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Citing lack of customer demand, Intel Corp. {INTC} executives have altered their 1394 road map and will not incorporate the bus into a chipset this year.
The step backward comes at a time when support for the bandwidth-buster technology is growing from consumer electronics companies (see MMW, May 18, p. 6) and may deter those manufacturers from moving forward with convergence products.
An Intel motherboard implementation would be a tremendous market enabler and probably the quickest way to drive down the cost of silicon necessary to implement the bus.
On a positive note, Intel's decision...