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

Samsung BM1743 SSD

Samsung shows insides of its 128TB SSD in all its glory but with a weird caveat — QLC-based BM1743 won't go on sale anytime soon and has a very short but strange 1-month retention

By Wayne Williams published

Samsung has been showing off its future 128TB SSD, BM1743, including the internals

Khadas Mind

Plucky startup beats Dell, Lenovo and HP by putting first Lunar Lake mini PC on sale — and yes, it even offers a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU

By Wayne Williams published

Khadas Mind is the first mini PC to be powered by Intel's new Lunar Lake processor

Oracle

One of the world's largest software firms is building a data center with not one but three nuclear reactors — Oracle wants to build world's most powerful supercomputer ever, yes, even more powerful than Colossus

By Wayne Williams published

Oracle plans to build a data center powered by with not one but three nuclear reactors.

SK Hynix

Whodunnit: SK Hynix rejected $374 million advanced payment from Nvidia rival to ringfence HBM stock — and instead, Samsung competitor signed $749 billion dollar deal with Nvidia

By Wayne Williams published

SK Hynix declined a $374 million advance from an AI accelerator firm, opting instead to supply $749 million worth of HBM to Nvidia

Nano Nuclear Energy Zeus micro reactor

Micro nuclear reactors could cost as little as $20 million and launch by 2031 — but will it be enough for data center operators and the AI industry

By Wayne Williams published

Low cost micro nuclear reactors could be powering data centers by 2031.

MTIA chip

Meta showcases the hardware that will power recommendations for Facebook and Instagram — low-cost RISC-V cores and mainstream LPDDR5 memory are at the heart of its MTIA recommendation inference CPU

By Wayne Williams published

Meta has revealed details of its next Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chip

Microsoft Maia 100

Microsoft deliberately chose to use old tech for its Nvidia GPU rival — Maia 100 AI accelerator uses HBM2E memory and the mysterious ability to 'unlock new capabilities' via firmware update

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft's Maia 100 AI accelerator uses HBM2E memory and can 'unlock new capabilities' via firmware update

Cerebras AI inference

'It is obscenely fast' — Biggest rival to Nvidia demos million-core super AI inference chip that obliterates the DGX100 with 44GB of super fast memory and you can even try it for free

By Wayne Williams published

Cerebras demos million-core super AI inference chip and you can try it for free

Intel OCI chiplet

'AMD should bite the bullet and buy them out' — Intel reveals game-changing technology for enterprise, but with its share price at its lowest in a decade, is it too little too late?

By Wayne Williams published

Intel showcases its optical compute interconnect (OCI), the industry's first fully integrated bidirectional optical I/O chiplet.

Accelerated Compute Fabric SuperNIC

Forget about gigabit network cards, a startup you never heard of wants to sell you a terabit SuperNIC to power AI data centers of tomorrow — but don't expect it to make your broadband go faster

By Wayne Williams published

Enfabrica showed off its ACF-S at Hot Chips 2024

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This is getting ridiculous! Samsung preparing a 256TB SSD for AI servers only, just weeks after showing off 128TB model

By Wayne Williams published

At Semicon Taiwan 2024, Samsung teased a mammoth 256TB SSD for AI servers

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Data about AMD's next generation Threadripper 9000 high performance CPU surfaces — mention of Zen5-based, 96-core super chip point to a 2025 release of world's most powerful prosumer processor

By Wayne Williams published

Speculation suggests AMD could announce Threadripper 9000 soon.

Tesla has a not-so-secret plan to replace a fundamental-but-flawed building block of the Internet — Musk's Exascale DOJO supercomputer will use TTPoE instead of the universal TCP and wants the world to embrace it

By Wayne Williams published

Tesla wants to replace TCP with its own Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE) designed for its DOJO supercomputer.

XiangShan

'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC

By Wayne Williams published

New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil with XiangShan's dual RISC-V processors

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Expert questions huge AI investments from Microsoft, Amazon and Google and warns of possible 'Sugar Daddy Boomerang effect' that could potentially end very badly

By Wayne Williams published

Tech giants' investments in AI startups potentially returning as cloud revenue.

18.7K resolution 9×7 digital cinema camera

Even better than the Sphere's Big Sky? One-of-a-kind video camera with staggering 18.7K sensor delivers up to 268 million pixels and can fill its onboard 8TB SSD in 50 minutes

By Wayne Williams published

One-of-a-kind video camera has a 18.7K sensor and delivers up to 268 million pixels

Tesla's Cortex AI training supercluster

This is what $1 billion worth of AI GPUs look like — Elon Musk publishes video tour of Cortex, X's AI training supercluster powered by Nvidia's now obsolete H100

By Wayne Williams published

Elon Musk has provided a short video glimpse of Tesla's AI supercluster, Cortex

INNOCN 49 Inch 5K Ultrawide Curved Gaming Monitor

This is the cheapest 5K monitor you can buy right now — it's great for gamers and even better for productivity fans because of its KVM

By Wayne Williams last updated

INNOCN 49 Inch 5K Ultrawide Curved Gaming Monitor is available for a huge discount off the usual price.

Sage Geosystems geothermal energy

Ahead of US Elections, energy deal will see Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp run on hot air — Meta signs contract with Sage Geosystems for its US data centers

By Wayne Williams published

Meta signs contract with Sage Geosystems to power its US data centers with geothermal energy.

Tech giants are looking to repurpose old power stations for data center demand

By Wayne Williams published

The likes of Microsoft, Amazon and Google are looking to repurpose old power stations to meet data center demand.

LG Smart Park in Changwon

The HVAC "gold rush" — how the company behind your washing machine now wants to cool data centers

By Wayne Williams published

LG wants to expand its Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) business to cool data centers.

Green concrete for data centers

Talk about rock solid — tech giants unite to create global standard on... concrete?

By Wayne Williams published

Open Compute Project has partnered with tech giants to push the use of "green concrete" in data center construction.

Lenovo Yoga Portal

Lenovo unveils cheaper Apple Mac Studio workstation alternative — Yoga Portal mini PC is a copy of the ThinkCenter Neo Ultra but has a much faster GPU

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo's Yoga Portal mini PC is a copy of the Thinkcenter Neo Ultra for the Chinese market, with a much faster GPU.

TP-Link Archer BE3600 WiFi 7 router

Cheapest ever WiFi 7 router is an extraordinarily good deal — $99 TP-Link Archer router has five Gigabit Ethernet ports and even comes with a VPN server

By Wayne Williams published

TP-Link Archer BE3600 WiFi 7 router has five Gigabit Ethernet ports, comes with a VPN server, and only costs $99.

Micron 2650 client SSD

Micron's game-changing budget DRAMless SSD could spell the end of low performance SATA drives — independent reviews show it trounces Samsung's 990 EVO on popular benchmarks

By Wayne Williams published

Micron's DRAMless 2650 SSD performed well in benchmarking tests, trouncing Samsung's 990 EVO and others.

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