In an exclusive interview with TG Daily, the CEO of the company that produces copy protection software for music publisher Sony BMG denies allegations that this software is a rootkit, though acknowledges it uses some of the same stealth means. They won't be used again, he says, but stealth itself cannot be ruled out.

ATI?s Terry Makedon takes a ?no nonsense? approach to managing his job responsibilities for driver development for ATI. Terry has perhaps one of the most difficult jobs in this business. When I first met Terry nearly five years ago, ATI?s reputation for driver issues was well known. With the help of an exceptional team, Terry helped quarterback the launch and branding of a driver product family that has now become best in its class. We sat down with Terry and asked some hard questions to get the inside scoop on where ATI?s Catalyst product has been and where he sees it going in the future.

Today we had the chance to present some questions to Van Can TRAN from Arctic Cooling, but before we get to that we would like to present some information about Arctic Cooling as a company.

ATI's Director of Marketing for Multimedia Products, Godfrey Cheng, offers to do an interview with FiringSquad. We sent in Alan. If only ATI knew what they were getting into...

Over the years, Futuremark Corporation has launched a new version of their well-known application, 3DMark, to coincide with either a new version of DirectX or when there is a big enough range of products that offers support for specific key features within D3D. With three SM3.0 implementations currently on the market (NVIDIA's 6 and 7 series, as well as ATI's X1000 series), there is sufficient hardware support available to warrant a new benchmark that tests these capabilities.

We sat down with David "Tabasco" Nalasco from ATI during their R520 launch in Ibiza and discussed the past, present and future of CrossFire.

T-Break

I got an opportunity to interview the man behind ATITool, SysTool, softmodded Catalyst drivers and techPowerUp!. As a nice guy, he accepted my request. I sat down, started my IM and contacted W1zzard...

We can speculate all we want, but there?s nothing better than getting firm answers directly from companies that deal with evolving market, competition and customers everyday. Today we have Andy Talamantez, Online Media Coordinator, OCZ Technology for a quick roundup of questions regarding OCZ?s plans, its recently launched Gamer GX series and the future of the memory industry. Without further ado, let?s get started?

Take one outspoken Canadian with an undoubtedly superb game engine. Add one powerful PC running tech demos of Unreal Engine 3, throw in a HEXUS.gaming editor and some good old UK techno slang and this is the result.

A few weeks prior to the launch on GeForce 7800 GTX, based on NVIDIA's latest G70 chip, NVIDIA held an "Editors Day" to introduce the press to the new architecture and capabilities. Whilst that the Editors Day we got the opportunity to sit down with NVIDIA's CEO and visionary, Jen-Hsun Huang and ask him a few questions...

Beyond3D

AGEIA is a company with huge ideas. They plan to make our gaming experiences much more immersive with their PhysX add-in card. Here is an interview with Andy Keane to answer some questions previously unasked. You can check out the full interview Here

With the 7800 now launched, we look to the future. We chat to Nvidia's Chief Scientist, David Kirk, about PlayStation 3, next-generation architectures and what's next for PC gaming.

Bit-Tech

We've been talking to one of the developers from BTU Games, who are currently working on two intriguing projects from a graphical point of view - Firstly, a game title based around Crytek's game engine (as seen in Far Cry), and secondly a game engine of their very owned, named Shiva. We've asked some questions about the technical aspects of these projects, which has given us some fascinating information to digest.

We talk to industry luminary Richard Huddy about ATI's work with Microsoft on the Xbox 360. We cover the Xenos graphics architecture in some depth, as well as considering its relative merits against the PS3's RSX chip. What does all this technology mean for us PC enthusiasts?

Bit-Tech

We have another interview for your viewing pleasure today, this time its with Jimmy Dinh, a really cool and friendly guy ive had the pleasure to talk with recently. Jimmy is the Product Manager for a plethora of ATI's graphics products, including the recently announced RADEON X800 XL 512MB.

DriverHeaven

We managed to get a hold of Paul Watkins at Corsair, European Sales Director, and asked him questions about everything from its history to its view RAM-based harddrives. Many of the questions are of course about Corsair?s main goal, the memory market, but we also managed to squeeze some other subjects into the interview.

NordicHardware

Nvnews have thrown up their video AGEIA PPU Interview with Some really impressive demo's and good info with this one.

At the end of the interview I popped "the" question. Straight and to the point. G70 vs R520. He actually had an answer too. And it was one of the two cards I just mentioned. Which card was it? Well.... you'll have to see the interview.

Nvnews

HEXUS.net sat down with Michael Robertson at the UK launch event for Linspire 5. He covered everything from hardware support to software patents... security too.

Along with Scott Wasson of The Tech Report and Kyle Bennett of HardOCP, we recently had some time to sit down and talk with AMD's CTO Fred Weber about his vision of the future of microprocessors. We took the opportunity to compare and contrast his vision with our discussions from this year's Spring IDF that we had written about.

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