Foveon

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Foveon Inc.

logo
legal form Incorporated
founding 1997
Seat Santa Clara , United States
management Chairman & Founder
Carver Mead
Chief Executive Officer
Federico Faggin
Branch Sensors
Website www.foveon.com

Foveon Inc. is a US company that makes digital photography products. In 1997 Carver Mead founded the company.

Foveon developed the unique Foveon-X3 image sensor.

Foveon Inc. was bought by the lens and camera manufacturer Sigma in November 2008 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigma : "Sigma Corporation Acquires Three-layer Image Sensor Developer Foveon, Inc."
  2. Sigma : "SIGMA takes over Foveon" ( Memento from January 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )