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FireWire® Leader SIIG Ships FireWire CardBus

(Fremont,California; March 6, 2000) SIIG, Inc., a leading manufacturer of I/O and controller boards, is now shipping its latest I/O product, the FireWireCardBus. This aggressively priced (estimated street price of $99) product is designed for use with the latest in DV video camcorders, utilizing FireWire®technology (also known as 1394 or i.LinkTM), allowing users to capture footage from their DV camcorders to their notebook computers.

User Friendly 
Just as the successful 1394 DV-Cam Kit, SIIG's FireWire CardBus comes with all the consumer needs to start transforming their videos into professional looking footage, including a single-port cardbus pc card (type II), Ulead's award-winning VideoStudio video editing software, and DV cables (cardbus to 4-pin & cardbus to 6-pin). The software's friendly user interface guides you step-by-step as you capture clips, arrange them into a story, add Hollywood-style transitions, animate unlimited titles on-screen, and add your favorite music to the soundtrack, while preserving the original video quality.

Increased Speeds 
The FireWire CardBus also offers customers the ability to connect up to 63 IEEE-1394 devices connected in a chain through its port. The IEEE-1394 port operates at speeds of up to 400 megabits/second (50 megabytes/second), and much like USB are hot-swappable (allowing devices to be connected/disconnected without powering down the system). IEEE-1394 devices currently include DV camcorders, digital still cameras, disk drives, and are expected to include removable storage devices, scanners, printers, and a wide variety of Audio/Video products. 

Future SIIG FireWireProducts 
Much like the I/O and controller market, SIIG is positioning itself to become the market leader in IEEE-1394 products. Future plans include a combo USB/FireWire card (including 2 external USB ports, and 2 external/1internal FireWire ports), 1394 IDE & SCSI drive kits (converts traditional internal IDE or SCSI interface drives into a FireWire® drive), 1394 CD-RW/DVD Kit (converts internal CD-RW/DVD drives into FireWire® drives), a full line of 1394 memory card readers/writers, and much more.