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

Flag of the People's Republic of China overlaid with a technological network of wires and circuits.

China has spent billions of dollars building far too many data centers for AI and compute - could it lead to a huge market crash?

By Wayne Williams published 6 April 25

China built hundreds of AI data centers, but supply now far exceeds demand, and DeepSeek is one of the reasons why.

This is the cheapest 5K monitor to launch in 2025 but that's not the reason why it is so special

By Wayne Williams published 6 April 25

Chinese manufacturer KTC has launched a dual-mode 5K monitor that's cheaper than you’d expect.

Japanese firm behind ubiquitous MSG is ramping up production of key material in semiconductor packaging

By Wayne Williams published 6 April 25

Ajinomoto, the Japanese firm behind MSG, is ramping up production of ABF, a key material used in semiconductor packaging.

Has x86 lost the data center battle? Arm claims victory as it declares close to 50 percent of compute shipped to top hyperscalers in 2025 will be Arm-based

By Wayne Williams published 5 April 25

Arm has x86 on the ropes as it declares close to 50 percent of compute shipped to top hyperscalers.

This dual screen laptop has something I've never seen in any notebook: a retractable hidden touchpad

By Wayne Williams published 5 April 25

Chinese manufacturer Topton’s dual-screen laptop has a fold out touchpad and a cover that transforms into a stand.

South Korea's hottest AI hardware startup reportedly said no to $800m acquisition by Meta

By Wayne Williams published 5 April 25

Report says Meta made an $800 million bid for South Korean startup FuriosaAI - but was turned down.

Fabless chip startup backed by multi-billion Indian company wants to build a $10bn fab in India before 2027

By Wayne Williams published 5 April 25

Fabless chip startup LTSCT, backed by multi-billion Indian company, wants to build a $10bn fab facility in India.

Intel could be key to Nvidia's future plans for megawatt-class rack servers as it pushes ahead with Superfluid cooling

By Wayne Williams published 4 April 25

Intel’s Superfluid cooling solution is capable of handling 1.5kW of heat and could be used on Nvidia's GB300 superchip.

JetKVM is an exciting, tiny open source KVM over IP module that sold almost 100,000 units and it even has a rare RJ11 port

By Wayne Williams published 3 April 25

JetKVM is a tiny, $69 open source KVM over IP device for remote control of any computer system.

Free Microsoft Windows rival gets first major update in four years but is it already too little, too late?

By Wayne Williams published 2 April 25

ReactOS, the free Windows-like OS built from scratch without Microsoft code, gets its first major update in four years.

Google Ads integration in Hostinger Website Builder

Hostinger has just added a super useful free feature for SMBs looking to get visitors and customers to their websites

By Wayne Williams published 2 April 25

Hostinger has announced a partnership with Google Ads to bake Performance Max campaigns directly into its Website Builder app.

Humans as hardware - no, not the name of a new Matrix movie prequel but a shocking idea about human tissue

By Wayne Williams published 1 April 25

Welcome to the Matrix: Japanese researcher wants to use human soft tissue to process data like a computer.

Microsoft skirts around rumors that it has cancelled several data center projects worth billions of dollars

By Wayne Williams published 31 March 25

A new report says that Microsoft has cancelled yet more data center projects worth billions of dollars.

This is the world's first Thunderbolt 5 LTO tape drive and I can't understand why it exists in the first place

By Wayne Williams published 30 March 25

MagStor has launched the world's first Thunderbolt 5 LTO tape drive, but it won’t be cheap.

This purple, liquid-cooled NVMe SSD from Solidigm looks like a limited-edition Lego data center set

By Wayne Williams published 30 March 25

Solidigm demoes a purple liquid cooled mini rack of NVMe SSDs at Nvidia GTC 2025.

After Pure Storage, CIA-backed VC invests in ceramic-based startup that wants to build Exabyte-class storage

By Wayne Williams published 30 March 25

CIA-backed In-Q-Tel invests in ceramic-based storage startup Cerabyte to advance ultra-durable archival solutions for government files.

Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered

By Wayne Williams published 30 March 25

Chinese startup DapuStor has quietly debuted a 122.88TB version of its super-fast J5060 QLC SSD.

DapuStor Roealsen6 R6101 7.68TB Enterprise SSD

'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap

By Wayne Williams published 29 March 25

Chinese startup DapuStor's Roealsen6 R6101 7.68TB Enterprise SSD got reviewed and was described as 'an engineering masterpiece'.

Megawatt-class AI server racks may well become the norm before 2030 as Nvidia displays 600kW Kyber rack design

By Wayne Williams published 29 March 25

Nvidia's 600kW Kyber racks, shown off at GTC 2025, hint at megawatt AI servers before 2030.

Analyst claims Softbank bought Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion to help OpenAI's chip ambitions

By Wayne Williams published 29 March 25

Did SoftBank spend $6.5 billion on Ampere to power OpenAI’s massive Stargate project?

And so it begins - Amazon Web Services is aggressively courting its own customers to use its Trainium tech rather than Nvidia's GPUs

By Wayne Williams published 29 March 25

AWS has reportedly offered customers a 25% saving to move from Nvidia hardware to its own Trainium chips.

The 'AI economy is currently a closed loop' - and that's probably why OpenAI, not Microsoft, invested a whopping $12bn in CoreWeave

By Wayne Williams published 28 March 25

Microsoft pulled out of a $12bn deal with CoreWeave, and OpenAI took its place.

Asus's more affordable version of Nvidia's uber-popular Project Digits snapped at GTC 2025

By Wayne Williams published 27 March 25

Ascent GX10 is Asus' version of Nvidia's DGX Spark, a compact AI supercomputer powered by Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip.

Is CoreWeave another WeWork? Blogger who caused Nvidia market capitalization to drop by $600 billion in a day thinks so

By Wayne Williams published 26 March 25

The blogger whose insights into Nvidia led to it losing $600B market capitalization in a single day says CoreWeave is the “WeWork of AI”.

Seagate teams with Nvidia to build an NVMe hard drive proof of concept, more than 3 years after its last effort

By Wayne Williams published 25 March 25

Seagate has revealed a new NVMe HDD proof of concept, more than three years after the last one.

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