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

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 12 September 24

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

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 11 September 24

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

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 10 September 24

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

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 9 September 24

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

'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 8 September 24

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

'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 6 September 24

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

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 5 September 24

Enfabrica showed off its ACF-S at Hot Chips 2024

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

By Wayne Williams published 5 September 24

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

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 3 September 24

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 2 September 24

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

'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 1 September 24

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 1 September 24

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

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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 31 August 24

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

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 30 August 24

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

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 29 August 24

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 27 August 24

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 26 August 24

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 25 August 24

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

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 11 August 24

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

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 10 August 24

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

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 9 August 24

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

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 8 August 24

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

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 7 August 24

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

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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 6 August 24

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

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 5 August 24

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

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