1394 Multimedia Standard Continues Strong Progress

By JackDavidsonOLD September 12, 1999 12:57 PM

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The next generation of 1394 "Firewire" has been announced reaching speeds of 800 Megabits/second.? The chairman of the 1394 Trade Association said today PC, peripheral and consumer product development based on the popular IEEE-1394 multimedia standard is accelerating and will explode in the year 2000 with the production release of silicon running at 800 Megabits/second.?James Snider addressed a news conference at the World PC Expo show in Chiba, Japan, citing accelerating development cycles that have yielded new 1394-enabled PCs from companies such as Gateway and Sharp Electronics, along with new hard drives from Fujitsu Computer Products and a new scanner system from Taiwan-based UMAX.?New consumer electronics products are also in evidence at the annual PC Expo, such as a new camera from Taiwan-based Procomp. Read more...

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