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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

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.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd

"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.

Windows 3.1 running on a 2021 iPad Pro in keyboard mode

Southwest Airlines avoided CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage because it’s still running Windows 3.1 — fourth-largest US airline remained free of BSoD errors because its OS hasn't been updated in decades

By Wayne Williams published 27 July 24

Southwest Airlines avoided CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage due to running Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

Intel and AMD won't like that: Detailed benchmarking of Amazon Graviton4 shows fantastic performance/price — this is the biggest server CPU threat yet to x86 duopoly and it won't go away

By Wayne Williams published 27 July 24

Comprehensive benchmarking of AWS Graviton4 shows Arm processor is a threat to Intel and AMD.

Fujitsu is planning the most powerful CPU ever for its supercomputer — launching in 2027, 288-core Monaka abandons HBM, will use PCIe 6.0 and 2nm process but will it be enough to fend off x86?

By Wayne Williams published 26 July 24

Fujitsu's Monaka could be the most powerful CPU ever when it launches in 2027.

Parallels is giving Citrix users free licenses worth thousands of dollars in a bid to migrate them to Parallel RAS — Canadian developer highlights lesser complexity, single licensing model and lower costs

By Wayne Williams published 25 July 24

Parallels is giving Citrix users free licenses worth thousands of dollars in a bid to migrate them to Parallel RAS.

Western Digital teams with storage startup to deliver Apple-inspired, Mac-proof storage solution that can scale to 560TB — Orico Data Matrix Ultra set to compete with ThunderBay Flex 8

By Wayne Williams published 24 July 24

Data Matrix Ultra is an Apple inspired storage solution that combines SSDs with Western Digital HDDs.

This 4K monitor can run Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 without a PC — LG's gorgeous rival to Samsung's M7 Smart Monitor debuts but fails to match it pricewise or sizewise

By Wayne Williams published 23 July 24

LG's new 4K smart monitor can run Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 without a PC - but is dearer than Samsung's rival.

Temu, Shein and Aliexpress are attracting US customers in their millions, poll shows — and that's despite the fact the vast majority do not trust these online Chinese retailers in the first place

By Wayne Williams published 22 July 24

Chinese retailers Temu, Shein and Aliexpress are attracting US customers in their millions, despite widespread distrust.

Micron's data center MRDIMMs double the bandwidth of existing DDR5 DIMMs — promise enhanced AI and HPC performance with Xeon 6 Granite Rapid CPUs

By Wayne Williams published 21 July 24

Micron's data center MRDIMMs double the bandwidth of existing DDR5 DIMMs, boosting AI performance.

Exclusive: Sony confirms it is killing its formidable 5.5TB cartridge storage solution — clearing the way for emerging ceramic, silica and DNA storage rivals to take its place

By Wayne Williams published 21 July 24

Sony is ceasing production of its recordable disc solutions, including the 5.5TB Optical Disc Archive Cartridge.

AMD confirms Zen 6 and Zen 6c will arrive in 2025 — but Intel is set to grab the fastest CPU server spot for the first time in a decade within weeks

By Wayne Williams published 21 July 24

AMD's Zen 6 processors will arrive in 2025, but Intel will take the CPU server market lead for the first time in a decade with Granite Rapids.

Japanese owner of Arm gets a bargain with Graphcore purchase — could British startup stymied by lack of support embrace Arm's licensing strategy to break Nvidia's stranglehold on AI?

By Wayne Williams published 21 July 24

SoftBank, the Japanese owner of Arm, has snapped up troubled British AI chip designer Graphcore.

A sign of Tencent Holdings Ltd is seen during the 2021 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China

Tencent unveils a stunning upgrade to its computing power in a bid to topple Nvidia — Xingmai 2.0 network supports over 100,000 GPUs in a single computing cluster

By Wayne Williams published 20 July 24

Tencent has upgraded Xingmai 2.0, HPC network now supports over 100,000 GPUs in a single computing cluster.

Asia's biggest chipmaker is set to join the trillion-dollar club — TSMC will topple Meta soon as it benefits from AI boom

By Wayne Williams published 20 July 24

TSMC is the world's eighth most valuable company thanks to the AI boom.

Talk about a downgrade — iconic British private school that has educated world leaders and royalty is forcing pupils to use ancient Nokia phones

By Wayne Williams published 20 July 24

Iconic British private school Eton to force pupils to use ancient Nokia phones in a bid to improve classroom behavior.

A recipe for disaster? New mini PC with Linux-compatible open GPU slot design looks great on paper but could be a costly mistake for owners of adventurous cats

By Wayne Williams published 19 July 24

Beelink's GTi14 mini PC is powered by up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor and supports external GPUs.

A mega triple-layer 16K screen and 150 RTX A6000 GPUs — Nvidia reveals even more details about the staggering technology powering the Las Vegas Sphere

By Wayne Williams published 18 July 24

Nvidia has revealed how its technology, including 150 RTX A6000 GPUs, is powering the Las Vegas Sphere.

Here's a list of all the apps that can run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite — shame AutoCAD and our favorite VPN provider is missing

By Wayne Williams last updated 18 July 24

Updated: These are the apps able to run natively on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor in Copilot+PCs.

This is what a monstrous motherboard with 48 DDR5 memory slots looks like — it can support a staggering 24TB RAM using Samsung's 512GB DDR5 memory modules

By Wayne Williams published 17 July 24

Gigabyte R283-ZK0 motherboard fits a standard 2U width but can support a staggering 24TB RAM.

AMD splashed nearly $700 million on a small Finnish AI startup that built its own AI operating system — could Nvidia archrival be looking at building a much taller stack, similar to what Apple did in hardware and services

By Wayne Williams published 17 July 24

AMD just bought Silo AI, Europe's largest private artificial intelligence lab, in a cash deal worth $665 million.

Looking for a wireless drive? This fantastic little VPN router allows you to access a portable hard drive, an external SSD, a USB Flash Drive or a microSD card without wires

By Wayne Williams published 16 July 24

GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 (Slate AX) is a pocket-sized Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router with built-in NAS functionality.

Battery-powered robot crabs, 4TB glass discs and Hololens tech: A deep dive into Project Silica reveals how Microsoft doesn't want petabyte capacity quartz disks just yet

By Wayne Williams published 16 July 24

Project Silica labs offer a look at where Microsoft is developing quartz glass storage.

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