Fighting the fps war

Damian Koh | May 19, 2006

Dust from the resolution war between manufacturers has barely settled and now another storm is brewing. Could that be a competition of which camera has the most frames-per-second rate?

According to Michael Kanellos from CNET News.com, Micron Technology is coming out with an imaging chip for compact digicams that will allow users to fire away 10 8-megapixel shots a second, or 30 2-megapixel pictures a second.

However, this 8-megapixel chip won't see the light of day until the first half of 2007; and it'll be some time before competition appears. In addition to a high-speed burst rate, this new chip is also capable of capturing video in 720p format--the entry-level version of high definition.

What we'd really like to see is the employment of this chip on digital SLRs.

Full report here.