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

GDDR7

Fastest ever graphics memory launches but still lags HBM — SK Hynix GDDR7 RAM tops 1.5Tbps and could find its way in more affordable AI GPU cards

By Wayne Williams published

SK Hynix says its mass production of GDDR7 will begin in Q3 and the RAM could be used in affordable AI GPU cards.

Snapdragon DevKit for Windows

Qualcomm quietly debuts Snapdragon X Elite Mini PC that's the perfect alternative to the Apple Mac Mini — and it's not as expensive as you'd think

By Wayne Williams published

Qualcomm quietly debuts Snapdragon X Elite Mini PC that's an affordable alternative to the Apple Mac Mini.

Ampere One Aurora

Breaking the 1000-core barrier: Ampere unveils roadmap for a 512-core CPU as battle for cloud-native market — but is it already too little too late for the lone Arm chip vendor?

By Wayne Williams published

Ampere unveils roadmap for a 512-core CPU, the AmpereOne Aurora for the cloud-native market.

Cevaton Laptop Triple Screen Extender

Bill Gates is a big fan of multi monitors — boost your productivity with the cheapest triple monitor extender on the market right now with this exclusive deal

By Wayne Williams published

Boost your productivity with the cheapest monitor extender on the market right now with this exclusive deal.

Cartoon retro woman screaming in horror at HDMI cables

Researchers find that millions of HDMI cables could betray their owners by transmitting data to eavesdroppers — here is what you could do to avoid data leakage

By Wayne Williams published

Researchers have managed to eavesdrop on data leaking from HDMI cables by using AI.

ADATA SC750

This tiny USB flash drive is a ridiculously fast external SSD designed with Apple ProRes files in mind — but I'm definitely not sure about its design

By Wayne Williams published

Adata's SC750 flash drive has a built-in USB-C connector and supports Apple ProRes video recording.

Cerabyte platter

Firm that kills hard disk drives with expensive SSDs invests in startup that wants to replace tape with ceramic slabs — Pure Storage invests in Cerabyte in a bid to become the Nvidia of Enterprise Storage

By Wayne Williams published

Pure Storage invests in Cerabyte's ceramic storage system to offer sustainable, immutable data solutions.

Wi-Fi Fall Protection system

Like magic: new Wi-Fi solution can detect distressed seniors using wireless signals only — Gamgee's game-changing fall detection system could also be used for intruder detection and much more

By Wayne Williams published

Gamgee's Wi-Fi technology can identify seniors in trouble and home intruders without the need for wearables or cameras.

Shockbyte Tool Cupboard

Game server hosting provider Shockbyte partners with one of the largest survival games in the industry

By Wayne Williams published

Shockbyte has entered into a partnership with Facepunch Studios to offer exclusive in-game content for Rust players.

Micron 9550 NVMe SSD

Big and speedy: this 30.72TB behemoth is world's fastest enterprise SSD and obliterates Samsung's flagship 990 Pro champion

By Wayne Williams published

Micron 9550 data center SSD comes in up to 30.72TB capacity and obliterates Samsung's flagship 990 Pro.

Geekom Mini IT13 mini PC on a white background

This is probably the most powerful mini PC you can get for under $800 — with cracking 14-core Intel Core i9 CPU, 32GB RAM, a 2TB SSD and Windows 11 Pro, the Mini IT13 is an exceptional workhorse

By Wayne Williams published

GEEKOM Mini IT13 is powered by a 14-core Intel Core i9 CPU, with 32GB RAM, and you can save $127 on it right now.

Die Welle

At almost 131 feet high, the world's tallest projector screen is so big that it needs seven ultra-bright laser projectors to make it work

By Wayne Williams published

At almost 131 feet high, the world's tallest projector screen is the centerpiece of an ocean theme exhibition in Germany.

UnifyDrive UT2

This 16TB SSD NAS is so small it fits in your backpocket — and yet it packs a full-fledged Arm PC, has a battery, delivers personal cloud storage and can even transform into a wireless drive

By Wayne Williams published

UnifyDrive UT2 16TB SSD NAS is so small it fits in your back pocket, but packs a full-fledged Arm PC.

