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

"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 29 October 24

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

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 27 October 24

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 27 October 24

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

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 27 October 24

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 26 October 24

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 26 October 24

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

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 25 October 24

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

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 25 October 24

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

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 25 October 24

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

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 24 October 24

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

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 23 October 24

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

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 23 October 24

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

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 22 October 24

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

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 22 October 24

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 22 October 24

Thelio Astra looks to help boost development of autonomous vehicles.

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 21 October 24

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 21 October 24

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

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 20 October 24

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

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 20 October 24

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

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 20 October 24

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 20 October 24

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

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 19 October 24

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

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 19 October 24

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

'Hundreds' of AMD's fastest CPUs are on sale on eBay with a staggering 70% discount, but why would vendors in China dump these 128-core EPYC processors?

By Wayne Williams published 19 October 24

'Hundreds' of AMD's superfast EPYC 9754 processor being sold for a 70% discount by Chinese sellers on eBay

Crazy or wicked? Someone stuck half a touchscreen monitor on a mechanical keyboard and added a M.2 SSD slot, four USB ports, two speakers and one microSD card reader

By Wayne Williams published 19 October 24

Maxfree's K3 combines an 82-key mechanical keyboard with a 13-inch touchscreen display

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