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Dave Altavilla

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With 18 years of sales engineering experience in the Semiconductor industry, Dave Altavilla founded HotHardware.com over 15 years ago with perspective as an industry insider and a passion for the wonders of system-level development and performance that culminate into next generation, cutting-edge devices of tomorrow. Cultivated with the sweat-equity of time spent in the engineering backrooms and offices of Chief Architects of Wall Street bellwethers like Motorola, Cisco and EMC, Dave's insight into the design and manufacturing of leading-edge technologies, brings a laser-sharp understanding of what it takes to deliver a best-of-class product to market. Dave handles final editorial responsibilities of HotHardware's content, along with the site's creative vision and business development efforts. In addition to feature product launch articles at HotHardware for major OEM releases, Dave is also a published author in various technology-based print publications and has been a featured guest on various webcasts and Tech radio shows. In his spare time Dave likes to spend time on the ocean and coaching youth Baseball.  - Contact: davea(at)hothardware(dot)com and follow him on Twitter if you like. He also has an About.me page here. 

Recent posts

Today Rob evaluates MSI's nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition based P4N Diamond motherboard.  We inspect its bundle, layout, BIOS, overclockability, and compare its performance to a handful of other boards powered by competing chipsets.   Check it out here!... Read more...
  Intel's launch of their next generation Pentium Extreme Edition 955 dual-core processor last month, marked a solid improvement in overall performance for what is to be the last core iteration utilizing the Pentium 4 Netburst architecture.  While this Intel dual-core kicker, essentially beefing up a pair or Prescott dies in a single... Read more...
My right-hand man, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta (aka the Backbone of HH), checked in with me this AM with some super-stealth spy photos from the backrooms of the CES show in Vegas!  What we have for you here is one of the significantly more innovative products we've seen at the show this year, courtesy of... Read more...
Our latest off-color HotHardware release is up for grabs again this morning – Old School.  It's a brand-new year, and Sully rings in the New Year with some cheerful ramblings, as always... NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. ME TOO. Direct Link: http://www.hothardware.com/school/index.cfm This is a fun one folks! ... Read more...
As our good friend Scott over at Tech Report points out in his "TR Awards 2005", both ATi and NVIDIA have been more than capable of earning the infamous "meaty middle digit" award with product launches that equate to nothing more than science projects or noise-makers.  Evidence of this you ask?  Well the GeForce... Read more...
A GeForce 7800GT with no fans?  Better make sure that case has plenty of ventilation and a little extra slot space for the cooler on this thing! VR-Zone lit it up and it's typical Asus top-notch stuff.The temperature of the N7800GT under load seems directly related to the airflow of the CPU fan. Those with a weak CPU fan can expect to... Read more...
Looks like ATi is gearing up to give NVIDIA a run for their money in the integrated video motherboard chipset space.  X600-like graphics on board; smells like it has HTPC all over it.  The Inq posted the skinny on this yesterday but I was too lazy to snap this up at the time... sincere apologies. Really...The next generation of chipsets... Read more...
Please pardon our appearance as we are currently in the midst of a new server migration for the main HotHardware.com web engine.  Yes, we're aware of a few random broken images and will have all files reloaded shortly.  Thanks for your patience.  Marco broke it... :) ... Read more...
It seems as though supposedly Intel is planning to drop the "Intel Inside" logo and slogan, come the new year, at least according to the Inq.  Fact, fiction?  Who knows for sure but Intel definitely seems poised and ready for a change in the consumer processor space. The change is part of some other branding ideas... Read more...
Season's Greetings - From Our Family, To You And Yours... Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays !! Dave, Marco , Jeff, Rob, Sean, Matt and the rest of the HotHardware.com Team ... Read more...
  No question about it, Flash Memory devices have taken on the Consumer Tech industry by storm.  Flash memory is utilized in so many different applications these days, from Cell Phones and PDAs, to MP3 players and Digital Cameras, that it's hard to imagine a world before the Flash memory was invented.  However, thanks to some... Read more...
Brother Marco ought to get a kick out of this one.  Commodor, VIC 20 and PET poised for a comeback? As LL would say, don't call it a come-back, I've been here for years..."A Dutch consumer media company is hoping it can tap the power of the VIC 20, the PET and the Commodore 64 to launch a new wave of products, including a home media center... Read more...
Remember to get your entries in for a chance to win one of three ECS i945-based Motherboard and Pentium D 830 Dual Core Processor Combos. Contest/Give-away Rules and Details here! ... Read more...
Stealth took the Asus P5N32 SLI Deluxe for spin and gave us his impressions of the board here with full analysis.  Dual X16 PCI Express Graphics slots in SLI comes to the Intel platform courtesy of Asus and NVIDIA.  Check it out. ... Read more...
OK, so we're dropping this week's Old School update from Sully in here and then we're gonna duck.... If the title doesn't get ya, Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunctions and pre-dipped chips ought to! Sully sounds off again, with "The Old School Perspective": Xbox 360, I think NOT  ... Read more...
I'm not one to toot my own horn typically (well OK, maybe just a little) but this article over at ZDNet speaks volumes about our little "community" here on the net.  We've been growing in leaps and bounds at HotHardware.com and like the technology we cover, so has the online industry, your influence on technology and your buying... Read more...
On this day of Thanksgiving we'd like extend our sincere appreciation to you our readers and friends here at HotHardware.com.  Living in place like the United States, with the many gifts and privileges we're afforded, there are just so many things we can all be thankful for.  For example, the Disco Turkey... Happy Thanksgiving all! ... Read more...
And I thought our little shop here at HotHardware had some hot-stuff hardware capacity coming on line with our new fancy-pants Dual 3GHz Xeon front end web box.  Google on the other hand likes to throw a few thousand Opterons at a time at the situations and own the backbone connection as well.  Oofaa..."The probable answer lies in... Read more...
Legion Hardware has a look at the A8N32 SLI Deluxe tonight as well.  Our take can be found here, with recent updates.The A8N-SLI Deluxe is now worth just $170 US, so what has ASUS done to justify the A8N32-SLI Deluxe price premium? Well they have actually done quite a bit, as the board now includes an 8-phase power design and a seriously... Read more...
When our Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe article first launched on 10/18/05, we reported to you our findings based on the hardware and related driver versions we had in hand at the time.  Unfortunately the Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard we tested in comparison to the A8N32 SLI Deluxe, needed a new BIOS update to take advantage of NVIDIA's recently... Read more...
So it's probably obvious by now that we've been re-investing a little bit in things around here lately. All for your benefit of course!  :)  Last week we launched the new site design and asp.net backend database which, all told, went relatively smoothly.  Today we just got the high sign from our host, Data 393, that our new... Read more...
 Well now, there's a surprise eh?  Welcome to HotHardware.com's 5th edition site.  As you can see we've revamped the graphics a bit courtesy of our in-house stylizers Mario Mirabella and Marco Chiappetta (team Cinzano baby!).  And of course there's our Ultra Code Ninja (UCN for short) Dominic Plouffe, our Canadian connection,... Read more...
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