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Sony make the vast majority of phone CMOS sensors, including the one in the iPhone. It's an economy of scale thing - I'm pretty sure they developed EXMOR on-sensor analogue to digital conversion for mobile and then applied it to the larger formats to greater affect.
That's why Sony sensors (used by Fuji, Nikon, Ricoh/Pentax) have had such a massive advantage over Canon for the last few years in terms of low iso dynamic range; they were using processes and designs scaled-up from very small, efficient sensors.
Canon have only just now implemented a similar ADC architecture, having always done it off-sensor previously.
Now it looks like Samsung have licenced some stuff from Canon so phones are absolutely the main driving force behind technical progress in 'proper cameras'.