Sony's AI image sensor bakes camera smarts right into the chip

Sony’s camera sensors are already inside many of the high-end smartphones, but its new AI image sensor promises to make things even smarter – and high-end features cheaper, too. The Sony IMX500 not only includes a 12.3-megapixel CMOS capable of 4K resolution video, but a dedicated AI processor that can do machine learning and more. Typically, the image sensor is …