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Broad Industry Support for 1394a PathThe 1394a specification has an extremely bright future. TI's roadmap includes subsequent generations at rapidly increasing performance and speed levels, that are all backwardly compatible with today's 1394-1995 standard. We believe that 1394a can more than satisfy industry demand well into the next century.
-Larry Blackledge, Texas Instruments IBM Microelectronics supports the IEEE1394.1995 standard. We expect that the 1394a specification will extend the standard to data rates beyond the present standard while assuring legacy product interoperability designed to the IEEE standard.
-Erich Berndlmair, IBM Microelectronics We strongly support the high-speed p1394a effort. It guarantees backward compatibility with IEEE 1394-1995 along with performance scalability to the physical limits of the connecting media. In addition, it has fundamental simplicity and cost advantages over alternative connections for both computer and consumer electronics applications. These three points: compatibility, scalability, and simplicity, are the reasons Firefly will be working exclusively on 1394a.
- Michael Teener, Firefly Inc Sony joins many other PC and consumer companies in actively promoting 1394 and 1394a as the cost effective technology which enables convergence between the PC and consumer industries.
-Scott Smyers, Sony Corporation Compaq sees 1394-1995 as an exciting new digital interface for integrating PCs with Consumer Electronics. 1394a gives an excellent price/performance roadmap to this young technology. Camcorder and VCR manufacturers have been the first to market the 1394-1995 interface on their new line of digital audio/video products, but with the ultra high-speed roadmap of 1394a (1, 2, 4, and 8Gbps) and its compatibility with 1394-1995, it will surely become the main high-speed digital interface for the PC. 1394a's price/performance will ultimately displace today's aging and cumbersome IDE/EIDE as the HDD interface of choice.
-David Wooten, Compaq Corporation By migrating to higher speeds, 1394a follows in the footsteps of other practical efforts like Gbit Ethernet and 28.8KB modems that have extended the capabilities of established technologies, rather than re-inventing the wheel.
-Lee Wilson, IBM PowerPC
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