Articles by Wayne Williams, Editor

Wayne Williams is a freelancer writing news for TechRadar Pro. He has been writing about computers, technology, and the web for 30 years. In that time he wrote for most of the UK’s PC magazines, and launched, edited and published a number of them too.

Articles by: Wayne Williams

'The purest manifestation of our vision': Framework 12 gives me One Laptop Per Child vibes, and its CEO worked on the legendary OLPC project

By Wayne Williams published 1 March 25

Framework’s newest creation, Laptop 12, was originally designed with students in mind, and is described as the “purest manifestation” of the company’s vision.

A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by Zhong Lab could be used with a variety of materials, taking advantage of rare earths’ powerful, flexible optical properties

Scientists stored data in rare-earth crystal which could one day delivery terabyte-class storage the size of a small grain of rice

By Wayne Williams published 28 February 25

Scientists have found a way to use atomic level defects in crystals as a method of data storage.

World's first 122.88TB SSD gets 'reviewed' with two very odd bedfellows: the controversial DeepSeek and Nvidia's Jetson Orin AI SBC

By Wayne Williams published 27 February 25

Solidigm’s 122.88TB DP-P5336 SSD got tested as part of an experiment with DeepSeek and Nvidia’s Jetson Orin Nano Super motherboard.

This startup wants to back up your data on the Moon in a 'data center' that could probably sit in the palm of your hand

By Wayne Williams published 26 February 25

Lonestar wants to bring data services such as Disaster Recovery and Resilience-as-a-Service to the Moon.

Finally, Samsung's first PCIe 5.0 SSD that you can actually buy is here; after a nearly two-year wait, meet the 9100 Pro

By Wayne Williams published 26 February 25

It took almost two years, but Samsung’s first PCIe 5.0 consumer SSD, the 9100 Pro, has finally arrived.

What an irony! AMD could potentially block Intel deal by invoking agreement put in place to prevent its own sale

By Wayne Williams published 25 February 25

If Broadcom or another buyer does want to acquire Intel, they will have to negotiate a new cross-license agreement with AMD.

Microsoft set to rival Google, IBM with first-of-its-kind quantum chip with topological core architecture

By Wayne Williams published 24 February 25

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip with a Topological Core architecture, paving the way for a one-million-qubit quantum processor.

A GPU or a CPU with 4TB HBM-class memory? Nope, you're not dreaming, Sandisk is working on such a monstrous product

By Wayne Williams published 23 February 25

Sandisk has unveiled High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) for AI workloads which will have a major impact on the $100 billion HBM market.

Glowing server racks inside a data center.

xAI could sign a $5 billion deal with Dell for thousands of servers with Nvidia's GB200 Blackwell AI GPU accelerators

By Wayne Williams published 23 February 25

Reports claim Dell is about to secure a $5 billion deal to supply Elon Musk's xAI with yet more AI servers.

Race to 100TB HDD heats up as Seagate pulls rug under Western Digital, Toshiba feet by acquiring HAMR-specialist

By Wayne Williams published 23 February 25

Seagate is set to buy a specialist in HAMR HDD production, a move which will be bad news for rivals Western Digital and Toshiba.

A data center in every home! Energy company wants to heat your water for (almost) free but there's a catch

By Wayne Williams published 23 February 25

A British Gas-backed trial will see waste heat from data centers used to deliver free hot water to UK homes.

Beyond 100TB, here's how Western Digital is betting on heat dot magnetic recording to reach the storage skies

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

Western Digital is betting on heat dot magnetic recording to take its HDDs to 100TB and beyond.

The end of an era? TSMC, Broadcom could tear apart Intel's legendary business after 57 years by separating its foundry and chip design

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

Broadcom and TSMC reportedly looking to chop Intel in half, with separate interests in its foundry and chip design.

Sandisk's revolutionary new memory promises DRAM-like performance, 4X capacity at half the price

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

Sandisk's upcoming 3D Matrix Memory promises DRAM-like performance at four times the capacity and half the cost.

Sandisk plans 256TB SSD in 2026 and 512TB SSD in 2027 and no, you won't be able to install it in your desktop computer

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

Sandisk plans a 256TB SSD in 2026 and a 512TB SSD in 2027, with a 1PB model on the roadmap.

This is the weirdest laptop I've ever seen and it reminds me of an often-mocked, thoroughly misunderstood Toshiba notebook

By Wayne Williams published 21 February 25

The Bapaco is a a Windows 11 laptop that's also a display and keyboard for Windows, macOS and Android.

Nvidia rival claims DeepSeek world record as it delivers industry-first performance with 95% fewer chips

By Wayne Williams published 20 February 25

Nvidia rival SambaNova claims DeepSeek world record as it delivers industry-first performance with just 16 custom chips.

SDR Drone killer for Framework 16 Laptop

Fancy a drone destroyer? Someone transformed a Framework 16 laptop into a UAV killer thanks to a custom SDR module

By Wayne Williams published 18 February 25

A hardware designer has developed a drone jammer using a custom SDR module for the Framework modular laptop.

Yay, you can now use AMD's fastest ever GPU - AMD's Instinct MI325X AI accelerator has 256GB memory and can run Crysis (sort of)

By Wayne Williams published 18 February 25

Vultr is the first cloud platform to deploy AMD's Instinct MI325X GPU, ahead of Microsoft and Google.

Hell freezes, pigs fly: Rumor has it that Intel could merge with AMD's former foundry in potential multi-billion deal

By Wayne Williams published 17 February 25

Rumors suggest that Intel could merge with GlobalFoundries, AMD's former chip manufacturer, in a potential multi-billion-dollar deal.

The only way is stack! Arm wants to build its own CPU server for hyperscalers, reports say, and AMD won't be happy

By Wayne Williams published 17 February 25

A report says Arm is trying to recruit talent from some of its largest customers to help develop its own chips.

Seagate Exos 28TB Factory Recertified HDD

Hundreds of the world's largest hard disk drive have mysteriously gone on sale online as refurbished model - should you buy them?

By Wayne Williams published 16 February 25

Hundreds of Seagate's Exos 28TB HDDs, the world's largest hard disk drive, have mysteriously gone on sale online as refurbished models - should you buy one?

'Like a field plowed prior to planting': Researchers want to grow lasers, yes lasers, on material commonly found in sand

By Wayne Williams published 16 February 25

Researchers at Imec have found a way to grow lasers directly on silicon, a material commonly found in sand.

Forget about Blu-ray, Fluo-ray discs may well be the future of optical data storage with 10TB capacities for $1

By Wayne Williams published 16 February 25

Optera Data is working on a new optical storage technology with its sights on 10TB capacities for as low as $1.

This $4299 laptop comes with 128GB RAM by default plus an AMD Ryzen AI 9 APU, and I can't wait to test it

By Wayne Williams published 15 February 25

HP's $4299 EliteBook X G1a laptop has 128GB RAM and challenges the most expensive 14-inch MacBook Pro.

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