October 29, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - T&L is a must It's pointless arguing about software support for hardware T&L. There's a reason why it's there. October 22, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - One up, two down ATI goes over a billion while Real3D, and Raycer prove that technology is not enough to succeed in graphics. October 20, 1999 Tom's Blurb Microprocessor Forum and the Cold War of the x86-processor makers There's still no improvement of the Athlon motherboard situation visible anywhere on the horizon. It can't be too hard guessing which force is behind that. Michael Slater didn't bother commenting on this situation as well, so does nobody really care anymore? October 15, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Predictions for 3dfx With the sudden news of 3dfx's CEO departure, we have to resort to crystal balls to figure out what next. October 9, 1999 The 921 Quake in Taiwan and the Global IT Industry Michael DePrenda, our Taiwanese correspondend, reports on the aftermath of the Taiwanese earthquake 921 and its impact on the people as well as on the Taiwanese IT business. October 8, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Rich in Bandwidth If you want to know how the info-rich live then, let me tell you because, I have DSL, and I can download a 19 Mbytes file in 2 minutes and 23 seconds. October 1, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - The extinction of man Mankind, I mean men, are in danger of losing all that's good, and holy to them. The culprit isn't the other sex, but the chinless wonders of the new economy, and their dreams of interactive television. September 24, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - The multimedia black box Is there a set-top market, one in which a high degree of interactivity is allowed to take place, and which will change the way we watch television? September 17, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Why not Nintendo? Sony has to contend with Sega and Microsoft, an alliance that may show its true colors with the recent release of the Windows CE toolkit 2.0, and, lest we forget, Nintendo, with its own unique perspective on the future of gaming. September 10, 1999 Intel Developers Forum Fall '99 Report Take a peek into the Intel master plan with Merced, see what NVIDIA has going on with the upcoming GeForce 256 and much more! September 10, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Google Fast the Northern Light The killer app of the Internet doesn't involve handing over your credit card number, but it may be just as insidious. August 27, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - The Phony War Nvidia and 3dfx release their second quarter financials, and everyone has an opinion. August 19, 1999 Tom's Blurb, August 19, 1999 Athlon Motherboard Story and Intel August 13, 1999 Siggraph 99 Siggraph used to be the place where the super-nerds of computer graphics would get to meet and schmooze in a setting that was still intimate enough to generate real discussions about technology, and big enough to attract the big players of the industry. August 13, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - The PowerPoint Generation What happens when you graduate from Microsoft? Alex St. John, once the public face of DirectX, demonstrates WildTangent at Siggraph 99, and the value of a good Redmond education. August 9, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb, August 9, 1999 Tom's column on the hardware scene August 6, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Dictum de dicto The Kandinsky Transform Engine. What's the point? August 5, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb, August 2, 1999 Tom's column on the hardware scene July 30, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Pay the piper Forget AOL, or Amazon.com, the most interesting company online is Sony. July 23, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - ATI - the one to catch ATI is fast approaching Creative Labs as the world's biggest multimedia peripherals vendor, yet still enjoys the cachet of being a fast growing semiconductor vendor too. This week I talk to Alan McCann, Director of Marketing at ATI. July 16, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Graphics III: 3dfx in limine Michael Howse, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, 3dfx, speaks. July 9, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Graphics II: mutatis mutandis Scott Vouri of Diamond Multimedia, and Andrew Wolfe of S3 talk about 3dfx, the merger of their companies, and offer some interesting bits of wisdom. July 2, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Graphics I: cum notis variorum Nvidia, Creative Labs, Diamond Multimedia, and, even, 3dfx help my rehabilitation. June 25, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Hominis est errare I said all kinds of nice things about THAT company, scooped the May PC Data figures, and still got flamed. Thank heavens for S3's acquisition of Diamond. June 22, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Retail Millstone Retail channels are a dangerous play for manufacturers so, will 3dfx's successful launch of Voodoo 3 in April pay off? June 11, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - The business of talking about games The entertainment industry thrives on gossip, rumor, innuendo, and hype. June 4, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Cheap Power The consumer PC is about to change from being the main course of consumer computing into one of its appetizers. May 31, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb Tom's column on the hardware scene May 28, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - PO not PR The Internet has destroyed any intelligence that the PR industry may have possessed, and replaced it with the kind of inane chatter, slogan-slinging, and hype you'd expect from politicians. May 21, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - The Sims - Wow! I have seen the future of interactive entertainment. It isn't hard core gaming; it's the first true interactive soap opera, and it's called: The Sims. May 17, 1999 E3 Road Trip Report Brent Kerby reports about his impressions from E3 1999 in Los Angeles May 17, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb By Tom Pabst May 14, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Loving Electronic Arts It's blue chip; it's professional; it's Disney for gamers; it's brand after successful brand. But, it is still subject to the schizophrenia of the game industry May 7, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Heads or Tails Diamond and Creative May 1, 1999 Second Hand Smoke - Thoroughbred Graphics Nvida and 3dfx April 27, 1999 Tom's Hardware Guide Welcomes New Columnist On 1st May, Tom's Hardware Guide will be premiering the first in a regular series of columns titled Second Hand Smoke April 13, 1999 Tom's Blurb Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene March 23, 1999 Tom's CeBIT Blurb PVRSG is back with a vegeance March 15, 1999 Tom's Blurb Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene March 5, 1999 Tom's Short Blurb Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene February 26, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb for Friday Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene February 16, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene February 2, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene January 25, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene January 18, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb Tom's weekly column on the hardware scene January 11, 1999 Tom's Monday Blurb Tom's new weekly column on the hardware scene November 20, 1998 Tom’s Comdex Interview with Leo Laporte, ZDTV, Thursday Check out my second TV interview with Leo from ZDTV ScreenSavers September 16, 1998 News from the Intel Developer Forum 1998 Detailed information about the new Katmai features, 3D games start depending on AGP June 20, 1998 The E3/Computex US/Asia Trip A blurb about this trip around the globe and what I've come across 1997 CPU, Chipset and RAM News August 1997 What's going on in the Market ? 1997 CPU News July 1997 1997 Intel's press incident and what else you should know ... 1997 Computex '97 News Return Home

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