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 blackmarket for Nvidia H100, A100 AI GPUs is exploding — US-imposed export sanctions cause Chinese buyers to come up with imaginative techniques to get their hands on precious cargo

By Wayne Williams published 12 July 24

Chinese buyers are smuggling advanced Nvidia chips into the country in defiance of US-imposed export sanctions.

Need extra protection online? We rated this antivirus five stars — and it's a stunning 79% off ahead of Amazon Prime Day

By Wayne Williams published 12 July 24

Get Bitdefender Total Security for a stunning 79% off its usual price ahead of Amazon Prime Day.

Nvidia promises up to 700% return on investment on GPU doing AI inference work as world's most valuable company continues journey towards $4 trillion market cap

By Wayne Williams published 11 July 24

Nvidia says there's huge profits to be made from investing in GPUs, especially for inference work.

This video editing monitor is 40% off but lacking one major feature — so you might be better off waiting for Amazon Prime Day

By Wayne Williams published 11 July 24

Acer Nitro VG271U is 40% off right now, making it a good choice for video editing or office use.

Someone plugged a huge colored fan on top of this tiny PC to deliver the cheapest 8845HS mini PC workstation to date — incredibly small barebone Topton Mini PC sells for much less than you'd think

By Wayne Williams published 10 July 24

Topton RGB Color Mini PC is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor and comes with a colorful fan on top.

Rakuten Drive review

By Wayne Williams, Bryan M Wolfe last updated 9 July 24

Updated New Rakuten Drive cloud service offers unlimited file transfers.

Is the Qualcomm X Elite ready to take on business users? Two reviews of HP's gorgeous new EliteBook Ultra laptop deliver mixed messages — and the jury is still out

By Wayne Williams published 9 July 24

Reviews of HP's new Qualcomm X Elite-powered EliteBook Ultra laptop deliver mixed messages.

Samsung hints at 122.88TB SSD as it quietly releases a 61.44TB model — world's largest NAND maker finally competes with Solidigm for top capacity crown, but you won't be able to use these in your PC

By Wayne Williams published 8 July 24

Samsung's new data center SSD will be available in 61.44TB capacity, with potential to scale up to 122.88TB.

Student rediscovers thin client concept, booting Linux from Google Drive — a great proof of concept but one that has very limited use in the real world

By Wayne Williams published 8 July 24

A student managed to get Linux booting from Google Drive, but with limited real world benefits.

This is the chip that could feature in the world's largest SSD — Kioxia launches 2Tb NAND chip and key partner Pure Storage may use it in its 150TB SSD DirectFlash modules

By Wayne Williams published 7 July 24

Kioxia's 2Tb QLC chips, utilizing eighth-generation BiCS FLASH technology, could be used in Pure Storage's 150TB SSD.

A graphic image of a cloud set in a digital background.

UK cloud hosting company expands in US as global demand for managed hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems explodes

By Wayne Williams published 7 July 24

Hyve Managed Hosting says it has doubled its US user base in six months off the back of demand for managed hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems.

Samsung's SSD rival has just released one of the world's fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs — no, it won't beat Crucial's superfast T705 but its no-frills approach means it's likely to be much cheaper

By Wayne Williams published 7 July 24

SK Hynix is targeting OEMs with its new super-fast PCIe 5.0 PCB01 SSD, aimed at on-device AI PCs.

Chinese MIPS rival to Intel and AMD set to launch a 128-core server CPU to compete in the busy market — EPYC and Xeon fans need not worry for now but do keep an eye on the NVLink-like tech

By Wayne Williams published 6 July 24

Loongson's 3C6000 processor is set to be released Q4 in China, along with its NVLink-like Coherent Link technology.

New tech promises to add terabytes of memory (or SSD storage) to any GPU — but there's a big catch

By Wayne Williams published 6 July 24

Panmnesia has created a way of adding terabytes of memory (or SSD storage) to any GPU using CXL technology.

They did it again: Tech publisher keeps on breaking Pi Calculation World Record — they almost doubled the previous one, reaching 202 trillion digits in 100 days and used 1.5PB of SSD storage

By Wayne Williams published 6 July 24

Engineers took 100 days to calculate Pi to 202 trillion digits using some very powerful hardware.

'Transformers would take over the world': Little-known AI startup bet on ASICs — and claims it can trounce Nvidia's flagship GPU, the B200, by almost 10 times

By Wayne Williams published 5 July 24

AI startup Etched bet big on transformers and claims its Sohu chip is faster than Nvidia's B200 GPU.

A wire-bonded die consisting of over 20 gallium nitride high-electron mobility transistors, seen here under a microscope, could be used in nuclear sensing equipment because of its high resistance to radiation

Your iPhone 15 charger contains a material with quasi super-powers — gallium nitride can withstand deadly radiations and extremely high temperatures that would literally fry silicon chips

By Wayne Williams published 5 July 24

Gallium nitride (GaN) used in iPhone 15 chargers can withstand deadly radiations and extremely high temperatures.

This could well be the smallest uninterruptible power supply ever — someone merged a 5,000mAh battery with a plug and added rather useful charging protections to produce a nifty gadget that's very different from your standard powerbank

By Wayne Williams published 4 July 24

Japanese electronics firm Elecom has created a powerbank than combines a battery and a plug.

Could AMD be the key to Microsoft's fabulous $100 billion Stargate AI supercomputer? AMD EVP lets slip about plans for a million-plus GPU training cluster based on a future MI500 chip — but stays mum on customer

By Wayne Williams published 4 July 24

AMD has had conversations about a million-plus GPU training cluster that could be for Microsoft's Stargate AI supercomputer.

When light meet bytes: Intel debuts crucial optical tech that will boost AI performance — OCI chiplet can move up to 4Tbps and consume nearly 70% less power than rivals

By Wayne Williams published 3 July 24

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

'No one knows what makes humans so much more efficient': small language models based on Homo Sapiens could help explain how we learn and improve AI efficiency — for better or for worse

By Wayne Williams published 2 July 24

Tech companies are beginning to see the benefits of small language models based on humanlike learning.

Forget about Wi-Fi, your own private 5G network could be the answer to your connection woes — here's how to set one up for much cheaper than you think

By Wayne Williams published 1 July 24

Vodafone has teamed up with Lime Microsystems for a Raspberry Pi powered 5G solution available to buy now.

Huawei claims its AI chip is faster than Nvidia A100 — but Chinese powerhouse struggles to match transformational pace of rivals as international sanctions force change in design

By Wayne Williams published 1 July 24

Huawei had to get creative with the design of its Ascend 910B AI chip in order to compete with Nvidia A100.

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Huge Samsung SSD Pre-Prime Day deals at Amazon — 1TB 990 EVO from $80, 1TB T7 external SSD from $99

By Wayne Williams published 1 July 24

Internal and external Samsung SSDs are now being discounted on Amazon – don't miss out on these great deals.

Huawei succeeds where Microsoft failed miserably — HarmonyOS now on almost one billion devices, and China's largest mobile phone manufacturer has completely eliminated Android

By Wayne Williams published 1 July 24

Huawei’s mobile OS is on nearly a billion devices in China, and its new HarmonyOS Next removes all traces of Android.

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