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

What a surprise! HP positions Qualcomm as AMD's only rival in fiercely contested 40+ TOPS business laptop market

By Wayne Williams published 18 March 25

HP has launched a new EliteBook 6 AI laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor.

HP launches its first modular laptop: EliteBook 8 G1 is designed to be repaired and upgraded in minutes

By Wayne Williams published 18 March 25

HP's new EliteBook 8 G1 series laptops take a modular approach, so you can easily upgrade and replace important components.

HP follows Dell by simplifying almost its entire PC range across laptops and desktops, just in time for AI

By Wayne Williams published 18 March 25

HP has launched a collection of AI laptops, and come up with a new branding structure for them.

Western Digital introduces 26TB WD Red Pro HDDs for RAID and NAS systems at a surprisingly low price

By Wayne Williams published 17 March 25

Western Digital introduces a surprisingly affordable 26TB WD Red Pro HDDs for RAID and NAS systems.

Seagate reportedly sold two billion GBs worth of storage to two of the world's largest tech companies

By Wayne Williams published 16 March 25

Seagate recently sold one exabyte’s worth of HAMR HDDs to two of the world's largest tech companies.

Bluehost owner is moving to Oracle Cloud, so could thousands of websites be about to migrate?

By Wayne Williams published 16 March 25

Newfold Digital, parent company of Bluehost and HostGator, is moving over to Oracle Cloud.

Meta powers ahead with conscious chip uncoupling with Nvidia as it tests its first in-house training AI-PU

By Wayne Williams published 15 March 25

Reports say Meta’s in-house AI training CPU, produced by TSMC, is almost ready for deployment.

Somewhere in Japan is a dispenser where you can buy toy rack servers complete with cute Dell PowerEdge 2U servers

By Wayne Williams published 15 March 25

You can get toy rack servers, modeled after real products from Dell, Cisco, and A10 Networks, in Japanese vending machines

Details of Nvidia's fastest video card ever leak; RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU will have 96GB GDDR7 ECC memory

By Wayne Williams published 14 March 25

Details of Nvidia's fastest video card ever, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU, have been spotted online.

AI server designed for Chinese military use wins major global design award in Europe

By Wayne Williams published 13 March 25

An AI server for Chinese military forces has won a major global design award.

This GPU vendor I've never heard of claims its card is 10x faster than an Nvidia RTX 5090 at real time path tracing

By Wayne Williams published 12 March 25

Bolt Graphics claims its forthcoming Zeus GPU is the fastest graphics card ever.

T-Mobile rival is giving free ChatGPT Plus, worth hundreds, to its subscribers - but there's a catch

By Wayne Williams published 12 March 25

Orange France's new 5G+ plan includes a year's worth of free ChatGPT Plus, as well as Netflix.

Facebook engineers say bigger hard disk drives is making one critical metric far, far worse

By Wayne Williams published 11 March 25

Facebook engineers say that it's time for QLC flash to solve the problem of slower hard disk drives in data centers.

Glowing server racks inside a data center.

The dirty little secret about AI hardware that you should know about: server vendors have to wrestle with wafer thin margins and bigger customers

By Wayne Williams published 10 March 25

Thin margins make AI server sales a challenging business for the likes of Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.

Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

IBM’s Red Hat has teamed up with Axiom Space to send a data center to the International Space Station this spring.

Well, that's unexpected: Samsung will team up with its fiercest Chinese rival to produce next gen NAND flash

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

Samsung has signed an agreement with China’s YMTC to use its bonding technology in the production of 400-layer NAND flash memory.

Chinese researchers are looking to create a revolutionary type of hard drive based on organic materials but huge unknowns remain

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

Chinese researchers want to create revolutionary molecular hard drives, but we have questions.

A breakthrough in computing: Cortical Labs' CL1 is the first living biocomputer and costs almost the same as 'Apple's best failure'

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

Cortical Labs' CL1 is the world’s first commercialized biological computer with real neurons on a silicon chip.

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

The writing could be on the wall for HDDs as IBM debuts its FlashSystem C200 storage system.

Alibaba doubles down on RISC-V architecture with a new secretive 'server-grade' chip that will put AMD and Intel on alert

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

Alibaba’s research arm has launched its first server-grade RISC-V processor to take on Intel and AMD.

Scientists firmly in AI crosshairs as Google launches co-scientist scheme to accelerate scientific breakthroughs just days after another similar project

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

Google has launched an AI co-scientist scheme to accelerate scientific breakthrough using specialized agents.

Reliance Corporate Park (RCP), Navi Mumbai

'Who wants to be a billionaire?': Millions will get app to 'build high compute AI applications' and get them deployed across India's largest phone network

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

Digital arm of India’s Reliance Industries is building a hardware-less cloud-based personal PC.

This is Amazon's first foray in servers, and certainly not the last: MicroTik franken-router is powered by the AWS Graviton 1 Arm CPU

By Wayne Williams published 7 March 25

MicroTik's RDS2216 data server has 16 ports and is powered by Amazon's Graviton 1 Arm CPU used on AWS.

Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V

By Wayne Williams published 6 March 25

AheadComputing, formed by former Intel engineers, wants to take RISC-V to the next level and rival Arm.

'Simulating scientists': A new AI tool wants to make serendipitous scientific discovery less human

By Wayne Williams published 5 March 25

Scientists develop new AI model designed to aid scientific discovery.

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