1394 Trade Association Leaders Cite Rapid Expansion in Japan, South Korea; Present Updates on the Standard at Annual Nikkei Electronics Conference in Tokyo.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 1394: The "Best-Known Adj. 1. best-known - most familiar or renowned; "Stevenson's best-known work is probably `Treasure Island'" known - apprehended with certainty; "a known quantity"; "the limits of the known world"; "a musician known throughout the world"; "a known criminal" " IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Standard in Japan and Elsewhere? Leaders of the 1394 Trade Association told attendees at Nikkei Nikkei Short for Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average, the leading and most-respected index of Japanese stocks. It is a price-weighted index comprised of Japan's top 225 blue-chip companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Electronics annual seminar on connectivity last week that the IEEE 1394 standard continues its rapid expansion into new generations of products in Japan, South Korea, North Korea, North officially Democratic People's Republic of Korea Country, East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean peninsula. Area: 47,399 sq mi (122,762 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 22,488,000. Capital: P'yongyang. America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. and Europe. James Snider, the trade association's executive director and Max Bassler of Molex, the vice chairman, presented almost 500 engineers in the Tokyo Conference Center with a complete update on 1394's leadership in home networking, automotive networking, and other applications, including new digital cameras and PC peripherals. "Japan has fully embraced the standard, and continues to develop new consumer electronics and computer products that incorporate it," said Snider. "We expect strong growth for 1394, as the electronics economy moves out of recession worldwide this year." Snider added that consumers in Japan now see 1394, which is marketed in Japan on consumer electronics products as i.LINK, as the "best-known" IEEE standard. New Standard for Set Top Boxes and Home Networking in Asia The conference also heard from South Korean engineering leaders, who indicated that more than two dozen new, 1394-equipped products are now in design for introduction to the market in Korea in 2003. "It appears that 1394 is moving ahead rapidly in South Korea, with between 25 and 30 new products in development, including new set top boxes for home networking applications," said Snider. About the 1394 Trade Association The 1394 Trade Association is an international organization dedicated to the advancement and proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of the IEEE 1394 standard, also known as FireWire and i.LINK. For more information, visit www.1394ta.org |
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