sweazey moved back to national semiconductor, who positioned quickring as a high-speed interconnect. here it had little better luck, competing against sci on one hand, and ever-faster versions of ethernet on the other. efforts were made to standardize quickring inside the existing vmebus system using some redundant pins in response to an industry effort to standardize parallel processing hardware, but nothing ever came of this. the us navy announced several tenders for quickring products for sonar data processing (for which they had originally had futurebus+ developed), but it is unclear whether or not it was actually used in this role. national eventually lost interest, and the system essentially disappeared in 1996. similar products, notably skyconnect and raceway, were also standardized in this role, but seem to have seen little use as well.