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

Orico 2.5 inch External Hard Drive Enclosure

I’m a big fan of Orico’s USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure for accessing old drives on the go, and it’s 15% off for Amazon Spring Deal Days

By Wayne Williams Published

Forget buying expensive portable SSDs, Orico’s USB 3.0 enclosure is under £6 for Amazon's Spring Deal Days.

AI

'People don’t trust bad AI voices': listeners rated a Chinese startup's synthetic voices higher for trust and realism than those from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon

By Desire Athow Published

Exclusive Listeners rated a Chinese startup's AI voices more realistic and trustworthy than those from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 kit

Finally some good news for RAM buyers — Corsair’s 32GB Vengeance DDR5-6000 kit is £126 off right now at Amazon

By Wayne Williams Published

Save nearly 25% on the 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 kit right now, a rare win for RAM buyers.

Lenovo LOQ 15IRX10 laptop

Lenovo LOQ RTX 5050 laptop gets a huge £300 discount in Amazon's Spring Deal Days sale — with a Core i5 processor, 24GB RAM, and 1TB SSD

By Wayne Williams Published

Lenovo LOQ is a powerful laptop for creatives, students, and power users — and it’s £300 (25%) off in Amazon’s Spring Deal Days sale right now.

TerraMaster F4 SSD NAS

Want to store up to 32TB in a paperback-sized NAS? The TerraMaster F4 SSD is on sale right now for Amazon's Spring Deal Days

By Wayne Williams Published

The TerraMaster F4 SSD is a fast, compact storage upgrade for just £368 — a great option for anyone building a reliable home or small-office NAS.

Steelcase Leap office chair

'The gold-standard of office chairs': Steelcase Leap is massively discounted for Amazon's Spring Deal Days sale

By Wayne Williams Published

No more back pain: The Steelcase Leap office chair is nearly £350 off for Amazon's Spring Deal Days.

FlexiSpot E1 Plus standing desk

Don’t miss this £94 FlexiSpot standing desk in Amazon’s Spring Deal Days sale — it beats cheap rivals for one very solid reason

By Wayne Williams Published

FlexiSpot’s E1 Plus standing desk has all the specs I look for in a standing desk, including that all-important stability thanks to a solid single-piece desktop.

Steelcase Series 2 Ergonomic Office Chair

'Splendidly comfortable': Steelcase Series 2 is the ergonomic office chair we recommend, and it's nearly £200 off in Amazon's Spring Deal Days sale

By Wayne Williams Published

'Splendidly comfortable' Steelcase Series 2 chair is nearly £200 off for Amazon's Spring Deal Days.

Biomemory DNA storage card

“We intend to launch our first end-to-end commercial DNA Data Storage solutions before the end of 2026”: Biomemory outlines its DNA storage roadmap after Catalog deal

By Desire Athow Published

Exclusive French DNA storage pioneer Biomemory has acquired rival Catalog, and told us where it sees the technology in the years ahead.

Prof. Rodney Brooks' Cog robot

Before The Matrix and The Terminator, there was 'The Creation of the Humanoids' — how an obscure 1962 B-movie set the scene for robot takeover and introduced the concept of centralized intelligence

By Wayne Williams Published

Before modern robots, a 1962 B-movie and 1990s MIT research reshaped machine intelligence.

Nipogi Kron Mini

This Windows 11 mini PC deal is a serious office upgrade: Acemagic Kron Mini K1 has a Ryzen 5 7430U CPU and 16GB RAM — and you can save £130 with this special code

By Wayne Williams Published

The Acemagic Kron Mini KI has a Ryzen 5 7430U CPU, 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD - and costs just £330 with this special code.

Microsoft Surface Laptop

Big savings for students and professionals — Microsoft’s Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X Plus, Copilot AI and 16GB RAM is £350 off

By Wayne Williams Published

Save big on Microsoft’s 7th Edition Surface Laptop at Amazon, now down to £892 for a limited time.