Samsung CXL memory

Samsung plans to mass produce 256GB RAM that supports key tech that will take AI to next level — CXL-enabled DRAM will expand computing and machine learning capabilities but at a premium

By Wayne Williams published

Samsung set to mass-produce 256GB CXL-enabled DRAM by the end of the year to boost AI.

UDock X 15.6 Pro Wireless Lapdock

What looks like a laptop but ain't a laptop? Chinese vendor releases innovative phone docking station that gets its inspiration from long lost Asus Transformer project

By Wayne Williams published

UPERFECT's UDock X 15.6 Pro Wireless Lapdock turns your smartphone into a laptop, and can wirelessly charge your device.

TT-QuietBox

So cheap! You can now buy two liquid-cooled AI workstations with 192GB GDDR6 memory for the price of one Nvidia H100 GPU — hardware startup from AMD chip legend runs on RISC-V and promises to disrupt AI market

By Wayne Williams published

Tenstorrent is selling Intel Xeon powered TT-LoudBox and AMD EPYC powered TT-QuietBox AI workstations.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd

"Maybe TSMC should buy Arm": Sleeping giant that makes tens of millions of chips for Intel, Nvidia, AMD reveals staggering profits and hints at a price hike to please shareholders

By Wayne Williams published

TSMC, the world's ninth most valuable company, enjoyed giant profits thanks to the AI boom.

broadcom

OpenAI is talking to $700 billion chip giant you've never heard of to produce chip capable of rivaling Nvidia — Broadcom is bigger than Intel, AMD, Arm and Qualcomm together

By Wayne Williams published

OpenAI and Broadcom discuss plans to develop AI processor to rival those made by Nvidia.

Windows 3.1 running on a 2021 iPad Pro in keyboard mode

Southwest Airlines avoided CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage because it’s still running Windows 3.1 — fourth-largest US airline remained free of BSoD errors because its OS hasn't been updated in decades

By Wayne Williams published

Southwest Airlines avoided CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage due to running Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

AWS Graviton4

Intel and AMD won't like that: Detailed benchmarking of Amazon Graviton4 shows fantastic performance/price — this is the biggest server CPU threat yet to x86 duopoly and it won't go away

By Wayne Williams published

Comprehensive benchmarking of AWS Graviton4 shows Arm processor is a threat to Intel and AMD.

Fugaku supercomputer

Fujitsu is planning the most powerful CPU ever for its supercomputer — launching in 2027, 288-core Monaka abandons HBM, will use PCIe 6.0 and 2nm process but will it be enough to fend off x86?

By Wayne Williams published

Fujitsu's Monaka could be the most powerful CPU ever when it launches in 2027.

Parallels RAS

Parallels is giving Citrix users free licenses worth thousands of dollars in a bid to migrate them to Parallel RAS — Canadian developer highlights lesser complexity, single licensing model and lower costs

By Wayne Williams published

Parallels is giving Citrix users free licenses worth thousands of dollars in a bid to migrate them to Parallel RAS.

ORICO Data Matrix Ultra

Western Digital teams with storage startup to deliver Apple-inspired, Mac-proof storage solution that can scale to 560TB — Orico Data Matrix Ultra set to compete with ThunderBay Flex 8

By Wayne Williams published

Data Matrix Ultra is an Apple inspired storage solution that combines SSDs with Western Digital HDDs.

LG 32SR75U-W

This 4K monitor can run Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 without a PC — LG's gorgeous rival to Samsung's M7 Smart Monitor debuts but fails to match it pricewise or sizewise

By Wayne Williams published

LG's new 4K smart monitor can run Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 without a PC - but is dearer than Samsung's rival.

Temu shopping

Temu, Shein and Aliexpress are attracting US customers in their millions, poll shows — and that's despite the fact the vast majority do not trust these online Chinese retailers in the first place

By Wayne Williams published

Chinese retailers Temu, Shein and Aliexpress are attracting US customers in their millions, despite widespread distrust.

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