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

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.

HP and Dell's latest Nvidia powered PCs are likely to be some of the most expensive workstations ever launched

By Wayne Williams published 24 March 25

HP and Dell have revealed details of their Nvidia DGX Station competitors powered by the GB300 Superchip.

How to make hard drives faster? Simple, just bunch dozens of them together, Toshiba says

By Wayne Williams published 23 March 25

Toshiba's new Lab says the best way to make hard drives faster is to combine them.

Asus debuts its own mini AI supercomputer: Ascent GX10 costs $2999 and comes with Nvidia's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip

By Wayne Williams published 23 March 25

Asus unveils Ascent GX10, a compact AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip.

World's biggest RAM vendors develop superior memory form factor exclusively for Nvidia, sorry Intel and AMD

By Wayne Williams published 23 March 25

Micron and SK Hynix have developed a new memory module, called SOCAMM, for Nvidia’s AI platforms.

'2-inches gets you 30% more screen': HP is pitching 18-inch laptop as the best new thing in tech

By Wayne Williams published 22 March 25

HP releases world's most powerful 18-inch mobile workstation, the Intel-powered ZBook Fury G1i.

Framework's Desktop is selling like hot cakes; Ryzen Max+ 395, Max 383 batches are sold out with next shipment in Q3

By Wayne Williams published 22 March 25

Framework Desktop is a customizable mini PC with AI capabilities - and it's sold out seven times in under two months.

Project Digits is now DGX Spark: Nvidia raises its price by 33% as HPE, Dell jump on Petaflop mini AI bandwagon

By Wayne Williams published 22 March 25

Nvidia has rebranded its tiny Project Digits AI supercomputer as DGX Spark, while Asus, Dell, and HPE are readying their own versions.

Softbank set to buy Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion and could integrate it with Arm and Graphcore

By Wayne Williams published 22 March 25

Arm's Japanese owner is buying Ampere, Arm's only independent server chip vendor, for $6.5 billion.

AMD signs huge multi-billion dollar deal with Oracle to build a cluster of 30,000 MI355X AI accelerators

By Wayne Williams published 21 March 25

Oracle has announced it is buying 30,000 AMD Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.

After 7 years, Exadrive's 100TB 2.5-inch SSD is finally superseded by a far superior 122.88TB model from Kioxia

By Wayne Williams published 20 March 25

Kioxia has unveiled a massive 122.88TB 2.5-inch SSD with PCIe Gen5 interface, targeting AI applications.

Data center server room lit with green lights

Microsoft is MIA as Amazon, Meta, Google and others join consortium to triple nuclear energy output by 2050

By Wayne Williams published 19 March 25

Amazon, Meta and Google sign a pledge to triple nuclear energy output by 2050, but where are Microsoft and Oracle?

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