Articles by Paul Alcorn, Editor-in-Chief

As a teenager, Paul scraped up enough money to buy a 486-powered PC with a turbo button (yes, a turbo button). Back when floppies were still popular he was already chasing after the fastest spinners for his personal computer, which led him down the long and winding storage road, covering enterprise storage. His current focus is on consumer processors, though he still keeps a close eye on the latest storage news. In his spare time, you’ll find Paul hanging out with his kids or indulging his love of the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals.

Articles by: Paul Alcorn

Intel hedges its bet for High-NA EUV with the 14A process node — an alternate Low-NA technique has identical yield and design rules

By Paul Alcorn published 2 May 25

Intel has not yet fully committed to using the new High-NA EUV chipmaking tool in production and has an alternative production flow of its 14A node that uses standard Low-NA EUV as a backup plan.

Intel's experiment with on-package CPU liquid cooling solution

Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs - package-level approach maximizes performance, reduces size and complexity

By Kunal Khullar published 30 April 25

Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs

Intel details 14A performance and new 'Turbo Cells' that unlock maximum CPU and GPU frequency

By Paul Alcorn published 30 April 25

I. Am. Speed.

Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2025: Surprise and Delight

By Avram Piltch published 29 April 25

These are the most innovative products of the last year.

Intel Foundry Roadmap Update - New 18A-PT variant that enables 3D die stacking, 14A process node enablement

By Paul Alcorn last updated 29 April 25

Intel's new CEO Lip Bu-Tan took to the stage at the company's Intel Foundry Direct 2025 event here in San Jose, California to outline the company's progress on its foundry initiative.

Intel's AI PC chips aren't selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom

By Paul Alcorn published 24 April 25

Intel's AI PC revolution will have to wait.

Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate

By Paul Alcorn published 24 April 25

Workforce and management cuts to become more severe.

We tested Intel's new '200S Boost' feature: 7% higher gaming performance thanks to memory overclocking, now covered by the warranty

By Paul Alcorn published 21 April 25

Memory and fabric overclocking now covered by the warranty wrapper.

Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips

By Paul Alcorn published 1 April 25

Five nodes in four years is nearly accomplished.

The week in chip news: Nvidia's GTC 2025 blitz, new NVMe HDDs and watercooled SSD, Intel's restructuring begins

By Paul Alcorn published 23 March 25

We cover the biggest news from Nvidia's annual GTC event, along with the latest news from the Intel shakeup and a slew of new storage devices tailored for AI.

The week in chip news: Intel gets a new CEO, China chip smuggling, AMD dominates

By Paul Alcorn published 15 March 25

We cover the biggest stories of the week.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review: Stunning gaming performance meets top-tier productivity

By Paul Alcorn last updated 12 March 25

Editor's Choice

We put AMD's flagship $699 Ryzen 9 9950X3D through our full gamut of benchmarks, finding that it is among the fastest CPUs for gaming and productivity on the market.

How to Check Your PC's CPU Temperature

By Paul Alcorn last updated 1 March 25

How can you check your CPU's temperature and what's a good or normal range? We break it down for you.

Best CPUs for Workstations 2025

By Paul Alcorn last updated 6 February 25

We've picked the best CPUs for work, sorted by price range and needs, based on our extensive testing.

Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and previous-gen chips

By Paul Alcorn published 18 January 25

We tested Intel's fix for its lackluster 'Arrow Lake' Core Ultra 200S and found it doesn't have any meaningful impact.

AMD says Intel's 'horrible product' is causing Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages

By Paul Alcorn published 9 January 25

Team Blue in the rearview.

AMD's first RDNA 4 GPU die pictured: Navi 48 around 390 mm2, targeting mainstream gamers

By Anton Shilov published 8 January 25

AMD's higher-end Navi 48 is smaller than both Navi 21 and Navi 31.

Nvidia's powerful RTX 5090 PCB is amazingly small yet pumps 575W of power

By Anton Shilov published 7 January 25

Nvidia completely redesigns PCB of GeForce RTX 5090 Foundry Edition graphics card as its power consumption nears 600W.

Here's all the silicon AMD launched at CES 2025 - family die photos of Strix Halo, Krackan Point, Ryzen 9000X3D, Fire Range, and Hawk Point Refresh

By Hassam Nasir published 7 January 25

AMD has shared a few snippets of all processors that it launched at CES.

Six screens displaying Panther Lake ODM systems; three unique laptops and two mini dev systems.

Intel shows off working Panther Lake systems at CES — Xe3 GPU cores power Intel sneak peek

By Dallin Grimm published 7 January 25

Intel's press demos at CES 2025 include three ODM laptops and two mini dev kits for Panther Lake, powered by Xe3 Celestial GPU architecture.

AMD explains the missing RDNA 4 GPUs in its CES 2025 livestream

By Paul Alcorn published 7 January 25

We met with AMD executives David McAfee and Frank Azor to discover why the company's hotly-anticipated RDNA 4 GPUs were missing from its CES 2025 livestream.

AMD Launches ‘Fire Range’ HX3D mobile processor with game-boosting 3D V-Cache, other HX Series SKUs built on Zen 5 desktop CPU silicon

By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25

AMD announced its Ryzen 9000HX series of laptop chips here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, including its flagship model that it bills as the world’s best mobile processor for gaming and content creation.

AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops

By Hassam Nasir published 6 January 25

Ryzen AI spreads its wings.

AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors

By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25

AMD lands another blow on Intel’s troubled Arrow Lake.

AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores

By Paul Alcorn published 6 January 25

Disruption is a daily thing.

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