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800Mbps FireWire Enclosures At Manufacturers, Native FW CDRWs Coming
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
June 3rd 2002
Is next-gen FireWire going to be on your July Power Mac?
IGM sources have revealed that Macpower, the Taiwan-based maker of the Oxford
911-based IceCube FireWire enclosure, are commencing manufacture of 800Mbps FireWire
cases.
Taiwanese electronics manufacturers - the makers of a large proportion of Apple
product, including PowerBook, iBook and iMac - are the main drivers behind the push to
1394b, the next-generation FireWire standard. Indeed, Taiwanese electronics
manufacturers underpin much of global computer industry.
Computex, the big Taipei trade show, was held last week and sported a ''FireWire
hall'', where every permutation of FW digital devices could be seen. Major CDRW
manufacturers Sony and Yamaha have already committed to building FW-native CDRWs
(current FW CDRWs use a FW bridge chip and an IDE CDRW), which will permit vastly
superior performance, provided burner speeds themselves can keep up.
Analysis: What are your bets for 800Mbps FireWire at MWNY? And what of USB 2.0?
Intel''s major marketing push hasn''t come yet, and it will be a tough sell for them
to tout a technology that is half the speed of the dominant DV and high-speed
peripheral technology. Still, even 800Mbps'' worth of bandwidth won''t convince Intel
to put FireWire onto its motherboards.
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