Wayne Williams

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 AmpereOne CPU

Softbank set to buy Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion and could integrate it with Arm and Graphcore

By Wayne Williams published

Arm's Japanese owner is buying Ampere, Arm's only independent server chip vendor, for $6.5 billion.

AMD Instinct MI355X Accelerator

AMD signs huge multi-billion dollar deal with Oracle to build a cluster of 30,000 MI355X AI accelerators

By Wayne Williams published

Oracle has announced it is buying 30,000 AMD Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.

Kioxia LC9 2.5 SSD

After 7 years, Exadrive's 100TB 2.5-inch SSD is finally superseded by a far superior 122.88TB model from Kioxia

By Wayne Williams published

Kioxia has unveiled a massive 122.88TB 2.5-inch SSD with PCIe Gen5 interface, targeting AI applications.

Data center server room lit with green lights

Microsoft is MIA as Amazon, Meta, Google and others join consortium to triple nuclear energy output by 2050

By Wayne Williams published

Amazon, Meta and Google sign a pledge to triple nuclear energy output by 2050, but where are Microsoft and Oracle?

TeamGroup D500R ISD WORM SD card

This SD card is the spiritual child of the CD-ROM (and the DVD-ROM) as it can only be written on once

By Wayne Williams published

TeamGroup’s new D500R WORM SD card is ideal for archival storage but can only be written to once.

HP LaserJet 8501x

HP launches world's first printers that can resist quantum computer attacks

By Wayne Williams published

HP has introduced a range of new business printers that can resist quantum computer attacks.

HP EliteBook 6 G1q

What a surprise! HP positions Qualcomm as AMD's only rival in fiercely contested 40+ TOPS business laptop market

By Wayne Williams published

HP has launched a new EliteBook 6 AI laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor.

HP EliteBook 8 G1a 13-inch

HP launches its first modular laptop: EliteBook 8 G1 is designed to be repaired and upgraded in minutes

By Wayne Williams published

HP's new EliteBook 8 G1 series laptops take a modular approach, so you can easily upgrade and replace important components.

HP rebranding

HP follows Dell by simplifying almost its entire PC range across laptops and desktops, just in time for AI

By Wayne Williams published

HP has launched a collection of AI laptops, and come up with a new branding structure for them.

26TB WD Red Pro HDD

Western Digital introduces 26TB WD Red Pro HDDs for RAID and NAS systems at a surprisingly low price

By Wayne Williams published

Western Digital introduces a surprisingly affordable 26TB WD Red Pro HDDs for RAID and NAS systems.

HAMR

Seagate reportedly sold two billion GBs worth of storage to two of the world's largest tech companies

By Wayne Williams published

Seagate recently sold one exabyte’s worth of HAMR HDDs to two of the world's largest tech companies.

Oracle

Bluehost owner is moving to Oracle Cloud, so could thousands of websites be about to migrate?

By Wayne Williams published

Newfold Digital, parent company of Bluehost and HostGator, is moving over to Oracle Cloud.

Zuckerberg Meta AI

Meta powers ahead with conscious chip uncoupling with Nvidia as it tests its first in-house training AI-PU

By Wayne Williams published

Reports say Meta’s in-house AI training CPU, produced by TSMC, is almost ready for deployment.

Gachapon Capsure Station

Somewhere in Japan is a dispenser where you can buy toy rack servers complete with cute Dell PowerEdge 2U servers

By Wayne Williams published

You can get toy rack servers, modeled after real products from Dell, Cisco, and A10 Networks, in Japanese vending machines

Nvidia RTX 6000

Details of Nvidia's fastest video card ever leak; RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU will have 96GB GDDR7 ECC memory

By Wayne Williams published

Details of Nvidia's fastest video card ever, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU, have been spotted online.

Global Special Forces server

AI server designed for Chinese military use wins major global design award in Europe

By Wayne Williams published

An AI server for Chinese military forces has won a major global design award.

Bolt Zeus 2c26-032 PCIe card

This GPU vendor I've never heard of claims its card is 10x faster than an Nvidia RTX 5090 at real time path tracing

By Wayne Williams published

Bolt Graphics claims its forthcoming Zeus GPU is the fastest graphics card ever.

EDMONTON, CANADA - FEBRUARY 10: A woman uses a cell phone displaying the Open AI logo, with the same logo visible on a computer screen in the background, on February 10, 2025, in Edmonton, Canada

T-Mobile rival is giving free ChatGPT Plus, worth hundreds, to its subscribers - but there's a catch

By Wayne Williams published

Orange France's new 5G+ plan includes a year's worth of free ChatGPT Plus, as well as Netflix.

Meta QLC Server

Facebook engineers say bigger hard disk drives is making one critical metric far, far worse

By Wayne Williams published

Facebook engineers say that it's time for QLC flash to solve the problem of slower hard disk drives in data centers.

Glowing server racks inside a data center.

The dirty little secret about AI hardware that you should know about: server vendors have to wrestle with wafer thin margins and bigger customers

By Wayne Williams published

Thin margins make AI server sales a challenging business for the likes of Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.

International Space Station

Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space

By Wayne Williams published

IBM’s Red Hat has teamed up with Axiom Space to send a data center to the International Space Station this spring.

Samsung NAND

Well, that's unexpected: Samsung will team up with its fiercest Chinese rival to produce next gen NAND flash

By Wayne Williams published

Samsung has signed an agreement with China’s YMTC to use its bonding technology in the production of 400-layer NAND flash memory.

Molecular hard drive

Chinese researchers are looking to create a revolutionary type of hard drive based on organic materials but huge unknowns remain

By Wayne Williams published

Chinese researchers want to create revolutionary molecular hard drives, but we have questions.

Cortical Labs CL1

A breakthrough in computing: Cortical Labs' CL1 is the first living biocomputer and costs almost the same as 'Apple's best failure'

By Wayne Williams published

Cortical Labs' CL1 is the world’s first commercialized biological computer with real neurons on a silicon chip.

IBM FlashSystem C200

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

By Wayne Williams published

The writing could be on the wall for HDDs as IBM debuts its FlashSystem C200 storage system.

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