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

Geekom GT1 Mega Mini PC

Mini PCs like this shows why your traditional desktop PC is going the way of the Dodo — Geekom's latest powerhouse has eight USB ports, can drive four 4K monitors and has two 2.5GbE LAN ports

By Wayne Williams published

Geekom's GT1 Mega mini PC has eight USB ports and can drive four 4K monitors

Samsung QLC 9th Generation V-NAND

Samsung zeroes on AI storage domination as it starts mass production of 1Tb QLC NAND chips targeting enterprise servers — but don't worry, it will come to consumer SSDs, maybe one day

By Wayne Williams published

Samsung starts mass production of 1Tb QLC NAND chips that target enterprise servers

Haiku logo

Scion of obscure OS that could have replaced Mac OS gets a rare update, almost 22 years after it started — Haiku carries on the minimalist philosophy of BeOS, the pet project of one of Apple's former executives

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Community-drive BeOS spin-off project Haiku has just received another beta update

Deep X chip

The Raspberry Pi of AI: Korean startup wants to bring ultra-cheap, high performance NPUs to billions of devices using its own secret quantization sauce, with $1/TOPS target on the horizon

By Wayne Williams published

DeepX is partnering with LG to get its NPUs into mobile devices, cars, and white goods

MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo A2VM

I want one! MSI quietly debuts sub-1kg laptop with a killer price tag and exceptional performance — prestige 13 AI+ will appeal to businesses and no, don't get put off by its lack of RAM upgradability

By Wayne Williams published

MSI's Prestige 13 AI+ Evo laptop offers exceptional performance at a killer price.

Glowing server racks inside a data center.

“Building the AI infrastructure of the future” — Microsoft partners with BlackRock for $30BN+ fund to develop and power data centers

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Microsoft partners with BlackRock for $30BN fund to develop and power AI data centers.

Aoostar GEM10 370 mini PC

24TB storage in a super fast mini PC — HX 370 powered challenger can run three SSDs, has an OCuLink connector and its APU is as powerful as an RTX 3050

By Wayne Williams published

New Aoostar GEM10 370 mini PC is powered by Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor

iodyne Pro Mini

Obscure SSD vendor is using revolutionary cooling system in order to deliver best-in-class performance — iodyne's portable SSD packs AirJet, iPhone connectivity and unique RAID-6 capabilities in a tiny footprint

By Wayne Williams published

Iodyne’s Pro Mini SSD comes in 4TB and 8TB capacities and is cooled by Frore AirJet technology

Beelink SER9

This is the world's most powerful Mini PC and I can't wait to test it: Beelink's tiny computer packs the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU and promises to deliver the GPU performance of an RTX 3050 with a whopping 50 TOPS

By Wayne Williams published

Beelink's SER9 mini PC will be powered by AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Elephant laser printer

HP beware! World's largest PC company launches intriguing mono laser printer but doesn't want to sell it outside China yet — Lenovo's Elephant is compact, has cheap consumables and is super affordable

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo has launched a new monochrome laser printer, but the Xiaoxin Elephant is only available in China for now

IBM Summit

$200 million supercomputer will be scrapped within weeks — ORNL's Summit could be a bargain for someone with very deep pockets, lofty ambitions (and some serious real estate to park it all)

By Wayne Williams published

ORNL's Summit supercomputer is going to be scrapped in weeks

Toshiba Mx11 family of hard disk drives

Toshiba unveils 28TB hard disk drive to compete with Western Digital and Seagate — but is it too little too late for the Japanese outfit?

By Wayne Williams published

Toshiba unveils 28TB hard disk drive to compete with Western Digital and Seagate.

Elon Musk

xAI cluster is now the most powerful AI training system in the world — but questions remain over storage capacity, power usage and why it's actually called Colossus

By Wayne Williams published

Elon Musk says xAI's Colossus AI training system, built in just 122 days, is now online.

Computer chip with US and China flag

Report claims renting slower Nvidia AI GPUs is cheaper in China than in the US — but that's thanks to some rather surprising underhand strategies

By Wayne Williams published

Report claims that renting slower Nvidia AI GPUs is cheaper in China than in the US

Robot dismantling a hard disk drive

Microsoft is using AI-powered robots to help dismantle and destroy hard drives used in its data centers

By Wayne Williams published

Tech giant wants to stop rare materials being wasted

Photo-chargeable supercapacitor

Researchers design tech that could 'potentially replace solar cells' in certain applications — novel supercapacitor is charged by light and could appear in a smartphone near you

By Wayne Williams published

Researchers design supercapacitor that could 'potentially replace solar cells' in certain applications

Revodok Thunderbolt 5 docking station

Thunderbolt 5 docking stations went mainstream at IFA but where are the laptops that support them? Promises of 80 Gbps of bandwidth and 8K resolutions are not enough to convince notebook makers

By Wayne Williams published

At IFA 2024, UGREEN unveiled its new Revodok Thunderbolt 5 docking station

Morefine M11

What do you get when you cross a tablet with a mini PC? Morefine M11 merges a 7-inch display with a battery and a PC, complete with Ethernet port — and seven, yes seven connectors

By Wayne Williams published

Morefine M11 is a mini PC with an integrated 7 inch screen and built-in battery

Adele LED video wall

This is what the largest LED video wall in the world looks like — Adele's extravagant 44,000sq ft display goes straight into the Guinness World Records book

By Wayne Williams published

Adele earns another Guinness World Record with 44,000sq ft LED display.

An experimental chip represented in this illustration spreads ultrafast terahertz beams in all directions around it

Forget about 5G: Universities worldwide compete to become dominant force in 6G with Terahertz chips and rival technologies

By Wayne Williams published

Researchers from competing universities are looking to accelerate 6G development

DNA

1000 laptops on your pinkie — DNA storage and compute breakthrough could one day help store petabytes of data, but we're not there yet

By Wayne Williams published

Researchers have come up with a new DNA-based storage system.

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

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