Wayne Williams

Wayne Williams

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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

RISC-V

Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V

By Wayne Williams published

AheadComputing, formed by former Intel engineers, wants to take RISC-V to the next level and rival Arm.

An AI face in profile against a digital background.

'Simulating scientists': A new AI tool wants to make serendipitous scientific discovery less human

By Wayne Williams published

Scientists develop new AI model designed to aid scientific discovery.

AI data center

Is Microsoft hesitating on AI? Days after CEO said it would be upping capacity, analyst claims tech giant has actually cancelled data center leases

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft may be having doubts about its level of AI spend, analyst report claims.

Lenovo AI Stick

Lenovo demos AI Stick prototype that promises to give the power of AI to any PC thanks to a 32-TOPS NPU

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo's AI Stick will add NPU smarts to your non-AI PC, but you'll need a Thunderbolt port to connect it.

Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i

Lenovo's latest iteration of popular Yoga laptop range comes with exceptional tandem OLED tech

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo adds two Intel-powered laptops to its Aura Edition Yoga range, and refreshes the AMD-powered Yoga Pro 7.

Lenovo ThinkBook 3D Laptop

I praise Lenovo for trying to revive glasses-free 3D, but its gorgeous ThinkBook 3D laptop is too little, too late

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo has unveiled a gorgeous new laptop that can show 3D images without the need for 3D glasses.

Lenovo Magic Bay Tiko Concept

Lenovo summons spirit of Microsoft Bob with Tiko, its 'compact AI emotional interaction companion'

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo has unveiled a range of Magic Bay proof of concept accessories for the ThinkBook 16p Gen 6, including Tiko an AI emotional interaction companion.

Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 6

Lenovo just launched the lightest AMD Ryzen AI laptop ever; ThinkPad X13 Gen 6 tops scale at just over 2 lbs

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo has unveiled the ThinkPad X13 Gen 6 which is super-light at just 2 lbs and comes with the latest AMD or Intel AI CPUs.

Lenovo ThinkBook Flip AI PC Concept

I love Lenovo's audacious design with the ThinkBook Flip laptop, but I dread how fragile it will be IRL

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo's ThinkBook “codename Flip” concept combines two 13-inch OLED displays into one giant 18.1 unit with a choice of modes.

Lenovo ThinkBook 16p Gen 6

This could well be Lenovo's most powerful gaming laptop to date, but it is definitely not what you think it is

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo has unveiled the ThinkBook 16p Gen 6, a powerful laptop for gamers and creative professionals which could even rival the Legion Pro 7i for performance.

AI Display

Lenovo has put an AI chip into a monitor that not only controls it, but can also give AI powers to your PC

By Wayne Williams published

Lenovo's AI Display is a screen with a discrete NPU inside that can transfer AI powers to your non-AI PC.

Framework Desktop

This mini PC rivals Apple's Mac Studio and Nvidia's DIGITS desktop supercomputer but will cost only a fraction of the price

By Wayne Williams published

Framework Desktop is a customizable mini PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max processors and up to 128GB RAM.

Eight Sleep Pod bed

Company that reportedly supplied DOGE and Elon Musk with sleeping solutions found to have huge vulnerability in its...beds??

By Wayne Williams published

Eight Sleep reportedly supplied smart beds for Elon Musk and workers at DOGE, but its tech was found to have worrying vulnerabilities.

Framework Laptop 12

'The purest manifestation of our vision': Framework 12 gives me One Laptop Per Child vibes, and its CEO worked on the legendary OLPC project

By Wayne Williams published

Framework’s newest creation, Laptop 12, was originally designed with students in mind, and is described as the “purest manifestation” of the company’s vision.

A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by Zhong Lab could be used with a variety of materials, taking advantage of rare earths’ powerful, flexible optical properties

Scientists stored data in rare-earth crystal which could one day delivery terabyte-class storage the size of a small grain of rice

By Wayne Williams published

Scientists have found a way to use atomic level defects in crystals as a method of data storage.

Nvidia Orin Nano and Solidigm D5-P5336

World's first 122.88TB SSD gets 'reviewed' with two very odd bedfellows: the controversial DeepSeek and Nvidia's Jetson Orin AI SBC

By Wayne Williams published

Solidigm’s 122.88TB DP-P5336 SSD got tested as part of an experiment with DeepSeek and Nvidia’s Jetson Orin Nano Super motherboard.

Lonestar, data center on the moon

This startup wants to back up your data on the Moon in a 'data center' that could probably sit in the palm of your hand

By Wayne Williams published

Lonestar wants to bring data services such as Disaster Recovery and Resilience-as-a-Service to the Moon.

Samsung 9100 Pro SSD

Finally, Samsung's first PCIe 5.0 SSD that you can actually buy is here; after a nearly two-year wait, meet the 9100 Pro

By Wayne Williams published

It took almost two years, but Samsung’s first PCIe 5.0 consumer SSD, the 9100 Pro, has finally arrived.

Intel Logo

What an irony! AMD could potentially block Intel deal by invoking agreement put in place to prevent its own sale

By Wayne Williams published

If Broadcom or another buyer does want to acquire Intel, they will have to negotiate a new cross-license agreement with AMD.

Microsoft Majorana-1 quantum chip

Microsoft set to rival Google, IBM with first-of-its-kind quantum chip with topological core architecture

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip with a Topological Core architecture, paving the way for a one-million-qubit quantum processor.

HBM vs HBF memory

A GPU or a CPU with 4TB HBM-class memory? Nope, you're not dreaming, Sandisk is working on such a monstrous product

By Wayne Williams published

Sandisk has unveiled High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) for AI workloads which will have a major impact on the $100 billion HBM market.

Glowing server racks inside a data center.

xAI could sign a $5 billion deal with Dell for thousands of servers with Nvidia's GB200 Blackwell AI GPU accelerators

By Wayne Williams published

Reports claim Dell is about to secure a $5 billion deal to supply Elon Musk's xAI with yet more AI servers.

HAMR

Race to 100TB HDD heats up as Seagate pulls rug under Western Digital, Toshiba feet by acquiring HAMR-specialist

By Wayne Williams published

Seagate is set to buy a specialist in HAMR HDD production, a move which will be bad news for rivals Western Digital and Toshiba.

Heata compute powered water heater

A data center in every home! Energy company wants to heat your water for (almost) free but there's a catch

By Wayne Williams published

A British Gas-backed trial will see waste heat from data centers used to deliver free hot water to UK homes.

Western Digital HDD

Beyond 100TB, here's how Western Digital is betting on heat dot magnetic recording to reach the storage skies

By Wayne Williams published

Western Digital is betting on heat dot magnetic recording to take its HDDs to 100TB and beyond.

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