It's not a LSI/Agere card, but a LSI/Agere Firewire chipset, the LSI 643E (Revision 8). This is a true PCIe Firewire chipset, with no PCI bridge involved. Startech and Lindy both sell the same card design under their own brand name and others exists out there, too. It's made in Taiwan.
It's the same chip that is used by Apple in their old Macbook and now their Thunderbolt-Firewire adapter. Revision 6 caused issues and needed a workaround (Lindy repeater cable) to work, but since revision 7 they work out of the box with the Firefaces.
The various clones of the Syba TI based card are sold under different brand names, too. I bought an "IOCREST" one. These are made in China. Then there is the Startech variant (and others), which use the same PCB design, but slightly different components (bigger capacitors on the Startech on that picture).
Those images used in web-shops are generally deceiving, because they usually don't represent the current revision of the cards. Early Syba based images look little inviting, with some of the capacitors being crooked and some white stuff on some of them. My current revision looks straight and clean.
Don't forget these things are made somewhat cheap and their end-price tells you nothing, as the very same cards are sold from 40 to over 100 EUR. The latter is true for both the TI and LSI based cards (Lindy LSI cost me 46 EUR in Germany, but is $74 in the US).
