Keumars Afifi-Sabet

Keumars Afifi-Sabet

Freelance Contributor

Keumars Afifi-Sabet is a freelance contributor for Tech Radar and Technology Editor for Live Science. He has written for a variety of publications including ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive. He has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years, having previously held the role of features editor with ITPro. In his previous role, he oversaw the commissioning and publishing of long form in areas including AI, cyber security, cloud computing and digital transformation.

An NCTJ-qualified journalist who specialises in technology, his path into journalism began at university. He immersed himself in student media while studying for a degree in biomedical sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. After graduating, Keumars wrote for a variety of local and national publications as a freelancer, including The Independent, The Observer, and Metro. While studying for his NCTJ certification, his work was commended in the category of ‘Top Scoop’ in the 2017 NCTJ awards. He’s also registered as a foundational chartered manager with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), having qualified as a Level 3 Team leader with distinction in 2023.

Articles by: Keumars Afifi-Sabet

Intel

Intel has a new rival to Nvidia's uber-popular H100 AI GPU — meet Gaudi3 with a whopping 128GB RAM

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The 5nm Gaudi3 has 1.5-times the bandwidth of the 96GB memory fitted into its 7nm predecessor.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU

"It's unstoppable": First reviews of AMD's fastest ever processor reveal a frightening prospect — there's no way Intel will win the peformance crown for a few years

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX trounces Intel's Xeon W9-3495X CPU in multi-threaded tests.

MSI S2302 server

No computer has ever supported this much system memory — MSI unveils Intel server that can take up to 18TB DDR5 (yes, that's terabyte)

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

MSI S2302 2U server is powered by two 4th-Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs.

The Aurora supercomputer

The GPT to rule them all: Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US government has just begun

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

LLM playfully dubbed 'ScienceGPT' is being trained from data from the Aurora supercomputer.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Next year's B100 graphics processor is likely to perform more than twice as well as the H200.

Dell’s Ultrasharp 27 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

This Dell monitor has more ports than three Apple MacBook Air laptops put together — it misses out on display perfection as it doesn't come with a webcam or offer 4K resolutions

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

New Dell LED monitor boasts 15 ports and slots - but is missing a few crucial features.

Lenovo Thinkstation P8

Lenovo just announced a ThreadRipper 7000 workstation with AMD's most powerful GPU ever — yes, the Nvidia RTX A6000 competitor that can handle 12K resolution

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

This workstation is pitched at professionals working on real-time graphical workloads and AI applications.

Micron's family of DDR5 RAM

Micron just announced a 128GB DDR5 module and a roadmap — but the bigger news is that you probably won't be able to buy DDR6 till at least 2029

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

This is a year later than we’d have previously expected DDR6 to be ready for distribution.

Nvdia H100 CNX

Can't purchase Nvidia's hottest and fastest GPU ever? Don't panic — Fujitsu has a plan to help you use your existing GPU stock more efficiently using a simple trick

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The CPU/GPU resource optimization technology cuts down program switches from seconds to just 100ms.

Philips 49B2U5900CH

One of the world's largest business monitors has an extraordinary feature that other manufacturers should embrace — a no-touch KVM switch that allows you to switch computers

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The 49-inch Philips 49B2U5900CH monitor features a Busylight indicator that can sync with Microsoft Teams.

Nvidia H100

"Predatory pre-annoucement" - The brain behind the largest CPU ever calls out Nvidia for spreading ‘FUD’ amidst surprise updated GPU roadmap announcement

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Nvidia is promising annual GPU releases until 2026, but not everyone thinks they can follow through on this.

The Diamond Foundry's ultrathin diamond wafer

Someone has used diamonds and a high-end Nvidia GPU to build perhaps the world's fastest graphics card ever — but you won't be able to buy it yet

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Diamond Foundry used heteroepitaxy to create single-crystal diamonds on scalable substrates.

Ampere 7StarLake TEC300S

This PC pairs an Nvidia GPU with a 128-core ARM CPU — yes, you can even use it next to a water sprinkler but no, I don't think you can run Starfield on it

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The Ampere 7StarLake TEC300S is IP-65 rated and can support up to 4TB RAM alongside a GPU.

Ventana Veyron V2

À la carte processing units could be the future of computing — and this 192-core RISC-V processor with built-in accelerators could be AMD and Intel's most formidable rival yet

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The 12-core Veyron 2 RISC-V CPU is 23% faster than the 128-core AMD EPYC Bergamo chip.

The IBM NorthPole chip

IBM used AMD's other not-so-secret weapon to deliver yet another brain-like chip — NorthPole is faster and uses less energy than Nvidia's best AI GPU and it's only the beginning

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

IBM’s NorthPole is 25-times more efficient than the best GPUs and the best CPUs out there.

The Oxide Cloud Computer

Intel quietly invested in a startup that uses AMD CPU to get rid of the "colostomy bag on the side of the switch" — Oxide has a plan that could make the world's biggest tech companies a bit anxious

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The cloud servers-for-purchase are powered by an AMD EPYC Milan CPU.

Lithium Bromide salt

"32% more performance": Here's how lithium salts could make your computer run faster, cooler — using a technique that every human being has mastered

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The passive thermal management system is ultra-low-cost and highly scalable, researchers say.

Amazon

Unlimited cloud storage provider used ancient technique to boost upload speeds — Son of Intel's Robson makes a timid return with SSD cache but on a much, much bigger scale

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

File uploads on B2 Cloud Storage are up to 30% faster than on AWS servers.

Meta's AMD CXL memory demo

AMD, Meta are working on revolutionary tech that could recycle petabytes worth of RAM

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

CXL could help save hyperscalers tens of millions of dollars while improving performance.

Sparkle TC-9321L

What do you get when you cross a laptop docking station and a power supply unit? A precursor of what future notebook chargers may look like...

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The Sparkle TC-9321L docking station includes a variety of ports and can supply power without an AC adapter.

Data center server room lit with green lights

Want to rent 1,000,000 Nvidia CUDA GPU cores? It'll cost you only 105 Euros per hour

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

You can also rent just one server for as little as $300 per day.

Servers

Yes, AMD has a secret weapon to fight off Nvidia AI armada — no, it has absolutely nothing to do with GPUs and everything to do with HBM

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The AI arms race is heating up with AMD leaning on innovations by Xilinx and SK Hynix.

Somebody holding a microSD card with their thumb and forefinger

'SSD Performance levels': New generation of microSD cards could help transfer an entire Blu-ray movie in less than 15 seconds, paving the way for mainstream 8K recording

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The SD Express Speed Class 600 standard can hit 600Mb/s.

samsung 870 QVO SSD

Is the BM9C1 Samsung's first 16TB high capacity, QLC SSD for PC or the new 880 QVO? Fleeting mention in press release sparks rumor about successor to 'cheapest' large-capacity SSD

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Samsung’s 8TB 870 QVO SSD is available for roughly $330 right now, but is the next edition on the way?

The IBM NorthPole chip

Inspired by the human brain — how IBM's latest AI chip could be 25 times more efficient than GPUs by being more integrated — but neither Nvidia nor AMD have to worry just yet

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The NorthPole processor does away with RAM to ramp up speed.

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