The Silicon Eye: Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation: 0 - Brossura

Gilder, George

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ISBN 10: 0393328414 ISBN 13: 9780393328417

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2006

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Documents the ongoing efforts of the billion-dollar technology company, Foveon, to develop sophisticated digital capabilities for artificially intelligent machines that will far outstrip the abilities of today's computers.

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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 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.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393328414
• ISBN 13: 9780393328417
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 318