In December 2011 the Chinese company Superpix announced a new 12MP CMOS sensor which can be used in DSLR. So the cheaper Chinese DSLR will march on DSLR market as Chinese TV does.
Chinese media report: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjgwNDIxOTY4.html
Official website: http://www.superpix.com.cn/En/index.asp
Superpix Micro Technology Co., Ltd is a high-tech company established by returned oversea scholars in 2004 at Zhongguancun Science Park. The company’s core techniques are super pixel signal processing technique (SuperPix®) and super image processing technique (SuperImage®), and the company owns the fully intellectual property of them. Based on these core techniques, the company already applied dozens of patents, and built Superpix® patents protection system.
The company developed a board range of high performance image sensor and relative image process chip, and most of them achieved domestic advanced level. Up to now, there are over 50 million chips had been sold. And based on customers’ comments, the products are stable and reliable. The latest 12MP CMOS image sensor is the very first domestic product beyond 10MP, which represents the highest level of that field in china. The company has been appraised “100 Innovative Experiment Enterprises” by ministry of science and technology, and won the honor of “A Level Credit Outstanding Corporation”. The company also assumed national science programs, for instance, “863” project - Chinese National Programs for High Technology Research and Development, “Electronic Development Fund” program, and so on.