VIA Technology Conference is due to be held in October in Asia and QBM by Kentron Technologies will surely be one of the hottest topics around. To gain attendance on the new licensed technology VIA has released an interview with Bob Goodman, CEO of Kentron Technologies. As the VIA/AMD camp is surely closer to the enthusiast community than Intel is, questions mainly rotate around performance improvements: Read more Q: System performance has been hindered by the imbalance between the fast processor speeds (P4 @533MHz) and the slower memory speed (DDR I @266/333MHz). How does the QBM technology resolve this issue? A: Achieving system "balance" between the CPU and the memory has been a key area of interest for Kentron. The Quad Band Memory (QBM) technology is an innovative way of finally achieving system balance with the fastest CPUs while meeting the demand for low cost modules. The secret to the solution is in the low cost switching component, the QBM10R, that allows QBM modules to use "off the shelf", low cost DDR I memory devices to provide the performance expected from future DDR II & III memory device based modules. Source: VIA