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Subject: Re: [OM] It is Here
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:37:35 +0000
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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