There's an interview with Ben Bar Haim on UK Gamer, asking ATI's VP of software about driver development at ATI and ATI's poor reputation when it comes to these drivers.

ATI has unveiled their latest Radeon videocards today, improving on the successful Radeon 9700 Pro. The high end Radeon 9800 and Radeon 9800 Pro videocards will start shipping this month, Radeon 9600 (Pro) videocards by mid-April and for people with a more limited budget the Radeon 9200 (Pro) cards which will ship in April as well. Reviews of the Radeon 9800 Pro card can be found at HardOCP, AnandTech, Tech Report, Beyond 3D, Hexus and UK Gamer. Here's part of Anand's conclusion

More than just a higher clocked Radeon 9700, the Radeon 9800 Pro doesn't cease to impress because of the minor but potent improvements ATI made to the R350 core. Definitely a pleasant surprise, ATI has produced a worthy interim successor to the Radeon 9700 Pro. If you want the best out today, look no further than the Radeon 9800 Pro; it's quiet, faster, occupies a single slot, and will enjoy much wider availability than the GeForce FX.

Well here it comes, ATI is about to step it up big with their next-gen R350 cards already set to roll. At a recent event the ATI Vice President of engineering stated that their next-gen cards will be coming out in the next 30 days.

The R350 chip will be the high-end successor to ATI's Radeon 9700 chip. A new version of that chip geared toward the mainstream market is also coming in the next 30 days, he said. That Radeon 9700 variant will be built using 130 nanometer technology, or .13 micron, which is a reference to the size of the feature sets on the chips. The .13 micron technology promises better speeds and lower costs than past

Rumor has it the R350 is like, fast and stuff. Dont buy that new vidcard just yet, something faster is coming! (Haha oh man that's funny every time)

ATI has once again released new drivers for their Radeon videocards, offering some fixes for games as well as anisotropic filtering and OpenGL performance improvements on the Radeon 9700 series of cards. Thanks HardOCP.

It's already monday in some parts of the world and some NDA on GFFX reviews expired. (Or so I heard...) Anyway, the German folks at tecchannel posted a review of a GFFX Ultra 5800. It's in German, but the benchmark graphs speak for themselves.

Various sites have the usual fanboy discussions going on about these results - B3D and NVNews.

The GFXX 5800 Ultra (the reviewed card) will cost you EUR 659 (suggested retail price from terratec) - a 9700 PRO goes for about EUR 400.

There seems to be all kinds of hubbub going on lately about tweaking Radeon9500 and Radeon9500pro cards into much higher performance cards. It started out with bios tweaking, but now it looks like the hackers have gotten it down to software packages. Check out this page as or the new RivaTuner. Anyone wanna post results?

I see on Voodoo Extreme that ATI has released new Catalyst drivers, which are now at 3.0. There's a WHQL certified release for Radeon 9700/9500 cards and a non-certified release for all the other cards. This release is all about DirectX 9 and fixes several game issues as well.

ATI has released new Catalyst drivers for their Radeon videocards, available for Win98/ME and WinXP/2000. These new drivers fix slowdown problems, some display corruption and Rage3D mentions there are more V-Sync options. Thanks Reverb.

ATI has released new Catalyst drivers for the Radeon line of videocards, available for WinXP/2000 and Win98/ME. The new drivers promise several game specific frame rate boosts.

ATI today announced their new Radeon videocard chips, offering more choice and lower prices. There is the Radeon 9500 for $179, the Radeon 9500 Pro for $199 and the Radeon 9700 for $299. You can check some Radeon 9500 benchmarks on HardOCP.

There is a new ATI Radeon 8500 driver out, which may fix a problem in No One Lives Forever 2. If Chapter 8 in the game the system hangs for you, you will probably want to get this driver. Thanks NOLF Girl.

ATI sent out this press release today, announcing an All-In-Wonder version of the Radeon 9700 videocard. It will be available this fall, "for less than USD$500". Previews are up at Tech Report and AnandTech.

Word from the fellas over at Tech-Report is that the new ATI All-in-wonder card based on the Radeon 9700 tech should be launching tomorrow. It will be fast, plus you can watch and record porn TV!

ATI has released a new set of Catalyst drivers, v02.3 for WindowsXP, WindowsME, and Windows2K. You can grab them all from FileShack, make sure to uninstall your v02.2 drivers and reboot first though. Thanks HardOCP

ATI has released a patch for the ATI Radeon 9700 cards that are having troubles with Battlefield 1942, Mafia, and The Thing for Windows2K / XP / 98 / ME.  Thanks HardOCP

SimHQ has posted some info, mostly from press releases, on ATI's newest mobile chip, the Mobility Radeon 9000. Extreme Tech goes a bit further already offering benchmarks. It's faster than the mobile GeForce4 but not much, though it does offer pixel and vertex shaders. Update: There's also a HardOCP article on ATI's mobile chip. It includes an interesting quote from John Carmack about the performance (basically, good stuff for a laptop).

HardOCP has posted some actual Radeon 9700 benchmarks with frames per second listed, the card being tested in various games and benchmark apps. It's still pretty damn fast.

There are also reviews at AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, Extreme Tech and Firing Squad. Short version: It kicks ass. A lot. In some AA benchmarks it is allmost 5 times faster than a Ti4600. (R300 - 101fps, Ti4600 - 21fps)

(Oh, HardOCP is slashdotted so their article might be hard to reach. It's not just you.)

The guys at VR-Zone have some details on what ATI is up to. If you recall the Radeon 9700 was announced recently and is looking to show up on shelves in the next month or so with some pretty stellar benchmarks. Well ATI is considering a Radeon 9700 MAXX according to a speech given in China today.

Based on the Radeon 9700 technology with parallel connection of up to 256, ATi is currently examining the possibility of having Dual Radeon 9700 VPUs on a card. Also Quad display outputs is possible with such card. However, there is no official schedule on when such card will be launched.

ATI released a new set of Catalyst drivers yesterday that we uploaded to FileShack but forgot to mention. You can grab the WinXP, Win2K, or Win9x/ME set. They are allegedly much faster in high resolutions.

AMD has slashed prices again, for their Athlon XP and Duron CPUs. The drops are between 5% and 20%, you can read more on CNET.