Perhaps there has been little progress in the CCD world in the recent years because companies were putting increasingly more resources somewhere else? But who would really know?
While it is certainly interesting to see changes in technology, I just hope the shift from CCD to CMOS, while being largely driven by HD video recording "of everything" mania, will not result in replacing CCDs with cheaper, faster yet inferior for low light applications technology.
But it seems to me that true progress comes not by the development of the old, but by revolutionary and sometimes radical changes