Traditional cameras use either charge-coupled devices (CCDs) or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chips, which capture images on a grid of millions of pixels.

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The watch contains a 25, 000-pixel complementary metal oxide semiconductor sensor and 1 megabyte of memory, which can store up to 80 images at a time.

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The supposed Qualcomm default in "digital RF" is entirely fictional, as Qualcomm has moved to all CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) integrated devices before TI, and RF is intrinsically analog on the front end.

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Apart from the arrival of less pricey full-frame digital SLRs, the other recent development that has impressed your correspondent is the way imaging chips are migrating from CCD (charge-coupled device) technology to CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), used widely in the computer industry.

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