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[filmscanners] Re: Foveon
I don't think you'll ever see Foveon in a price war!
The cost of CCDs is largely due to the cost of production, not huge profit
margins.
I haven't heard of any revolutions in silicon economics around the corner, so
price improvement should be more steady than revolutionary.
On Tuesday 12 Feb 2002 6:10 am, Charlie wrote:
>
> But doesn't it seem likely that companies like Sony, with a stake in
> existing CCD sensors, are likely to try to drive down the cost of
> "conventional" digital cameras, as a means of keeping an upstart like
> Foveon from gaining significant market share? Sounds like a price war
> is in the near future to me! We're likely to see just how cheaply a 4
> M-pixel camera can be sold.
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