If you know nothing else about us, know that were one of the worlds leading imaging-solutions company providing CMOS image sensors, image processors and peerless technical and business acumen to customers around the ......If you know nothing else about us, know that were one of the worlds leading imaging-solutions company providing CMOS image sensors, image processors and peerless technical and business acumen to customers around the globe. That is a pretty bold statement right? It might be, coming from another company. But we’re the synthesis of foundational CMOS image sensor technology, stunning innovation, and second-to-none manufacturing quality, and we’re powered by people who are technically wise, visually-oriented, strategy focused, and utterly devoted to creating beautiful and accurate images. You probably own an Aptina product. We serve all of the major mobile handset OEMs and module integrators. We have design wins with virtually every PC camera manufacturer. We’re the leading supplier of automotive CMOS imagers, and we continue to collaborate with OEMs and innovators to guide technology in that industry. Our solutions are driving wide-spread CMOS adoption in mass-market cameras and video recorders. And we continually seek out opportunities in new markets—like next-generation IP surveillance systems—where we can make a significant contribution. Our legacy includes the NASA scientists who first developed active pixel sensor technology and is built on Micron’s revolutionary semiconductor process technology. We embody values and hold to a philosophy that is customer facing and success driven. Want to know what makes us tick? Want to know how we became one of the worlds leading imaging solutions companies? Read on. PhilosophyWe’re technologists. We’re market-driven. We’re imaging.We believe we’re the world’s foremost imaging-solutions company. We believe in providing great imaging solutions and providing great service and support. We’re focused on enabling our customers to capture, analyze, and render the clearest and most vibrant images possible regardless of application, form factor, resolution, or frame rate. We help make beautiful and accurate images and video the world over. We’re obsessed with imaging. We love just plain talking about what makes a great picture. This is our purpose, our ethos. We’re Technologists. We’re ablaze with innovation and inspiration. Exceptional pixels are our foundation, the basis for our best-in-class CMOS image sensors. Analog readout and image digitization expertise enables our designs to provide accurate pixel data at scorching fast frame rates while consuming little power. Proven imaging processing capabilities allow our solutions to render visual data in clear and vibrant ways. Put simply, we specialize in the creation and use of technical means to acquire, assay, and afford quality imaging solutions to and for our customers. We’re Market-Driven. We research, study, and understand the markets and applications we service. We reach out to our customers, asking questions, listening for answers, and developing strategic imaging solutions which are effective, easy to implement, and high-quality. Our thorough understanding of markets and applications gives our customers a competitive advantage. We’re Imaging. We’re solely focused on digital visual imaging. It is our business, our expertise. Our overall system design comprehension helps us integrate our technological innovation, love for the visual, and market strategy in a way that provides our customers with the foremost imaging solutions in the world. CommitmentsAt Aptina, were committed to values, not rah-rah human resources or public relations propaganda. For us, values are the ideals, attitudes, ethics, and actions that we collectively embrace and for which we have an affinity. Our values are those things we know are important to our success and to our customers success. And were unimpeachably committed to our customers and to the business values that benefit them. Innovation We value researching, studying, and experimenting in order to create new imaging devices and process software. We call this value innovation. From our world-leading pixel design to our imaging processing prowess and our system design expertise, it’s Aptina innovation that gives our customers–you–a competitive advantage in the marketplace as seen with our introduction of the first 10MP CMOS image sensor for point-and-shoot cameras (MT9J001), and the industrys first 5MP SOC with 1/4" format (MT9P111). As an ideal, innovation is the spark that drives us. It’s the desire to improve and grow even though we have perhaps the best image sensors in the world. As an attitude, innovation makes us unstoppable. There’s not a technical or business challenge we can’t overcome with innovation. As an ethic, innovation governs our choices, leading us through experimentation and research to conceive brilliant new imaging solutions. At the bottom line, we value innovation because it allows us to provide our customers with the most technically advanced imaging solutions available. These innovative solutions enable our customers to build in more features, reduce system costs, and in many cases gain a competitive advantage over similar systems that are no