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 seconds, you can transfer 1,000 more »

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 Mbps,100 Megabytes per second) standard, more »