Tonight ATi had a live chat with Rick Bergman from ATi.

I was there and took a transcript and asked a couple of Q's.

About the Speaker: (from ATi.com)
Rick Bergman is Senior Vice President of Marketing & General Manager, Desktop Business, ATI Technologies Inc. He is also a member of the Company's Executive Management Team.

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FiringSquad recently had the opportunity to chat with ATI's President and Chief Operating Officer, Dave Orton. Mr. Orton and his team from ArtX are largely credited for ATI's reemergence in the high-end graphics market. Over the course of the interview, Orton addresses the K8 market, PCI Express, DirectX 10, and ATI's partnerships with Microsoft and Nintendo on their next generation console. Read all about these topics and more inside!

DriverHeaven recently had a chat with Valve's Gabe Newell about Half life 2 and apart from being a very nice guy to talk to he made some very interesting comments. Here is a snip: Driverheaven.net: From a developer's perspective when creating Half-Life2 how did the major graphics card companies assist in resolving any issues? Were they quick to respond with driver fixes or technical responses, and would you have hoped for more input from them? Gabe Newell: If you look at the surveys we've done of the hardware our customers have (on Speakeasy.net), there are two companies that dominate - NVIDIA and ATI. We've spent a lot of time working with both companies. Right now for the DX9 generation, ATI is significantly ahead in terms of absolute performance and price/performance. We are working pretty hard with NVIDIA to try to optimize the situation with regards to getting their performance up to snuff. We spend more of our time with ATI working on new features like high-dynamic range rendering (HDR) which is a new technique to create more life-like lighting.

Grant Collier, a developer of the game Call of Duty, which already seems to be a success even though the game is only being released later this week, has been interviewed by HomeLan Fed about the game.

Here's a snip:
HomeLAN - Did you expect that Call of Duty would receive this much pre-release attention?

Grant Collier - No way! We currently have 30+ fan sites and 50+ mods going. If we were a sequel to the #1 First Person Action title, then maybe. But for an unknown contender that hasn't even shipped, this is all beyond our wildest dreams.

Head over to Homelan Feds for the interview

Just got word from my good mate Zardon at Driver Heaven that he's thrown up their interview they recently had with Gainwards Wayne Tritton and they also have up coverage from Lanwar20!

Veridian3: The recently released Cool-FX range of Gainward Geforce FX's is a radical change to the cooling provided by all other FX manufacturers. What prompted Gainward to make such a bold move and do you expect to see other companies following your lead?