The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (Enterprise)

Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere - PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in artificially intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two legendary figures who made the personal computer possible; Carver Mead of Caltech, one of the founding fathers of information technology, and Federico Faggin, inventor of the CPU - the chip that runs every computer. George Gilder has covered the wizards of high tech for twenty-five years and has an insider's knowledge of Silicon Valley and the unpredictable mix of genius, drive, and luck that can turn a startup into a Fortune 500 company. 'The Silicon Eye' is a rollicking narrative of some of the smartes - —and most colorful - people on earth and their race to transform an entire industry. THANKS TO THE DIGITAL technology revolution, cameras are everywhere--PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in artificially intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two legendary figures who made the personal computer possible: Carver Mead of Caltech, one of the founding fathers of information technology, and Federico Fagging, inventor of the CPU--the chip that runs every computer. George Gilder has covered the wizards of high tech for twenty-five years and has an insider's knowledge of Silicon Valley and the unpredictable mix of genius, drive, and luck that can turn a startup into a Fortune 500 company. "The Silicon Eye is a rollicking narrative of some of the smartest--and most colorful--people on earth and their race to transform an entire industry Prologue : Who Is Carver Mead? -- Delbrück Bursts In -- The Fourth Camera -- Merrill's View -- The Charged Competition -- Annealing Neurons -- Ff -- Beyond The Silicon Gate -- Tobermory -- The Hopfield Net -- Carverland -- Michelle -- Misha -- Synaptics -- The Analog Perplex -- Seizing The Sword -- The Cat -- Teleology At Oxford -- White Rabbit -- Merrill's Magic -- Lyon's Den Of Many Colors -- Photokina 2000 And Beyond -- Foveon's Disruptive Challenge -- Holy Kammoli! -- Foveon Raw In Vegas -- Epilogue : Camera's End. George Gilder. Includes Index. "George Gilder has covered the wizards of high tech for twenty-five years and has an insider's knowledge of Silicon Valley and the unpredictable mix of genius, drive, and luck that can turn a start-up into a Fortune 500 company. The Silicon Eye is a narrative of some of the smartest - and most colorful - people on earth and their race to transform an entire industry."--Jacket Carver Mead's path to the Foveon camera began one spring day in 1967 when Max Delbrück burst open for Mead the door between physics and biology.