Wayne Williams

Wayne Williams

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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

Xscape Photonics ChromX

This laser technology could save the planet and help AI industry claw back more than $100 billion — half of GPUs are 'wasted' because of limited bandwidth, and this US startup wants to change that

By Wayne Williams published

Xscape Photonics' ChromX laser technology could help AI industry and save the planet

supercomputer

"How do these 'snort your coffee' numbers arise?": Expert questions the validity of Zettascale and Exascale-class AI supercomputers, and presents a simple compelling car analogy to explain not all FLOPs are the same

By Wayne Williams published

Expert questions the validity of Zettascale and Exascale-class AI supercomputers

Infinix X Air Pro+

1Kg, Sub $600 rival to Apple MacBook Air emerges in India — Infinix Air Pro+ has twice the memory, twice the storage, an OLED display but, somehow, is almost half the price

By Wayne Williams published

Infinix Air Pro+ is a 1kg Apple MacBook Air alternative with twice the memory and storage

Planex dial-up modem

Are you nostalgic about 56K dial up internet from the 1990s? Well, this Japanese company is selling an analog 56K modem that can connect to your copper landline — if you have one, of course

By Wayne Williams published

Japanese company is selling a 56K dial-up modem for modern PCs

ASRock Rack TURIN2D48G server motherboard

Want to put 24TB of RAM in your PC? This motherboard can, and will even accommodate 384 AMD EPYC Turin cores and almost 1 petabyte storage

By Wayne Williams published

ASRock Rack's TURIN2D48G-2L+ motherboard can accommodate 384 AMD EPYC Turin cores and almost 1 petabyte storage

Abstract fiber image

Yet another startup wants to crack the LLM code but this time using light; optical pioneer Oriole Networks wants to train LLMs 100x faster with a fraction of the power

By Wayne Williams published

UK startup Oriole Networks wants to train LLMs 100x faster using light.

Loongson 3A6000

Chinese rival to Intel and AMD vows to close performance gap with trio of CPUs nicknamed Three Musketeers

By Wayne Williams published

Chinese chip maker Loongson is launched a trio of CPUs nicknamed Three Musketeers

Samsung's screening process identified new materials for SOM applications

Samsung scientists are working on a new type of memory that could bring RAM like speeds and SSD capacities together

By Wayne Williams published

Samsung has made a breakthrough on a new kind of memory called SOM

RISC-V

Something to make Arm, Intel and AMD squirm; Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google and Samsung will deliver AI-focused presentations at RISC-V Summit

By Wayne Williams published

Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google and Samsung will deliver AI-focused presentations at RISC-V Summit

SanDisk Extreme Pro 2TB

Sandisk quietly puts 2TB SD card on sale — Extreme Pro is as fast as a hard drive, has a lifetime warranty, and is actually cheaper than I'd expect

By Wayne Williams published

2TB SD card is large enough to store over 2,800 minutes of 4K UHD video.

LG business monitors

LG goes supersize with a staggering 20 new business productivity monitors —but fails to hit the mark with a true flagship 4K/5K model to rival Lenovo, Samsung

By Wayne Williams published

UltraWide, QHD and Full HD models are all available from LG.

iKOOLCORE R2 Max

This cheap mini PC packs an Intel Core i3, four 10GbE and 2.5GbE Ethernet ports and can even run Windows — so could it be the perfect home web server?

By Wayne Williams published

iKOOLCORE R2 Max supports up to 32GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD storage

Fujitsu FMV Zero laptop

Meet the 634g Japanese wonder notebook that runs on Intel's latest CPU — it makes the Dell XPS 13 looks overweight, but shame about the battery life

By Wayne Williams published

Fujitsu's FMV Zero is the world's lightest 14-inch laptop, but falls short on battery life.

STMicroelectronics NUCLEO-H7A3ZI-Q

50x faster, 50x thriftier: UK AI startup delivers stunning gains in performance and power consumption using a cheap $30 system board

By Wayne Williams published

AI startup wants to make GPU training obsolete; benchmarks on $30 development board show stunning results.

Crucial clock rriver DDR5 memory

Crucial’s new ultra-fast clock driver DDR5 memory modules bring 2x speed boost for AI PCs, but they aren’t cheap

By Wayne Williams published

Crucial’s new clock driver DDR5 Memory Modules promise 2x speed boost for AI PCs.

Loongson 9A1000 GPGPU

Chinese company hopes to launch its first GPGPU in 2025; but Nvidia's H100 is safe for now, as it is 67x faster than its new AI challenger

By Wayne Williams published

Chinese chip maker Loongson is creating its first GPGPU, a rival to an AMD GPU from 2017

System76 Thelio Astra

System76 and Ampere look to drive innovation in automotive tech with new Arm-powered Linux desktop

By Wayne Williams published

Thelio Astra looks to help boost development of autonomous vehicles.

AMD Epyc Turin 3D model

First AMD EPYC 9965 benchmarks are in; Turin server CPU sets flurry of new world records across wide range of software, but will that be enough to stop Xeon and Arm's forthcoming onslaught?

By Wayne Williams published

First reviews of AMD’s 'Turin' server CPUs shows it's still ahead of Intel, but the gap isn't as wide as you might expect

HyperAccel Latency Processing Unit (LPU) IP

Too little, too late? Bertha Language Processing Unit joins Groq's ultrafast LPU as challenge to Nvidia's formidable GPU firepower grows

By Wayne Williams published

HyperAccel's Bertha LPU aims to challenge Nvidia's GPU stranglehold on AI

Intel D5-P5316 2.5-inch 15.36TB SSD

Want very big SSDs? Here's a little known secret, 15.36TB models are almost as cheap as 8TB ones per terabyte — but there's a catch

By Wayne Williams published

You can buy 15.36TB SSDs at a similar price per terabyte to 8TB models, but there's a catch

Titan A900

World's most powerful desktop PC has 256 EPYC Genoa cores, 6TB (yes TB) RAM and costs only $120,000 — but you will have to bring your own Windows 11 Pro for Workstations OS

By Wayne Williams published

Titan A900 is the world's most powerful desktop with dual EPYC 9124 CPUs

AMD EPYC Embedded 8004 Series

AMD quietly introduced two EPYC CPUs that intrigue me — the 8124p is a 16-core, 125W CPU, while the 8224p is an affordable 24-core ThreadRipper Lite alternative

By Wayne Williams published

AMD has quietly introduced its EPYC Embedded 8004 Series processors

Data Center located in Colombia. Equipment that is responsible for expelling air into the environment: Chiller Liebert HPC-M24 and EC-FAN fans- ECblue—model C116

Data centers could be used as residual power generators as researchers generate 500MWh in a year from a single DC by recycling wasted wind

By Wayne Williams published

ECL builds a 1 gigawatt hydrogen-powered data center to keep up with AI’s insatiable demand for power.

AMD Epyc Turin 3D model

Another big win for AMD as Lenovo adds EPYC 9005 and Instinct MI325X to its ThinkSystem server platform, boosting AI capabilities

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo adds AMD EPYC 9005 and Instinct MI325X to its ThinkSystem servers

GPD Duo

A ridiculously powerful laptop for creatives: With AMD's fastest mobile CPU, 64GB RAM and a pair of OLED screens, GPD Duo may be the best mobile workstation ever

By Wayne Williams published

GPD Duo Dual-Screen is a 13.3-inch productivity laptop with two foldable OLED displays.

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