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

T-Mobile rival is giving free ChatGPT Plus, worth hundreds, to its subscribers - but there's a catch

By Wayne Williams published 12 March 25

Orange France's new 5G+ plan includes a year's worth of free ChatGPT Plus, as well as Netflix.

Facebook engineers say bigger hard disk drives is making one critical metric far, far worse

By Wayne Williams published 11 March 25

Facebook engineers say that it's time for QLC flash to solve the problem of slower hard disk drives in data centers.

Glowing server racks inside a data center.

The dirty little secret about AI hardware that you should know about: server vendors have to wrestle with wafer thin margins and bigger customers

By Wayne Williams published 10 March 25

Thin margins make AI server sales a challenging business for the likes of Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.

Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

IBM’s Red Hat has teamed up with Axiom Space to send a data center to the International Space Station this spring.

Well, that's unexpected: Samsung will team up with its fiercest Chinese rival to produce next gen NAND flash

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

Samsung has signed an agreement with China’s YMTC to use its bonding technology in the production of 400-layer NAND flash memory.

Chinese researchers are looking to create a revolutionary type of hard drive based on organic materials but huge unknowns remain

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

Chinese researchers want to create revolutionary molecular hard drives, but we have questions.

A breakthrough in computing: Cortical Labs' CL1 is the first living biocomputer and costs almost the same as 'Apple's best failure'

By Wayne Williams published 9 March 25

Cortical Labs' CL1 is the world’s first commercialized biological computer with real neurons on a silicon chip.

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

The writing could be on the wall for HDDs as IBM debuts its FlashSystem C200 storage system.

Alibaba doubles down on RISC-V architecture with a new secretive 'server-grade' chip that will put AMD and Intel on alert

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

Alibaba’s research arm has launched its first server-grade RISC-V processor to take on Intel and AMD.

Scientists firmly in AI crosshairs as Google launches co-scientist scheme to accelerate scientific breakthroughs just days after another similar project

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

Google has launched an AI co-scientist scheme to accelerate scientific breakthrough using specialized agents.

Reliance Corporate Park (RCP), Navi Mumbai

'Who wants to be a billionaire?': Millions will get app to 'build high compute AI applications' and get them deployed across India's largest phone network

By Wayne Williams published 8 March 25

Digital arm of India’s Reliance Industries is building a hardware-less cloud-based personal PC.

This is Amazon's first foray in servers, and certainly not the last: MicroTik franken-router is powered by the AWS Graviton 1 Arm CPU

By Wayne Williams published 7 March 25

MicroTik's RDS2216 data server has 16 ports and is powered by Amazon's Graviton 1 Arm CPU used on AWS.

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 6 March 25

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 5 March 25

Scientists develop new AI model designed to aid scientific discovery.

Dell 32 Curved 4K UHD Monitor - S3221QSA

This stunning 4K 32-inch curved monitor from Dell is now available at its cheapest price ever thanks to this exclusive coupon

By Wayne Williams published 5 March 25

Dell’s S3221QSA is a good all-round curved 4K monitor that supports HDR content playback - and is now cheaper than ever.

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 4 March 25

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

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 3 March 25

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 3 March 25

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

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 3 March 25

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 3 March 25

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.