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

This PSU has enough juice to power four RTX 4090s — the HELA 2500R comes with four 12V-2x6 connectors and requires a special wall plug

By Jowi Morales published 9 June 24

This 2,500-watt PSU can power four high-powered GPUs natively. SilverStone designed for it for professional applications like AI research, and you need a 240-volt outlet to power it.

This AIO cooler is designed to cool two CPUs at once — SilverStone’s new XE360-Dual

By Jowi Morales published 9 June 24

SilverStone introduced the XE360-Dual, which has two water blocks connected in serial, to cool two AMD or Intel server processors using a single radiator.

PNY RTX 4070 Super Blower-Style Card Signed by Jensen Huang

Jensen signs PNY RTX 4070 Super blower card at Computex — proves Nvidia doesn't hate blower-style coolers

By Aaron Klotz published 7 June 24

Blowers are okay as long as they carry a 300W TBP or lower.

Gigabyte Aorus Ice GPU and motherboard showcased at Computex 2024

Gigabyte shows off Aorus Xtreme and Xtreme Ice motherboards, GPUs at Computex

By Christopher Harper published 7 June 24

Gigabyte had plenty of hardware on display at Computex 2024

Silicon Motion's PCIe 5.0 SSD controller is finally coming in Q4 — low-power SSDs will leverage SM2508

By Anton Shilov published 7 June 24

Silicon Motion's SM2508-based SSD can achieve a 14.9 GB/s speed at around 7W.

Adata shows off hybrid air/water cooling tower at Computex — new PSUs and PCIe 5.0 SSDs also on deck

By Dallin Grimm published 6 June 24

Adata's display at Computex includes a pair of new styles of CPU cooler, a line of interlocking fans, a new SFX power supply, and an SSD with intense cooling.

ASRock Arrow Lake-S Taichi Aqua with 10 Type-C Ports

ASRock Z890 Taichi Aqua comes with ten USB Type-C ports, two being Thunderbolt ports

By Aaron Klotz published 6 June 24

ASRock's next generation Taichi Aqua flagship makes radical changes to the rear I/O, deleting all USB Type-A ports in favor of ten USB Type-C ports. Time to upgrade your keyboard and mouse.

Best of Computex 2024: Hardware Evolution Meets the AI Revolution

By Avram Piltch, Matt Safford, Paul Alcorn published 6 June 24

From mini PCs with super-fast graphics to dual-screen monitors and super-powerful CPUs, these are the best products of Computex 2024.

Noctua NH-D15 G2 update has quieter fans, more heatpipes, new offset design

By Mark Tyson published 6 June 24

Scheduled for release sometime this month.

Photograph of TeamGroup's new SSD coolers from the Computex 2024 show floor

Teamgroup shows off SSD cooling including a 120mm radiator — seems a bit overkill for 12W M.2 SSDs

By Christopher Harper published 6 June 24

Teamgroup tests out fancy, innovative, perhaps questionable SSD cooling designs.

ASRock unveils a slew of Arrow Lake-compatible motherboards, including a new Taichi variant with CAMM2 memory

By Aaron Klotz published 6 June 24

ASRock has unveiled a huge list of motherboards at Computex 2024 designed to work with Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake-S desktop processors.

Noctua creates a monstrous cooler for Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip

By Zhiye Liu published 6 June 24

Noctua reveals air CPU coolers for Nvidia H200 Grace Hopper Superchip and Ampere's Altra processors.

Noctua pumpless AIO liquid cooler prototype

Noctua shows off pumpless AIO liquid cooler prototype that uses evaporative cooling

By Aaron Klotz published 6 June 24

Noctua showed off a prototype of a pumpless AIO CPU cooling solution at Computex. The device is a proof of concept that uses evaporative cooling to move heat away from the CPU.

Teamgroup T-Force Dark AirFlow D5 Memory Cooler

Teamgroup's T-Force Dark AirFlow D5 memory cooler looks like a GPU cooler

By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published 6 June 24

Cooling down while looking...cool?

ASRock's 32-inch, 480 Hz OLED monitor is a feast for the eyes and your router

By Les Pounder published 5 June 24

The Phantom Gaming PG032UFS2B has eye-popping color and boosts your Wi-Fi.

ASRock shows off new AMD Ryzen 9000 motherboards

By Jeff Butts published 5 June 24

ASRock has introduced its motherboard lineup to support the AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs.

Kingston unveils new CAMM2 RAM modules at Computex — bold new RAM form factor comes to PC on MSI and Asus boards

By Dallin Grimm published 5 June 24

Kingston's DDR5 CAMM2 module has been shown in person at Computex 2024 in motherboards, making it among the first desktop CAMM2 modules ever.

Intel CEO says China must make its own chips if sanctions become too restrictive, points to EUV as key cutoff point

By Paul Alcorn published 5 June 24

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told Tom's Hardware during a question and answer session at Computex 2024 that China must make its own processors if US sanctions on the latest chips become too restrictive.

Intel Launches 144-core 'Sierra Forrest' Xeon 6 CPUs, Granite Rapids Follows in Q3

By Paul Alcorn published 4 June 24

Intel announced the launch of the company's 144-core Xeon 6 'Sierra Forest' processors.

Intel unwraps Lunar Lake architecture: Up to 68% IPC gain for E-cores, 14% IPC gain for P-Cores

By Paul Alcorn published 4 June 24

Rearchitecting for power and performance.

Qualcomm CEO says Arm taking 50% of the Windows PC market in five years is realistic — some OEMs expect Snapdragon chips to be 60% of their sales within three years

By Paul Alcorn published 4 June 24

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon expects Arm to take over 50% of the Windows PC market in the next five years.

Qualcomm: Snapdragon coming to "all PC form factors," including desktops.

By Les Pounder published 3 June 24

Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon took to the stage to talk about the company's AI advances and how Snapdragon chips will soon be on all PC form factors

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

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