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Marco Chiappetta

Managing Editor

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com

Recent posts

P965 Shoot-Out: Asus vs. MSI

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jun 01, 2007

Before we close out the week, we wanted to let you all know that we've just posted a new article in which we evaluate the features, bundles, overclockability, and performance of two Intel P965-powered boards for Core 2 processors, the Asus P5B-E and the MSI P965 Platinum. One board is targeted at budget conscious consumers and the other is... Read more...

AMD Phenom Die Photo

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, May 31, 2007

AMD has just revealed another detail regarding their upcoming desktop quad-core processors that we wanted to share with you. A few weeks ago, we talked about AMD's new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's... Read more...

Intel Delivers Dual Channel Demodulators

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, May 30, 2007

Intel Delivers First Dual Channel Enhanced Demodulators For Consumer Electronics Devices TVonics Adopts New Demodulators to Deliver Advanced TV Capabilities SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 29, 2007 – Intel Corporation today unveiled its first Digital TV dual channel demodulators for the... Read more...

Abit iDome Speakers and AirPace Music

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, May 30, 2007

Hello everyone. Just in case you like to just right to the news and missed the new link at the top of the page, we wanted to let you all know that we've just posted a new article in which we evaluate the features and acoustic performance of Abit's iDome speakers and AirPace Music wireless access point. The iDome satellites turned out to be... Read more...

AMD, Micron To Go Private?

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, May 29, 2007

According to a story on EETimes, rumors were circulating last week that claimed AMD and Micron (among others) were planning to go private. We don't know how much truth there is to this rumor, but considering AMD's current financial situation, it's likely the company is exploring a number of possible routes and going private is just one of... Read more...

NVIDIA To Host Annual Meeting Of Shareholders

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, May 29, 2007

NVIDIA To Host Annual Meeting Of Shareholders SANTA CLARA, CA - MAY 29, 2007 - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, will hold its Annual Meeting of Shareholders at its headquarters in... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, May 29, 2007

Video: Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB Graphics Review @ MVKTech NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (G84) @ Digit-Life ASUS Radeon HD 2900XT vs. ASUS GeForce 8800 GTX @ Legion Hardware Power:... Read more...

Intel Pentium E2140 Dual-Core Processor

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, May 29, 2007

If you thought the Pentium name was dead, think again. We've just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the performance, power consumption, and overclockability of Intel's brand-new Pentium E2140 dual-core processor. This chip is a derivative of the 'Conroe' core used in the Core 2 Duo family of processors, but with... Read more...

More Details about AMD's Griffin Emerge

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, May 28, 2007

The Inquirer has an interesting article posted today regarding AMD's upcoming Griffin mobile processor. When the news about Griffin and Puma broke a couple of weeks ago, there weren't many details available about the architecture and design of the new CPU, but The Inquirer has since uncovered some information that paints a more complete picture.... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, May 28, 2007

Video: ATI Drivers: Ubuntu vs. Windows @ Phoronix BenQ FP222WH 22in Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ OCC Motherboards & Chipsets: ECS AMD690GM-M2 AMD 690G @ PCStats Gigabyte GA-P35C DS3R (Bearlake P35) @ CPU3D Memory & Storage: iMONO MiniSD + SIM Card Reader from Brando WorkShop @ DragonSteelMods OCZ PC2 9200 2GB Reaper HPC Edition... Read more...

Sony Shows Off Razor-Thin TV Screen

by Marco Chiappetta - Sat, May 26, 2007

Daily Mail has a story posted today regarding a breakthrough TV screen developed by Sony. We've all been hearing about the possibility of super-thin flexible displays for a while now, but Sony just took another step closer to making them a reality in the marketplace... "The display combines Sony's... Read more...