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

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

Yes! You can finally buy 26TB hard disk drives, two years after launch, but only in packs of 20 for $9100, and you will probably need a data center to run them

By Wayne Williams published 19 October 24

You can finally buy Western Digital’s 26TB hard disk drives, two years after launch

Intel's 128-core wonder processor is also its most expensive CPU right now, Xeon 6980P costs more than twice its AMD's 128-core rival, the EPYC 9754

By Wayne Williams published 18 October 24

Pricing for Intel's new Xeon 6900P processor family has been announced, and it's steep, making it the most expensive x86 CPU available today

'A revolutionary combination of performance and efficiency': Affordable, super fast SSDs as quick as Samsung's 990 Pro set to flood the market thanks to this groundbreaking SSD controller

By Wayne Williams published 18 October 24

Phison’s PS5031-E31T SSD controller will pave the way to affordable, super fast SSDs

A solution in search of a problem? Intel debuts AI app that runs locally on its most recent CPUs - but will it convince users of the benefits of end-user AI?

By Wayne Williams published 18 October 24

Intel's AI Playground app, which runs AI locally now works with Intel Core Ultra 200V processors

Price of world's largest SSD has nearly doubled since launch - could extreme demand for AI servers and training be behind shocking price tag of Solidigm's 61.44TB SSD?

By Wayne Williams published 17 October 24

The price of the world's largest SSD has skyrocketed likely due to demand for AI servers

Micro nuclear reactors are being built that can deliver 5MW of power for up to 100 months, producing a staggering 1.2 petawatt-hours of energy

By Wayne Williams published 16 October 24

Westinghouse's eVinci microreactor could power future data centers and even provide energy on the moon

Is this the end of WD as an SSD brand? SanDisk takes over SSD, memory cards and USB flash drives from Western Digital as company cements split

By Wayne Williams published 16 October 24

Western Digital and SanDisk are now operating as separate companies.

Crescendo vertical power delivery platform

New power delivery tech could save Google, Microsoft tens millions of dollars annually; Vertical PD up to 3KA could enable 10% reduction in losses

By Wayne Williams published 16 October 24

Empower Semiconductor’s new Crescendo vertical power delivery platform could save tech firms tens millions of dollars annually.

Want capacity AND speed? WD's 8TB SSD hailed as 'New King of High Capacity' by reviews but questions remain as to why there are only two such devices on the market

By Wayne Williams published 15 October 24

Western Digital's WD Black SN850X 8TB SSD hailed 'New King of High Capacity'

The block diagram of the Floquet-engineered dual-signaling wireless communication framework. At the transmitter end, the system generates both a modulated THz-range signal and a reference THz signal with a frequency matching that of the carrier signal. Meanwhile, the receiver is equipped with two 2DSQWs to detect both the modulated signal and the reference signal.

Researchers turn to quantum techniques to boost noise-resistant nanoscale wireless communication between chips — a breakthrough that could revolutionize future tech

By Wayne Williams published 15 October 24

The aim is create more efficient, scalable, and adaptable computing systems

Move aside H100, Huawei wants Chinese hyperscalers to use its new Ascend AI chip instead of Nvidia's workhorse, but it's going to be tough

By Wayne Williams published 14 October 24

Huawei is investing heavily in AI ecosystem development as it bids to become China's answer to Nvidia

TikTok's parent firm could shun Nvidia, AMD as reports claim it will use 100,000 Huawei AI chips to train its next-gen LLM

By Wayne Williams published 13 October 24

Reports claim TikTok parent company ByteDance will use 100,000 Huawei AI chips to train its next-gen LLM.

ONEXGPU 2 can supercharge laptops and mini PCs — AMD RX 7800M-powered eGPU delivers high performance, OCuLink and USB 4 connectivity, and support for up to three screens

By Wayne Williams published 13 October 24

ONEXGPU 2 is an AMD RX 7800M-powered eGPU with OCuLink and USB 4 connectivity.

Cloudflare unveils 12th-gen servers with AMD’s 96-core EPYC 9684X Genoa-X CPUs — promises up to 145% more RPS, 63% better efficiency, and enhanced AI capabilities

By Wayne Williams published 13 October 24

Cloudflare unveils 12th-gen servers with AMD’s 96-core EPYC 9684X Genoa-X CPUs

Nvidia will be thrilled – Samsung’s archrival announces it has begun production of HBM3E that will be used in Blackwell Ultra GPUs

By Wayne Williams published 12 October 24

SK Hynix has begun the mass production of its 12-layer HBM3E for AI use

Huawei rolls out its next-gen OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage — targeting AI mission-critical workloads

By Wayne Williams published 12 October 24

Huawei rolls out its next-gen OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage — targeting AI workloads.

AMD lands yet another major cloud deal as Oracle adopts thousands of Instinct MI300X GPUs to power new AI supercluster

By Wayne Williams published 12 October 24

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will add the AI accelerator to its selection of bare metal instances.

A virtual 128TB SSD running at 28GBps — HighPoint's new all-in-one storage card will be a perfect fit for your AI workstation but, at $26,000, it won't come cheap

By Wayne Williams published 11 October 24

Highpoint's new all-in-one 128TB storage card will be a perfect fit for your AI workstation but at $26,000 isn’t cheap

The grey arrows indicate the chronological order of the growth procedure. a, Ga bonding of the GaN substrate and MBE growth of the (In,Ga,Al)N LED along the metal-polar direction. b, Unloading, cleaning, flipping, Ga bonding and reloading of the sample. c, MBE growth of the GaN/AlGaN HEMT along the N-polar direction.

Only 'limited by your imagination': Gallium Nitride breakthrough could make LED displays more affordable and convert your smartphone screen into an antenna

By Wayne Williams published 10 October 24

Gallium Nitride breakthrough could make LED displays more affordable and convert your smartphone screen into an antenna

This has to be one of the weirdest PCIe cards ever sold — Japanese firm fuses antiquated parallel port with PCIe slot, and promises it is compatible with Windows XP

By Wayne Williams published 10 October 24

Japanese firm fuses antiquated parallel port with PCIe slot and promises that it is compatible with Windows XP.

The world's largest docking station is also an 8-drive NAS that can scale to 130TB plus has 20 ports and connectors; oh and it does have eight, yes eight power outlets

By Wayne Williams published 10 October 24

Aurora docking station includes 8-drive NAS and 20 ports and connectors

Could AI finally bring an end to Reddit's SEO dominance? Researchers correlate rise of ChatGPT with drop in knowledge sharing on public platforms

By Wayne Williams published 9 October 24

ChatGPT is having a negative impact on knowledge-sharing sites like Stack Overflow

Someone finally tested China's x86 CPU answer to AMD and Intel — the 8-core Zhaoxin KX-7000 processor is promising, but can't reasonably compete for now

By Wayne Williams published 9 October 24

Zhaoxin’s 8-core KX-7000 x86 CPU has been tested - China’s answer to AMD and Intel shows promise

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

By Wayne Williams published 9 October 24

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

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