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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 start-up 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.
George Gilder, the best-selling author
of several books -- including Telecosm, Microcosm,
and The Spirit of Enterprise -- is the publisher
of the influential Gilder Technology Report. He lives in
Tyringham, Massachusetts.
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