Multiverse Computing

“Rewriting the blueprint, not removing bricks”: Multiverse Computing says it can shrink large AI models and cut memory use in half

By Desire Athow Published

Exclusive Multiverse launches compressed OpenAI language model designed to cut memory needs and lower AI infrastructure costs.

Intel Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ processors

“AI in networks isn’t CPU vs. GPU”: Intel unveils 18A-based Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ for edge AI and early 6G infrastructure

By Wayne Williams Published

Intel expands Xeon 6 lineup with 288-core Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ targeting AI workloads in 5G networks.

Huawei Atlas 950 SuperPoD

Huawei debuts its Atlas 950 AI SuperPoD at MWC 2026, taking the AI data center fight to Nvidia and AMD

By Wayne Williams Published

Atlas 950 AI SuperPoD goes global as Huawei challenges Nvidia and AMD in data center computing.

Lenovo ThinkTab X11

Finally, someone launched an Android tablet for grownups: Lenovo ThinkTab X11 is a durable, rugged slate that will come with a long warranty and the backing of the world's largest PC maker

By Wayne Williams Published

Lenovo unveils ThinkTab X11 rugged Android tablet at MWC 2026 with Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, IP68 durability, and a removable battery design.

Intense close-up of RAM against a black background

AI is competing with humans to buy DDR5 memory amid the RAMpocalypse caused by its owns appetite for memory

By Wayne Williams Published

DDR5 memory listings scraped 50,000 times per hour by bots as AI boom fuels new opportunities for resellers.

Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Detachable

Lenovo embraces Microsoft Surface Pro design with ThinkPad X13 detachable tablet PC — but with a $2,000 starting price, is it too expensive for its own good?

By Wayne Williams Published

Lenovo reveals ThinkPad X13 Detachable at MWC 2026 with Surface-inspired design, Core Ultra Series 3 processors, and a $1,999 starting price.

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X processor

Prices of AMD's popular Ryzen 5 series doubled since February 1st to $400 — nobody knows why, but here's what may have happened

By Wayne Williams Published

AMD Ryzen 5 prices doubled to $400 in February 2026 amid memory shortages, wafer constraints, and thinning retail inventory.

Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB SSD

World’s largest SSD has tripled in price in just nine months and now costs more than a new car

By Wayne Williams Published

World’s largest SSD has tripled in price in just nine months and now costs $37,128, roughly $302 per terabyte.

Gene Amdahl, taken March 13 2008

Before Cerebras, there was Amdahl: How legendary US engineer was way ahead of his time with wafer-scale integration and plotted supercomputer performance for the humble PC 43 years ago

By Wayne Williams Published

How Gene Amdahl turned IBM’s mainframe blueprint into a rival empire — and gambled on wafer-scale silicon decades before the AI era made it viable.

Toshiba T100

A portable computer in a suitcase: Toshiba's 1982 T100 was nothing like any computer ever launched till then and it even came with a modem and a mechanical keyboard

By Wayne Williams Published

A suitcase-style CP/M computer with LCD, modem, and mechanical keyboard - the Toshiba T100 redefined early portable business computing.

Steve Jobs and Mike Markkula

'What we really wanted was Mike': How Mike Markkula was Apple's first true master marketer before Steve Jobs and wrote the business plan that made Apple a Fortune 500 company

By Wayne Williams Published

How Mike Markkula transformed Apple from garage experiment into the business that reshaped personal computing.

June Paik CEO of FuriosaAI

“The AI data centers of 2036 won’t be filled with GPUs”: FuriosaAI’s CEO on the future of silicon

By Desire Athow Published

We talk AI hardware, data centers, Nvidia’s dominance, and the future of inference chips with June Paik, CEO and co-founder of FuriosaAI.

Asus ExpertBook B5 G2

Asus quietly launched Windows 11 Pure edition and almost no one noticed; 'Not for open channel' OS alludes to a faster, better, cleaner version of Microsoft's popular system

By Wayne Williams Published

Asus quietly ships ExpertBook B5 G2 with an unadvertised Windows 11 Pure OS option that appears tailored for enterprise customers.

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