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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
