Sigma Foveon sensor will be ready in 2022

From PetaPixel:

Sigma’s CEO Kazuto Yamaki has revealed that the company’s efforts in
making a full-frame Foveon sensor are on track to be finished by the end
of the year. 

Sigma’s Foveon sensors use a proprietary three-layer structure in which red, green, and blue pixels each have their own full layer. In traditional sensors, the three pixels share a single layer in a mosaic arrangement and the camera “fills in” missing colors by examining neighboring pixels.

Since each pixel of a photo is recorded in three colors, the resulting photo should be sharper with better color accuracy and fewer artifacts.

The release had been delayed on at least two occasions in the past due to technical challenges, once in 2020 and again in 2021. The initial announcement about this sensor was made back in 2018. In February 2022, Yamaki indicated that the company was in stage 2 of testing, and the final third stage will involve mass-production testing.