Loyd Case, Dave Salvator, Mark Hachman, and Jim Lynch were other original core ET staff.

Topic areas included core PC techniques (CPUs/GPUs), networking, operating systems, software development, display technology, printers, scanners etc.

[6] The announcement noted that along with a complete visual redesign, ExtremeTech would be "widening its scope" to cover new topics that didn't exist when the site was first conceived in 2001.

Sebastian Anthony, previously an editor at AOL's Download Squad software weblog, led the editorial side of the relaunch.

[7] Sebastian Anthony, who led the editorial side of ExtremeTech's relaunch in 2011, left at the end of 2014 to launch Ars Technica in the UK.