At 17:11 2/11/02, Winsor Crosby wrote:
The end of 35mm just arrived: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000912S0048
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Foveon Inc. here today announced the world's
highest resolution image sensor based on a 0.18-micron CMOS process
developed by National Semiconductor Corp. The startup company and
National also claimed that the new 16.8 million-pixel sensor was the
industry's largest mixed-signal IC, with nearly 70 million transistors on
a chip
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
Winsor,
An interesting find and a "breakthrough."
Haven't done the math yet, but I believe memory devices will need to make a
quantum leap if someone is going to use this at full resolution! Also
imagining the cost of it, for at least a while, will be astronomical.
-- John
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