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

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in creating a battery made of carbon fiber composite that is as stiff as aluminum and energy-dense enough to be used commercially. When cars, planes, ships or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are radically reduced

'A mobile phone as thin as a credit card': How massless batteries, similar to the human skeleton, could give rise to the world's strongest power cell and change the future of our society forever

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have come up with a lightweight structural battery

OWC Envoy Ultra SSD

This is the fastest portable SSD right now — OWC launches a Thunderbolt 5 solid state drive that can exceed 6GB/s, 2x faster than the next quickest external SSD

By Wayne Williams published

OWC's Thunderbolt 5 Envoy Ultra is the fastest external SSD you can buy

Intel Xeon 6900P

First reviews of Intel’s fastest CPU ever shows that it has finally caught up with AMD – 128-core Xeon 6980P CPU won’t come cheap though

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First reviews of Intel’s fastest CPU ever shows that it has finally caught up with AMD

NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip

Nvidia's most powerful chip produced gets tested and yes, it is far more powerful than you'd ever imagine — but no, you can't play Crysis on it just yet, but it will run climate emulators seamlessly

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Researchers have been testing Nvidia's GH200 superchip on AI and climate change models

ZeroPoint chip

Hardware startup wants to solve the multi billion dollar problem of bandwidth by using an ancient technique — AI memory compression technique could save Google, Microsoft billions but Nvidia won't be happy

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ZeroPoint claims it can reduce server costs by up to a quarter using ultra-fast memory compression

Geekom Mini Air12 Lite

Makers rejoice! This mini PC has a rare expansion connector that no rival offers — 9-pin port is located on the front of Geekom device and could be useful for some great DIY projects

By Wayne Williams published

Geekom Mini Air12 Lite mini PC comes with a 9-pin expansion jack on the front

Design idea of the bionic wick - schematic diagram of the operating principle of a loop heat pipe

Researchers get inspiration from Mother Nature to design innovative chip cooler that could one day find its way in AI data centers

By Wayne Williams published

Bionic ceramic wick for Loop Heat Pipes (LHPs) was inspired by leaf stomata

reCAPTCHAv2 examples

This AI tool can solve Google's popular anti-spam defense every time — CAPTCHA system could soon become obsolete

By Wayne Williams published

AI tool can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 anti-bot system with 100% success

Radeon Instinct MI300X

AMD scores big win with thousands of Instinct MI300x shipped to one of world's largest privately held cloud computing platforms

By Wayne Williams published

Vultr has invested in "thousands" of AMD's Instinct MI300X AI accelerators for its cloud computing platform.

Pragmatic Flex-RV

Super bendy CPUs could pave the way for some extraordinary thinking-outside-the-box designs — Flex-RV is an open source, flexible and affordable processing unit coming to a pen near you

By Wayne Williams published

Pragmatic's Flex-RV is the world’s first flexible 32-bit microprocessor

Climate Crisis

Generative AI’s energy demands are “accelerating the climate crisis” – top researcher warns of environmental impact of Google's new Search feature

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Generative AI’s energy demands are “accelerating the climate crisis” top researcher warns

China Telecom

One of the world's largest mobile networks will train its trillion-parameter strong LLM on Huawei's AI chips as Nvidia, AMD are sidelined

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China Telecom has trained two new powerful LLMs on Huawei's Ascend AI chips

Data Center-as-a-Service pioneer ECL today announced that it will build the first fully sustainable 1GW AI Factory data center – ECL TerraSite-TX1 -- near Houston

ECL builds gigawatt hydrogen-powered data center to keep up with AI’s insatiable demand for power — and it's already planning an expansion

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

Samsung PM9E1 NVMe Gen 5 SSD

Just in time for Black Friday? Samsung may be preparing for launch of 990 Pro successor — PM9E1 SSD is its first PCIe 5.0 SSD but it isn't aimed at end users

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Samsung looks to be preparing to launch its first PCIe 5.0 SSD, PM9E1

AMD logo

Is AMD planning a face-off with Apple and Nvidia with its most powerful APU ever? Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is rumored to support 96GB of RAM and could run massive LLMs in memory without the need of a dedicated AI GPU

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is rumored to support 96GB of RAM and could run massive LLMs in memory

AWS Graviton4

AWS debuts new, home-grown, 192-cores Graviton4 CPUs that can support up to 3TB of RAM as it nibbles away Intel and AMD's memory advantage

By Wayne Williams published

New X8g instances come in ten virtual sizes and two bare-metal configurations.

nuclear site

Microsoft goes nuclear for its energy-hungry data centers as it bets on infamous Three Mile Island station power for its AI ambitions

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft will purchase energy produced by the restarted Three Mile Island nuclear plant

ByteDance

Wait, now Broadcom makes GPUs? Nvidia could face unexpected foe in China as ByteDance could use rival bigger than Intel, AMD, Arm and Qualcomm to design its AI chips

By Wayne Williams published

TikTok parent company ByteDance wants Broadcom and TSMC to design its AI chips.

TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus NAS

TerraMaster unveils mindblowing ultra compact SSD NAS that can take up to 8 drives — 64TB of NVMe storage is great, especially with a 10GbE LAN port

By Wayne Williams published

Terramaster unveils F8 SSD and F8 SSD Plus SSD NAS that can take up to 8 drives for 64TB of NVMe storage

5g glass antenna

Windows could become a critical part of 5G and 6G rollout thanks to Japanese invention — transparent glass surface works as an antenna

By Wayne Williams published

NTT DOCOMO and glassmaker AGC partner to produce a clever solution

Morse Micro HaLow

Groundbreaking wireless tech that can run on coin batteries for months hits new milestone — HaLow achieves 10-mile range in latest real-world test

By Wayne Williams published

Morse Micro tested Wi-Fi HaLow over a real world 10 mile distance

Micronuclear battery technology

Chinese scientists use americium to produce ultra-compact nuclear battery that could perhaps one day replace lithium batteries

By Wayne Williams published

Chinese researchers have unveiled micronuclear batteries that could one day power our tech

HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server

HPE's tiny, new 64-core AMD EYPC server can support three GPUs, six SSDs — but don't expect to play Black Myth: Wukong smoothly

By Wayne Williams published

HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 64-core AMD EYPC server can support three GPUs and six SSDs

MIT glass masonry

Would you live in a house of glass? Researchers have 3D-printed glass bricks that mimic the popular Lego interlocking system and can be recycled infinitely

By Wayne Williams published

MIT researchers have developed reusable 3D printed glass bricks that lock together like Lego

VyperCore chip

'From a toaster to a server': UK startup promises 5x 'speed up without changing a line of code' as it plans to take on Nvidia, AMD in the generative AI battlefield

By Wayne Williams published

Akurra from VyperCore is currently undergoing testing.

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