Apple iPhone 13 Pro Teardown | TechInsights

Figure 8. Apple iPhone 13 Pro Rear Camera XRay

Figure 9. Apple iPhone 13 Pro Rear Camera Die Photo

For the iPhone 13 Pro, the rear Wide camera incorporates a new CIS Die with a pixel-pitch of 1.9 µm, up from 1.4 µm pixel in the iPhone 12 Pro. This represents an 84% increase in pixel-pitch and active array area, and the largest expected enhancement of low light sensitivity for the iPhone 13 series. This new Wide cam Die (likely in use in the iPhone 13 Pro Max as well), is the largest Image Sensor in the iPhone 13 lineup, having a Die area of just under 62 mm2. It also incorporates the same masked PDAF approach used in their earlier image sensors, with equally spaced, left and right alternating masked PDAF pixels in the vertical and horizontal axes of the image array, to facilitate autofocus in the X- and Y-directions.

The Ultrawide rear camera on the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro, as well as the Telephoto camera on the iPhone 13 Pro, appear to utilize the same Die, a newly redesigned image sensor with a 1.0 µm pixel-pitch with an estimated Die area of 26 mm2. This is slightly smaller than their predecessors in the iPhone 12 models, having an estimated Die area of 32 mm2.

The Lidar Camera on the iPhone 13 Pro (and 13 Pro Max) utilize the same SPAD array introduced last year, first on the iPad Pro, then in iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max models. This is somewhat expected, as the 3D rear camera market is still evolving without a dominant use case to drive a design revision.

For the TrueDepth front camera in the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, it utilizes the same CIS Die as previously used in the in iPhone 12 models, a 12 MP 1.0 µm pixel-pitch image sensor.

The front camera module package has been redesigned in the iPhone 13 series so that the IR camera is moved to the right side of the notch, co-located and integrated with the IR projector in one package. The TrueDepth CIS has been moved to the left of the notch, as shown in the figure below, showing a comparison between the front cam modules of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13.

Figure 10. Apple iPhone 12 and 13 Front Camera View