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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

This NAS drive takes up to 12 SSDs and looks like a PS4 gaming console; but Asustor Flashstor Gen 2 is not cheap, and a dozen 8TB SSDs will cost more than $8,000

By Wayne Williams published 11 December 24

Asustor Flashstor Gen 2 NAS drive takes up to 12 SSDs and looks like a PS4 gaming console.

Analog AI chip startup wants to achieve 1 POPS per Watt: 1000 TOPS/W is 'within reach' says firm co-founder as he looks to analog-first Gigabit-sized SLMs

By Wayne Williams published 10 December 24

Analog AI chip startup Blumind wants to achieve 1 POPS per Watt.

This French DNA data startup wants to store all of humanity's data in something as small as a data center rack

By Wayne Williams published 9 December 24

French DNA data startup gets $15 million investment to make Zettabyte storage a reality next decade.

Rio-Tech DCI-certified HeyLED LA2K-10 cinema screen

Coming to a theater near you: How cinema screens may soon become gigantic LED displays thanks to a plethora of Chinese companies looking for new markets

By Wayne Williams published 8 December 24

Cinema screens may soon become gigantic LED displays thanks to a plethora of Chinese companies.

Seagate adds affordable enterprise grade tier to its Lyve cloud storage; infrequent access tranche costs a mere $45/TB/year

By Wayne Williams published 8 December 24

Seagate adds affordable infrequent access tier to its Lyve cloud storage.

Nvidia almost produced an x86 CPU to rival AMD and Intel, but was forced to move to Arm due to 'certain legal issues'

By Wayne Williams published 7 December 24

Nvidia almost produced an x86 CPU to rival Intel, but was forced to move to Arm due to 'legal issues'.

Future exascale supercomputers will be built using these HPE Lego-like cabinets able to hold nearly 100,000 AMD EPYC Cores

By Wayne Williams published 7 December 24

Future Exascale supercomputers will be built using these HPE cabinets that can hold nearly 100,000 AMD Epyc Cores.

Raspberry Pi's $7 Pico 2 W adds wireless connectivity for IoT projects

By Wayne Williams published 6 December 24

Raspberry Pi's $7 Pico 2 W adds wireless connectivity for IoT projects.

“Not only ultra light but also ultra secure”: Dynabook launches new sub-1kg 13-inch 2-in-1 laptop

By Wayne Williams published 6 December 24

Dynabook launches sub-1kg 13-inch Portégé X30W-M 2-in-1 laptop.

A hardware security module designed for the cloud: Microsoft's Azure Integrated HSM aims to significantly reduce network access latencies without compromising security

By Wayne Williams published 5 December 24

Microsoft's Azure Integrated HSM aims to significantly reduce network access latencies without compromising security.

This tablet has a genius feature I want every vendor to copy: a second USB-C port that allows you to display content on an external screen

By Wayne Williams published 4 December 24

This tablet has a second USB-C port that allows you to display content on an external screen

"Something the world has never seen before" – revolutionary cryo-CMOS transistor thrives in freezing conditions; could be used for scaling quantum computing and in space tech

By Wayne Williams published 4 December 24

Cryo-CMOS transistor thrives in freezing conditions and could be used in quantum computing and space tech.

In-memory processing using Python promises faster and more efficient computing by skipping the CPU

By Wayne Williams published 3 December 24

Researchers develop Python in-memory processing for faster, more efficient computing.

"AI requires cold data to be warmer" — energy-efficient Tape-as-a-Service (TaaS) combines the benefits of traditional 18TB LTO-9 storage with the convenience and flexibility of cloud services

By Wayne Williams published 3 December 24

Cloud-based Tape-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution hits general availability.

Nvidia's closest rival once again obliterates cloud giants in AI performance; Cerebras Inference is 75x faster than AWS, 32x faster than Google on Llama 3.1 405B

By Wayne Williams published 2 December 24

Cerebras Inference leads in AI performance; 75x faster than AWS, 32x faster than Google on Llama 3.1 405B.

A hand reaching out to touch a futuristic rendering of an AI processor.

OpenAI spent $80M to $100M training GPT-4; Chinese firm claims it trained its rival AI model for $3 million using just 2,000 GPUs

By Wayne Williams published 2 December 24

Chinese firm claims it trained rival GPT-4 model for $3 million using just 2,000 GPUs.

World's largest PCIe Gen5 SSD gets tested and reaches almost 13GBps in sequential read; 60TB Micron 6550 Ion is super fast as it swaps QLC for TLC

By Wayne Williams published 1 December 24

Micron 6550 Ion, the world's largest PCIe Gen5 SSD, impresses in first review.

Famous GoT actor lifts more than $20 million worth of 122.88TB SSDs for charity; 'The Mountain' carried 2,316 drives, totaling almost 283PB

By Wayne Williams published 30 November 24

“The Mountain" from Game of Thrones lifted a record-setting 282.624PB of data on Phison Pascari D205V drives.

Microsoft dips toes into DPU with Azure Boost: Data Processing Unit market gets further validation as Microsoft seeks to disaggregate the data center

By Wayne Williams published 29 November 24

Microsoft announces Azure Boost DPU, its first in-house data processing unit for cloud workloads.

Elon Musk raises $6 billion for xAI’s Memphis data center; will purchase 100,000 Nvidia chips to boost Tesla’s full self-driving capabilities

By Wayne Williams published 28 November 24

Elon Musk raises $6 billion to buy 100,000 Nvidia chips for xAI’s Memphis data center

This is the largest USB Flash Drive you can buy right now: 4TB USB 3.2 Gen2 thumb disk from Oyen Digital uses 3D TLC NAND — and can reach speeds of up to 1050MBps

By Wayne Williams published 27 November 24

4TB USB 3.2 Gen2 thumb disk from Oyen Digital uses 3D TLC NAND and can reach speeds of up to 1050MBps

Another Apple Mac Studio mini PC clone emerges with a Core i9 and a Geforce RTX 4090 GPU — but you won't be able to buy it just yet

By Wayne Williams published 26 November 24

This mini PC looks like an Apple Mac Studio — but supports Core i9 CPU and a Geforce RTX 4090 GPU.

AMD's fastest CPU gets surprising 33% price cut in time for Black Friday and just one month after it launched; is there something else happening?

By Wayne Williams published 25 November 24

AMD’s 192-core 5th generation Turin EPYC 9965, arrived last month and is suddenly selling for 33% cheaper

Necessity is the mother of invention: Huawei is pairing its supercharged SSD with a 60-year old piece of technology — seemingly because of US export restrictions

By Wayne Williams published 24 November 24

Huawei is pairing its supercharged SSD with tape storage in response to US export restrictions.

Here's a great idea! MSI is giving away Microsoft 365 office suite with some of its laptops in Japan — so when will that be extended globally?

By Wayne Williams published 24 November 24

MSI has launched two new business laptops with Microsoft Office Home & Business 2024 and Microsoft 365 Basic included.

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