Articles by Paul Alcorn, Managing Editor: News and Emerging Tech

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

AMD announces 3nm EPYC Turin with 192 cores and 384 threads — 5.4X faster than Intel Xeon in AI work, launches second half of 2024

By Paul Alcorn published 3 June 24

AMD CEO Lisa Su announced at Computex 2024 that the company's next-gen EPYC Turin chips for the data center will launch in the second half of 2024.

AMD unwraps Ryzen AI 300 series ‘Strix Point’ processors — 50 TOPS of AI performance, Zen 5c density cores come to Ryzen 9 for the first time

By Paul Alcorn published 3 June 24

AI hits overdrive

AMD announces Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors launch in July — 16% IPC improvement for four new Ryzen 9, 7, and 5 'Granite Ridge' processors

By Paul Alcorn published 3 June 24

AMD preps its competitor for Intel’s Arrow Lake

Nvidia Rubin revealed as Blackwell successor, powerful Vera CPU coming too

By Mark Tyson published 2 June 24

Rubin to support 8- and 12-Hi HBM4 stacks for ultimate bandwidth.

ASML sets new EUV chipmaking density record, proposes Hyper-NA tools and radical EUV speed boosts

By Paul Alcorn published 28 May 24

Smaller, faster transistors at unprecedented speed.

Lisa Su says AMD is on track to a 100x power efficiency improvement by 2027 — CEO outlines AMD’s advances during keynote at imec’s ITF World 2024

By Paul Alcorn published 23 May 24

AMD CEO Lisa Su took to the stage after winning the imec Innovation Award to explain how the company is on the path to a more than 100x power efficiency improvement by 2027.

Intel next-generation Lunar Lake CPUs launching in Q3, Arrow Lake in Q4 — mobile chips claimed to be 1.4x faster than Qualcomm's X Elite processors

By Paul Alcorn published 20 May 24

AI marketing reaches a fever pitch.

Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer fails to dethrone AMD-powered Frontier on Top500 list, again — claims spot as fastest AI supercomputer with HPL-MxP benchmark instead

By Paul Alcorn published 13 May 24

Intel announced that the Aurora supercomputer is now the fastest AI supercomputer in the world, but it has still fallen short of taking the lead of the fastest system on the Top500 list.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D Review: A Value Gaming Masterpiece

By Paul Alcorn published 6 May 24

Editor\'s Choice

We put AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D through a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to see how it fares against competing Intel processors.

Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2024: A Step Forward

By Avram Piltch published 2 May 24

Here are the 15 most innovative products we have reviewed and covered in the last year.

Intel completes assembly of first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool — addresses cost concerns, preps for 14A process development in 2025

By Paul Alcorn published 18 April 24

Intel Foundry announced it had completed the assembly of the industry's first commercial High Numerical Aperture (High-NA) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) machine in its D1X fab in Oregon.

AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors — Zen 4 and AI engines come to the commercial market

By Paul Alcorn published 16 April 24

AMD is the first with a Pro desktop PC chip with an NPU for AI workloads.

Intel says Lunar Lake will have 100+ TOPS of AI performance — 45 TOPS from the NPU alone meets requirement for next-gen AI PCs

By Paul Alcorn published 9 April 24

At Vision 2024, Intel announced that its Lunar Lake processor, the company's next-gen laptop chip, provides 100+ TOPS of performance in AI workloads, with 45 of those TOPS coming from the NPU alone.

Intel unveils new Xeon 6 branding for Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest processors — efficiency core models launch this quarter; performance-core models come soon after

By Paul Alcorn published 9 April 24

Intel announced new Xeon 6 branding during Vision 2024 event for its Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids data center processors.

Intel details Gaudi 3 at Vision 2024 — new AI accelerator sampling to partners now, volume production in Q3

By Paul Alcorn published 9 April 24

GPUs fall by the wayside as Intel goes all-in on Gaudi for AI.

Intel confirms Microsoft's Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs, next-gen AI PCs require 40 TOPS of NPU performance

By Paul Alcorn published 27 March 24

Intel executives confirmed today that Microsoft's Copilot AI service will soon run locally on PCs and have a requirement for a minimum of 40 TOPS of NPU performance.

Intel shares Microsoft's new AI PC definition, launches AI PC Acceleration Programs and Core Ultra Meteor Lake NUC developer kits at AI conference

By Paul Alcorn published 26 March 24

Intel announced it is launching new Meteor Lake developer kits and expanding its AI PC Acceleration Program with new options for ISVs and IHVs.

Phison's new software uses SSDs and DRAM to boost effective memory for AI training — demos a single workstation running a massive 70 billion parameter model at GTC 2024

By Paul Alcorn published 26 March 24

Phison claims this is the world's first workstation that can run a 70B Llama 2 model.

Working PCIe 6.0 connectivity demoed at GTC — Astera Labs' Aries retimers currently power Nvidia's HGX systems with eight H100 GPUs, likely future Blackwell systems, too

By Paul Alcorn published 26 March 24

Astera Labs demoed working PCIe 6.0 connectivity using its Aries retimers that power Nvidia GPU platforms, among others.

Micron shows massive 256GB DDR5-8800 memory sticks — High-capacity double-height 20-watt MCRDIMM modules come in different flavors

By Anton Shilov published 22 March 24

Micron demonstrates 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCRDIMM modules for Intel's Granite Rapids processors.

Samsung details petabyte SSD subscription service, uses custom-built servers

By Anton Shilov published 22 March 24

Samsung's PBSSD as a Service will use custom-built servers and will be available to service providers.

Intel awarded $8.5 billion in funding for building chipmaking fabs - CHIPS Act funding to boost US semiconductor manufacturing

By Paul Alcorn, Andrew E. Freedman published 20 March 24

Intel also gets a 25% tax credit for up to $100 billion.

Nvidia's generative AI tool delivers a radical 60X performance boost for chipmakers - TSMC and Synopsys are now using the cuLitho software in production

By Paul Alcorn published 18 March 24

Nvidia announced that TSMC and Synopsys have begun using the performance-boosting cuLitho software in production.

Intel Core i9-14900KS Review: The Last Core i9 Hits Record 6.2 GHz at Stock Settings

By Paul Alcorn published 14 March 24

6.2 GHz and a whole lotta power draw.

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G review — the new value iGPU gaming champion

By Paul Alcorn published 3 March 24

We put AMD's new $229 Ryzen 5 8600G "Phoenix" chip through our test suite to see how it ranks against the Intel competition and its own pricier sibling, the Ryzen 7 8700G.

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