Wednesday May 28, 2003

[H]ardNews - Interview Edition

Intel Interview:

SimHQ has an interview with one of our favorite guys, George Alfs, from Intel. A pretty good Q&A session that covers a variety of topics including PAT, which has gotten a lot of attention lately.

Can you explain what PAT means to all of us non-technical people? “How does this help my computer go faster”? is the most common question.

Performance Acceleration Technology is one of the features of our 875P (Canterwood) chipset. We basically bin our Memory Controller Hub (MCH) chips like our CPUs, finding the fastest silicon. We can then use this fast silicon to shave off a couple of memory clock cycles, resulting in better performance.

ATi Interview:

The fellas at Gaming Illustrated have a video interview with ATi Marketing Director, Paul Ayscough. The interview was conducted at E3, so there is a good deal of background noise, but it doesn’t interfere with the audio or Paul’s cool accent too much. The download is 24MB, and has some pretty good stuff in it.

At the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, Executive Editor Sean Gibson caught up with Paul Ayscough, ATI's marketing director, and talked everything ATI - including the latest in current PC gaming technology.