Better and more capable tool materials allow machine tools to cut at increasingly higher speeds and feeds. Inrecent decades, high speed machining has received an important interest as a technological solution for high productivityto increase economic efficiency in manufacturing. The recent developments of cutting tool materials in high speed ma-chining are reviewed. The appropriate applications of the high speed machining technology are presented. It can concludethat the optimal matching of meehardcal, physical, end chemical properties between teol and workpieee materials is veryimportant in high speed machining. The researeh is very grit beneficial to the design and the selection of re431 materials hihigh speed machining.