“Oxford Semiconductor is to benefit from Intel’s decision to design a FireWire high speed comms interface into its motherboards. ‘Intel has eventually seen the light and designed 1394b [FireWire 800] into their motherboard. They’re already starting to be manufactured in Taiwan,’ Jalil Oraee, founder and CTO of Oxford Semiconductor, told Electronics Weekly… Oraee sees Intel’s move as a positive one for Oxford Semiconductor: ‘Intel’s move is causing a lot of semiconductor companies to re-evaluate 1394b. It means the market is going somewhere,’ said Oraee,” David Manners reports for Electronics Weekly.
Full article here.
The 1394 digital link standard was conceived in 1986 by technologists at Apple Computer, who chose the trademark ‘FireWire’, in reference to its speeds of operation. The first specification for this link was completed in 1987. It was adopted in 1995 as the IEEE 1394 standard. Apple’s FireWire technology was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, receiving a 2001 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for FireWire’s impact on the television industry.
More info about FireWire here.
MacDailyNews Note: The Intel Desktop Board D955XBK product description does indeed mention 1394a (FireWire 400) and 1394b (FireWire 800) as features. More info here. Now about those FireWire cables that Apple stopped shipping with the latest iPods…
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple should include a combo FireWire and USB 2.0 cable in every iPod box – February 24, 2005
Apple disrespects its own Mac users with iPod’s FireWire fiasco – February 24, 2005
Griffin debuts Dock400 FireWire cable for Apple iPods – February 24, 2005
Petition to Apple for iPod FireWire support posted online – February 23, 2005
Apple knifing its own FireWire baby by pushing USB 2.0 as iPod’s primary connectivity option – February 23, 2005
Firewire is interesting to Intel for a number of reasons, mainly to do with the home entertainment market.
Fw800 is the fastest current standard but some say it’s speed will reach 3200 over the next few years.
What I’d like to see is more scanners and printers with Fw as it has much lower CPU overhead than USB which can take 20% CPU.
So much for the guy at Staples 4 months ago who told me “Firewire is going away”. I politely added to his comment, “Of course it is. Firewire 400 is being replaced by Firewire 800” So I’m glad what I said is coming true so I can go there to buy staples or scotch tape without having to hang my head in shame.
Good. Maybe Apple will now put FW800 in all their hardware instead of just putting it in the PowerMacs. Unless they are afraid that if the Mac Mini has FW800, it will eat into the sales of the Power Mac.
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Do a google for stopADVbanners.css and install it as your style sheet by dropping it into ~/Library/Safari and going to Safari/Preferences/Advanced.
Crazy Frog gone, along with all other annoying flash ads.
Safari under 10.3.9 doesn’t get those ads on this page, only the Tiger variant.
Now maybe Apple will put FW800 connectors on their LCD Monitors instead of just FW400
“Mac Mini has FW800, it will eat into the sales of the Power Mac.”
I don’t think the Mini is eating anyone’s sales, even its own
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OK, everyone, calm down. Please check my “Firewire answers” site at http://www.teener.com/FireWire/index.html to get a somewhat more accurate understanding of Firewire history …
Michael Teener, nice page. Thanks for the info.
Do you know of any TV/displays that actually use FireWire for transporting display data per the CEA profile? If so, is the number growing?