&gt; Making the components smaller doesn&#x27;t mean you have to make the sensor area smaller, you can just put more of them in.<p>It sounds, mildly put, different to all I know, so much that I fully doubt the validity of claim, as long as the subject are the camera sensors. My argument is exactly that making the transistors smaller benefits the CPUs but making the pixels smaller makes the sensors worse. The less pixels in the same area, the more sensitivity. So what do you mean can be &quot;put more of&quot; &quot;in&quot;?<p>I&#x27;ve also linked to an example. The Canon&#x27;s camera has one pixel of 19μm. The latest Intel CPUs use lithography of 14 nm, that&#x27;s more than 1000 times smaller in one dimension. Which means that the difference in useful area gained by reducing the frame of the fixed-area pixel as the effect of the lower-nm lithography brings extremely little (for example, twice as thin frame (e.g. 28 nm to 14 nm step) brings just 0.2% more photons in the same area).<p>Do you have any link?