Articles by 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

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 29 October 23

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 29 October 23

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

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 28 October 23

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

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 28 October 23

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

Samsung's new HBM3E memory technology hits 1.2TB/s — you can bet that it will power Nvidia's next AI monster GPU, the GH200

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 27 October 23

Samsung's new memory module is more than 50% faster than its predecessor.

Intel has a sneaky plan to sell 100 million Core Ultra PCs by 2025 – and yes, this new scheme has everything to do with AI

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 27 October 23

Intel Core Ultra chips will now be complemented by an AI accelerator program.

Samsung's Jung-Bae Lee speaking at Memory Tech Day 2023

Could Samsung launch the world's first Petabyte SSD within weeks? Korean press hints at seismic event that could get hard drive vendors worried

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 26 October 23

Samsung expected to release PBSSDs within ten years, but it could be dramatically slashing that timescale.

AMD quietly annihilated Intel in a hotly contested world record — with 192 water-cooled EPYC cores hidden behind a cardboard protector

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 26 October 23

Intel’s brief status as a world-record holder in the Cinebench R23 benchmark is over, thanks to AMD’s EPYC 9654 processor.

Huawei debuts first 5.5G router ever – it's tiny and available from next year, but chances are that you'll never be able to buy it

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 25 October 23

Huawei LampSite X weighs just 1kg, but can offer speeds of up to 10Gbps by combining mmWave 5G with sub-6GHz wavelengths

AMD adds support for super-popular open source AI tool to its most powerful GPU – now imagine what would happen if an AMD APU could run Stable Diffusion out of the box

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 24 October 23

AMD is taking the fight to Nvidia's with open source.

A CPU being manufactured by robotics on a workbench

Build-your-own-chip startup wants everyone to design and fab their own processor via a simple UI – but Nvidia, Intel et al needn’t worry for now

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 23 October 23

Zero ASIC is hoping to democratize chip design by removing key step that costs $100 million.

Japanese company promises to slash prices of AI computing in race to deliver the world’s cheapest GPU cloud

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 21 October 23

Third Wave wants to undercut the competition from hyperscalers with its Raytrek Cloud service.

Facebook is trialing robots that can autonomously move massive computer racks — let’s just hope they don’t forget to unplug before they move

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 20 October 23

Automating the movement of IT equipment can lead to efficiency gains and free up staff to do something better with their time.

Another 3D monitor that you can use without glasses just launched — and that’s excellent news for VR fans out there

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 20 October 23

The SpatialLabs View Pro 27 boasts a stereoscopic 3D display with HDR support and an ergonomic design.

Don’t mistake that 1TB SSD for a snack — smallest ever solid state drive that's barely bigger than a thumbnail debuts in Japan

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 19 October 23

Buffalo’s 1TB SSD measures just 14.6 x 28 x 8mm and weighs under 5g.

The scroll that's been unfurled using machine learning

AI has helped read a 2000-year-old scroll consumed by volcanic ash — and this could help rewrite what we know of antiquity

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 19 October 23

The scroll, from the ancient Roman city Herculaneum, contained Greek letters on several lines of the papyrus.

Even a laptop can run RAM externally thanks to a little-known tech called CXL — but it’s not for sale to mere mortals who only want 1TB of RAM

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 18 October 23

FADU’s CXL 2.0 switch concept augments next-generation data centers with more RAM for AI use cases.

The lightest AMD laptop ever just launched in Japan — and it seems to defy the laws of physics with a 24-hour battery life

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 17 October 23

The Dynabook GA83/XW weighs approximately 875g and starts from roughly $2,600.

Like Apple did with Intel, Qualcomm is now one step closer to an Arm-free ecosystem — thanks to its Google RISC-V alliance

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 17 October 23

Qualcomm and Google are building a Snapdragon Wearable platform to give manufacturers an alternative to ARM-based CPUs.

French company claims to have produced world’s smallest fanless PC based on Intel’s N100 — and it’s surprisingly cheap even in red

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 17 October 23

You can back the next-gen Bleu Jour mini PC for less than $250.

Remember T1000 from Terminator 2? Scientists are planning something similar but with a cuter name – SMARTLET

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 16 October 23

Microelectronics that can self-assemble into ‘living technology’? What could possibly go wrong?

World’s biggest PC vendor takes first step that could establish Android as Windows biggest rival ever — and eliminate Google ChromeOS at the same time

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Last updated 16 October 23

Updated Lenovo will soon begin to distribute devices powered by the Esper Foundation OS.

One step closer to the Matrix: AI defeats human champion in Street Fighter — with a revolutionary type of memory it uses to make itself even more powerful

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 15 October 23

The AI system, powered by phase-change memory and reinforcement learning, was trained for just two days.

The hull of a small boat built out of a supercapacitor

What if the humble house brick could store power? Researchers reveal new material and shed light on exciting world of structural capacitors

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 15 October 23

The best laptops and smartphones of tomorrow could be much lighter and store more energy.

To beat Nvidia, AMD bets on open source acquisition and a strategy reminiscent of Linux vs Microsoft era

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published 14 October 23

AMD’s hopes to boost its AI-boosting software portfolio with the purchase of the $36.5m-rated Nod.ai.

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