Firewire certainly exploded in popularity post-IEEE 1394 compared to when it was a Sony controlled interface with special dispensations for Apple. The number o

Firewire certainly exploded in popularity post-IEEE 1394 compared to when it was a Sony controlled interface with special dispensations for Apple. The number of vendors offering Firewire peripherals as well as the innovative software built around it made it a mainstay in market segments such as video editing and external storage. Hey, I'm willing to pay for Thunderbolt on an AMD Threadripper (because PCIe lanes matter) and I'm happy to build devices based on it (as noted, that was what I working on for a couple of years). Feel free to show me the options available to achieve that goal absent being a special preferred Intel vendor. Amusingly, I have some history with Intel... I worked there. I've also seen how they mismanage or abandon anything that isn't core x86.