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

Ahead of US Elections, energy deal will see Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp run on hot air — Meta signs contract with Sage Geosystems for its US data centers

By Wayne Williams published 29 August 24

Meta signs contract with Sage Geosystems to power its US data centers with geothermal energy.

Tech giants are looking to repurpose old power stations for data center demand

By Wayne Williams published 27 August 24

The likes of Microsoft, Amazon and Google are looking to repurpose old power stations to meet data center demand.

The HVAC "gold rush" — how the company behind your washing machine now wants to cool data centers

By Wayne Williams published 26 August 24

LG wants to expand its Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) business to cool data centers.

Talk about rock solid — tech giants unite to create global standard on... concrete?

By Wayne Williams published 25 August 24

Open Compute Project has partnered with tech giants to push the use of "green concrete" in data center construction.

Lenovo unveils cheaper Apple Mac Studio workstation alternative — Yoga Portal mini PC is a copy of the ThinkCenter Neo Ultra but has a much faster GPU

By Wayne Williams published 11 August 24

Lenovo's Yoga Portal mini PC is a copy of the Thinkcenter Neo Ultra for the Chinese market, with a much faster GPU.

Cheapest ever WiFi 7 router is an extraordinarily good deal — $99 TP-Link Archer router has five Gigabit Ethernet ports and even comes with a VPN server

By Wayne Williams published 10 August 24

TP-Link Archer BE3600 WiFi 7 router has five Gigabit Ethernet ports, comes with a VPN server, and only costs $99.

Micron's game-changing budget DRAMless SSD could spell the end of low performance SATA drives — independent reviews show it trounces Samsung's 990 EVO on popular benchmarks

By Wayne Williams published 10 August 24

Micron's DRAMless 2650 SSD performed well in benchmarking tests, trouncing Samsung's 990 EVO and others.

Fastest ever graphics memory launches but still lags HBM — SK Hynix GDDR7 RAM tops 1.5Tbps and could find its way in more affordable AI GPU cards

By Wayne Williams published 9 August 24

SK Hynix says its mass production of GDDR7 will begin in Q3 and the RAM could be used in affordable AI GPU cards.

Qualcomm quietly debuts Snapdragon X Elite Mini PC that's the perfect alternative to the Apple Mac Mini — and it's not as expensive as you'd think

By Wayne Williams published 8 August 24

Qualcomm quietly debuts Snapdragon X Elite Mini PC that's an affordable alternative to the Apple Mac Mini.

Breaking the 1000-core barrier: Ampere unveils roadmap for a 512-core CPU as battle for cloud-native market — but is it already too little too late for the lone Arm chip vendor?

By Wayne Williams published 7 August 24

Ampere unveils roadmap for a 512-core CPU, the AmpereOne Aurora for the cloud-native market.

Bill Gates is a big fan of multi monitors — boost your productivity with the cheapest triple monitor extender on the market right now with this exclusive deal

By Wayne Williams published 7 August 24

Boost your productivity with the cheapest monitor extender on the market right now with this exclusive deal.

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Researchers find that millions of HDMI cables could betray their owners by transmitting data to eavesdroppers — here is what you could do to avoid data leakage

By Wayne Williams published 6 August 24

Researchers have managed to eavesdrop on data leaking from HDMI cables by using AI.

This tiny USB flash drive is a ridiculously fast external SSD designed with Apple ProRes files in mind — but I'm definitely not sure about its design

By Wayne Williams published 5 August 24

Adata's SC750 flash drive has a built-in USB-C connector and supports Apple ProRes video recording.

Firm that kills hard disk drives with expensive SSDs invests in startup that wants to replace tape with ceramic slabs — Pure Storage invests in Cerabyte in a bid to become the Nvidia of Enterprise Storage

By Wayne Williams published 4 August 24

Pure Storage invests in Cerabyte's ceramic storage system to offer sustainable, immutable data solutions.

Like magic: new Wi-Fi solution can detect distressed seniors using wireless signals only — Gamgee's game-changing fall detection system could also be used for intruder detection and much more

By Wayne Williams published 3 August 24

Gamgee's Wi-Fi technology can identify seniors in trouble and home intruders without the need for wearables or cameras.

Game server hosting provider Shockbyte partners with one of the largest survival games in the industry

By Wayne Williams published 1 August 24

Shockbyte has entered into a partnership with Facepunch Studios to offer exclusive in-game content for Rust players.

Big and speedy: this 30.72TB behemoth is world's fastest enterprise SSD and obliterates Samsung's flagship 990 Pro champion

By Wayne Williams published 1 August 24

Micron 9550 data center SSD comes in up to 30.72TB capacity and obliterates Samsung's flagship 990 Pro.

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This is probably the most powerful mini PC you can get for under $800 — with cracking 14-core Intel Core i9 CPU, 32GB RAM, a 2TB SSD and Windows 11 Pro, the Mini IT13 is an exceptional workhorse

By Wayne Williams published 1 August 24

GEEKOM Mini IT13 is powered by a 14-core Intel Core i9 CPU, with 32GB RAM, and you can save $127 on it right now.

At almost 131 feet high, the world's tallest projector screen is so big that it needs seven ultra-bright laser projectors to make it work

By Wayne Williams published 31 July 24

At almost 131 feet high, the world's tallest projector screen is the centerpiece of an ocean theme exhibition in Germany.

This 16TB SSD NAS is so small it fits in your backpocket — and yet it packs a full-fledged Arm PC, has a battery, delivers personal cloud storage and can even transform into a wireless drive

By Wayne Williams published 30 July 24

UnifyDrive UT2 16TB SSD NAS is so small it fits in your back pocket, but packs a full-fledged Arm PC.

Samsung plans to mass produce 256GB RAM that supports key tech that will take AI to next level — CXL-enabled DRAM will expand computing and machine learning capabilities but at a premium

By Wayne Williams published 29 July 24

Samsung set to mass-produce 256GB CXL-enabled DRAM by the end of the year to boost AI.

What looks like a laptop but ain't a laptop? Chinese vendor releases innovative phone docking station that gets its inspiration from long lost Asus Transformer project

By Wayne Williams published 28 July 24

UPERFECT's UDock X 15.6 Pro Wireless Lapdock turns your smartphone into a laptop, and can wirelessly charge your device.

So cheap! You can now buy two liquid-cooled AI workstations with 192GB GDDR6 memory for the price of one Nvidia H100 GPU — hardware startup from AMD chip legend runs on RISC-V and promises to disrupt AI market

By Wayne Williams published 28 July 24

Tenstorrent is selling Intel Xeon powered TT-LoudBox and AMD EPYC powered TT-QuietBox AI workstations.

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"Maybe TSMC should buy Arm": Sleeping giant that makes tens of millions of chips for Intel, Nvidia, AMD reveals staggering profits and hints at a price hike to please shareholders

By Wayne Williams published 28 July 24

TSMC, the world's ninth most valuable company, enjoyed giant profits thanks to the AI boom.

OpenAI is talking to $700 billion chip giant you've never heard of to produce chip capable of rivaling Nvidia — Broadcom is bigger than Intel, AMD, Arm and Qualcomm together

By Wayne Williams published 27 July 24

OpenAI and Broadcom discuss plans to develop AI processor to rival those made by Nvidia.

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