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FireWire jumps to 1.6 Gbps

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Apr 9, 2008 at 09:37 AM

Symwave, a semiconductor maker, has announced the FirePHY-1600, which doubles the speed of FireWire to 1.6 Gbps. Current FireWire 800 only manages 800 Mbps. FirePHY-1600 is fully backwards compatible with Firewire 400 and FireWire 800, and the speed increases are dramatic. According to Macworld, Symwave says that in under 5… Continue Reading »

New Firewire Version to climb to 3.2 Gbps

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Dec 19, 2007 at 04:32 PM

The IEEE 1394 Trade Association has announced that the next version of Firewire will climb to quadruple the speed of today’s FireWire, to 3.2 Gbps (Gigabits per Second), a transfer speed of 400 Megabytes per second. The new technology will use the same connectors as the current Firewire 800 (800… Continue Reading »

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