OmniVision Technologies will supply from 40 to 45 million 5 Megapixel sensors to Apple during 2010, probably going to equip the next generation of iPhones. The news was brought by DigiTimes, and those are CMOS (CIS) sensors. The true manufacturing will start in Taiwan on the first trimester of 2010.

If history should repeat itself, with OmniVision that receives a big order (last year, 3.2 Megapixel sensors), we should see a more powerful iPhone around June. We’ll have to wait and see.

The rumors from AppleInsider seem to confirm that Apple will start sending the first Mac OS X 10.6.3 beta to developers in the next few days. There aren’t official release dates, but it seems the waiting won’t be too long. The release of the next builds for the update (codename that starts with 10Dxx, since the 10Cxx was for the 10.6.2) should come this week, at least.

When the Mac OS X 10.6.2 was launched last month, the beta stage only lasted a month, but there was urgency in correcting a dangerous bug with guest accounts that made it possible to delete the user’s home, and implement the native support to Magic Mouse in Snow Leopard. It’s possible, thus, that the new update will be ready around the same timeframe. Apple has kept a quick schedule with Snow Leopard, in overall: also with the Mac OS X 10.6.1, two weeks separated the beta from the official launch.

Intel is preparing to launch their new mobile platform processors. We’re talking about the lines that are currently called Arrandale and Calpella, and one of the features on these new processors is the integration of a graphic CPU. Apple has clearly manifested their disagreement on that choice and has already started to ask for processors that do not feature an integrated GPU.

The reason behind Apple’s decision is simple: they want to be free to install nVidia or ATI components, that currently present better performances thanks to the great compatibility obtained with OpenCL (one of the technologies that are currently featured on Snow Leopard). Currently, the problem is only seen on mobile processors, hence, all the Apple products that use it: the next Mac Mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro.