[4] By 2009 year Aptina had a 16% share of the CMOS image sensors market, with revenue estimated at $671 million.
Aptina was still an independent division within Micron until July 2009, when Aptina became an independent, privately held company, being partially sold to a group including TPG and Riverwood Capital.
Predecessors of Aptinas products were CMOS image sensors of Photobit and Micron technology.
Photobit was founded in 1995 and acquired by Micron in 2001, who started selling their own image sensors a year later.
[11] The Nikon 1 series used Aptina sensors with dual conversion gain sensors, allowing users to choose from a mode with high dynamic range (DR) but low ISO, and a low light mode with low read noise but also less DR.[12] In 2014 the company started offering a 1-Inch 4K Image Sensor for security and surveillance cameras.