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The Silicon Eye

Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation

By: George Gilder

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Paperback | 1 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhereâ"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 CPUâ"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 smartestâ"and most colorfulâ"people on earth and their race to transform an entire industry.

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Like Foveon's founders, Mr. Gilder wants to understand vision, albeit of a different kind: the vision of innovators. . . . The unpredictable disorder of markets is, in Microsoft parlance, not a bug but a feature. That's a lesson that Mr. Gilder's book drives home.-- "Wall Street Journal"

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Prologue: Who Is Carver Mead?	p. 13
Three Men and A Camera
Delbruck Bursts In	p. 23
The Fourth Camera	p. 31
Merrill's View	p. 47
The Charged Competition	p. 57
Annealing Neurons	p. 63
The Forgotten Founder
FF	p. 69
Beyond the Silicon Gate	p. 77
Tobermory	p. 87
The Hopfield Net	p. 93
The Cat and the Camera
Carverland	p. 101
Michelle	p. 111
Misha	p. 125
Synaptics	p. 139
The Analog Perplex	p. 147
Seizing the Sword	p. 159
The Cat	p. 175
Teleology at Oxford	p. 185
White Rabbit	p. 193
Foveon
Merrill's Magic	p. 201
Lyon's Den of Many Colors	p. 209
Photokina 2000 and Beyond	p. 223
Foveon's Disruptive Challenge	p. 233
Holy Kammoli!	p. 251
Foveon RAW in Vegas	p. 261
Epilogue: Camera's End	p. 277
Glossary	p. 287
Acknowledgments	p. 299
Index	p. 303
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