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FireWire ran external hard drives at full speed when USB physically couldn't, but it still lost

FireWire was an amazing technology, but it lost out to USB for very simple reasons.
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PCIe-to-FireWire chip yields one-chip solution

The XIO2213A PCI Express to 1394B (FireWire) controller is said to be the fastest available, with packet throughput exceeding 87 Mbytes/s. The chip supports three 1394 A/B cable ports at 100, 200, 400 ...