FireWire: over a billion ports served
Written by admin on April 10th, 2008 in Gadgets.
by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 9th 2008 at 9:04PM
Alright, so we’ve harshed a little bit on FireWire recently, but we’ve got to stop and give the venerable interconnect some love: the 1394 Trade Association says that there are now over a billion FireWire ports out there. That’s quite an accomplishment, even if we’re not so sure that the group’s claim that “every 1394-equipped device sold now has 1 billion opportunities to connect” is the most accurate or useful way of measuring the success of the technology. Even still, growth is always a good thing, and with an estimated 15 percent expansion rate in existing markets and some new applications like in-car networking showing potential, it looks like FireWire is set to hold its own against USB and eSATA for a while longer.
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