[photo-3d] digital

["Robert A. Schreiber" <bschreib@xxxxxxxx>]

    Foveon, Inc., just announced a new chip:  16.8 M pixel CMOS
(complementary metal oxide semiconductor chip), with 2.5 times more
transistors than a Pentium III...According to the announcement, top
professional gear today captures about 6 M pixels....cameras chould be
available by early 2001.  Kodak has also announced a 61 M CCD (charge
coupled devie) chip.  This is the first time that a CMOS chip has
surpassed a CCD chip, which has been the technology of the last 20
years....