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Re: iPod / FireWire future / M. J. Aupperle, A. Perry

Actually, Cypress is pushing USB over FireWire harder than anyone else (Intel being relatively neutral). Perhaps Apple should have asked Texas Instruments to "bid" the processor deal ... or possibly AMD.

Performance rules the digital world, and always will. Given comparable micro processor speeds (clock rates), FireWire still has significant advantages over other protocols: Peer to peer networking, expandable FW400 double duplex and FW800 quad duplex topography, various xxx- synchronous transfer options, lower hardware overhead, lower firmware overhead ... These better efficiencies become more dramatic as transfer rate increase.

(Prejudicially), I see FireWire as the best performing hardware protocol for short haul and very short haul optical data transfer. (Consider: metal conductors hit a barrier at around 10 gigahertz, both in Physics (thermal overload and cross talk) and Economics (diminishing returns of power and cost v. increasing performance) ... 

Ed Karns
FireWireStuff.com 


On Oct 23, 2005, at 12:04 PM, email@hidden wrote:

Also with the x86 switch and the closer ties to Intel ([a] developer of USB) can't be good for Firewwire's existence going forward.





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