, while Zebra is a slightly larger technology firm that announced its arrival on the industrial vision scene last year when it bought Adaptive Vision and released a line of industrial imagers. Te addition of Matrox Imaging’s technology – a heritage that stretches back to the 1970s and includes the established Matrox Imaging Library software, complete with deep learning capabilities, along with 3D cameras, frame grabbers, and vision controllers – will certainly bolster Zebra’s machine vision capabilities and make it a much more significant force in the vision market. Te other acquisition, Intel buying
Tower to strengthen its foundry services, could be even more significant because it affects various industrial image sensor firms. Outside of Sony, many fabless sensor firms rely on Tower, companies like Gpixel, Teledyne e2v and Teledyne Dalsa. According to Yole Développement, one quarter of industrial CMOS image sensors are manufactured in Tower fabs. Tere’s more on the Matrox Imaging
acquisition on page 4, while analysis of the Tower deal can be found on page 11. We will wait to see what impact these deals will have on the vision sector.
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