The Silicon Eye: Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation (Enterprise) (0393328414)

Editorial Review:

Technology insider George Gilder delivers a "compelling" (Wired) look under the hood at a genius-fueled startup. 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. 13 illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Interesting story, but a hard slog to read for the non-specialist:

I got a copy of this book as I have been a fan of Gilder's previous books on supply-side economics in the 1980s and since. It was interesting to read about how visual imaging technologies have developed. We take for granted such amazing technologies such as digital cameras and so on. I am afraid that for all Gilder's skills as a writer, I found some of the details of how this material works hard to follow. Specialists might find it interesting, but I struggled with it.

very boring book:

I was very disappointed in this book. Gilder writes in a very obtuse way and it is hard to connect the dots with him. Save you money.

Questionable accuracy:

My company was working with Foveon chips, so I was interested to read this book. The book itself was fine, but my distributer said it was so inaccurate that Foveon won't even comment anymore. Foveon chips take great pictures, by the way.

The Digital Camera is creating a breakthrough digital revolution:

The Digital Camera is creating a digital revolution. Craver Mead is leading the digital revolution. The Japanese pushed CCD technology creating a $20 billion industry for digital cameras and cam recorders. CCD dicards 2/3 of its light values and uses forward propagating Neutral Networks of surrounding pixels to calculate pixel color. The Foveon chip can collect 100% of the color information per pixel using a single-chip solution and the impact will be smaller imaging, cheaper cost, higher quality, and less... more info

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