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

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 23 February 25

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 23 February 25

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

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 23 February 25

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

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

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

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

The end of an era? TSMC, Broadcom could tear apart Intel's legendary business after 57 years by separating its foundry and chip design

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

Broadcom and TSMC reportedly looking to chop Intel in half, with separate interests in its foundry and chip design.

Sandisk's revolutionary new memory promises DRAM-like performance, 4X capacity at half the price

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

Sandisk's upcoming 3D Matrix Memory promises DRAM-like performance at four times the capacity and half the cost.

Sandisk plans 256TB SSD in 2026 and 512TB SSD in 2027 and no, you won't be able to install it in your desktop computer

By Wayne Williams published 22 February 25

Sandisk plans a 256TB SSD in 2026 and a 512TB SSD in 2027, with a 1PB model on the roadmap.

This is the weirdest laptop I've ever seen and it reminds me of an often-mocked, thoroughly misunderstood Toshiba notebook

By Wayne Williams published 21 February 25

The Bapaco is a a Windows 11 laptop that's also a display and keyboard for Windows, macOS and Android.

Nvidia rival claims DeepSeek world record as it delivers industry-first performance with 95% fewer chips

By Wayne Williams published 20 February 25

Nvidia rival SambaNova claims DeepSeek world record as it delivers industry-first performance with just 16 custom chips.

SDR Drone killer for Framework 16 Laptop

Fancy a drone destroyer? Someone transformed a Framework 16 laptop into a UAV killer thanks to a custom SDR module

By Wayne Williams published 18 February 25

A hardware designer has developed a drone jammer using a custom SDR module for the Framework modular laptop.

Yay, you can now use AMD's fastest ever GPU - AMD's Instinct MI325X AI accelerator has 256GB memory and can run Crysis (sort of)

By Wayne Williams published 18 February 25

Vultr is the first cloud platform to deploy AMD's Instinct MI325X GPU, ahead of Microsoft and Google.

Hell freezes, pigs fly: Rumor has it that Intel could merge with AMD's former foundry in potential multi-billion deal

By Wayne Williams published 17 February 25

Rumors suggest that Intel could merge with GlobalFoundries, AMD's former chip manufacturer, in a potential multi-billion-dollar deal.

The only way is stack! Arm wants to build its own CPU server for hyperscalers, reports say, and AMD won't be happy

By Wayne Williams published 17 February 25

A report says Arm is trying to recruit talent from some of its largest customers to help develop its own chips.

Seagate Exos 28TB Factory Recertified HDD

Hundreds of the world's largest hard disk drive have mysteriously gone on sale online as refurbished model - should you buy them?

By Wayne Williams published 16 February 25

Hundreds of Seagate's Exos 28TB HDDs, the world's largest hard disk drive, have mysteriously gone on sale online as refurbished models - should you buy one?

'Like a field plowed prior to planting': Researchers want to grow lasers, yes lasers, on material commonly found in sand

By Wayne Williams published 16 February 25

Researchers at Imec have found a way to grow lasers directly on silicon, a material commonly found in sand.

Forget about Blu-ray, Fluo-ray discs may well be the future of optical data storage with 10TB capacities for $1

By Wayne Williams published 16 February 25

Optera Data is working on a new optical storage technology with its sights on 10TB capacities for as low as $1.

This $4299 laptop comes with 128GB RAM by default plus an AMD Ryzen AI 9 APU, and I can't wait to test it

By Wayne Williams published 15 February 25

HP's $4299 EliteBook X G1a laptop has 128GB RAM and challenges the most expensive 14-inch MacBook Pro.

We're getting achingly closer to SOT-MRAM; the memory that could one day replace DRAM and NAND, but I can't see it happening soon

By Wayne Williams published 15 February 25

Researchers claim to have reached a goal that will allow SOT-MRAM to become reality sooner, just not too soon.

Nvidia, look away! OpenAI is almost ready to deliver first prototype of its AI GPU - General Processing Unit

By Wayne Williams published 14 February 25

OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom to design its own AI chip in a bid for some independence from Nvidia, and it's nearly ready.

Artists representation of a hole etched into Silicon Oxide and Silicon Nitride

Flash memory breakthrough could help supercharge NAND production for SSD, memory cards - but does it actually matter?

By Wayne Williams published 12 February 25

Scientists have found a way to double the efficiency of etching in 3D NAND, speeding up its creation.

Quick! Beat Microsoft 365's sneaky price increase with this Office-busting deal that could save you hundreds

By Wayne Williams published 12 February 25

Beat Microsoft 365's sneaky price increase with this deal.

Samsung HBM roadmap shows Google could become Nvidia's fiercest competitor in AI by 2026, but I wonder what's happening to Microsoft

By Wayne Williams published 11 February 25

Samsung’s HBM roadmap shows Nvidia is the top buyer of high-bandwidth memory, followed by Google and Amazon.

Arm's Japanese owner is rumored to be buying Arm's only independent server chip vendor but I don't understand the rationale behind it

By Wayne Williams published 10 February 25

Ampere Computing could be sold to Softbank for $6.5 billion in a surprising move that could change the data center CPU market.

Nvidia and AMD trade blows over who is faster on DeepSeek AI benchmarks, so which team is telling the truth?

By Wayne Williams published 9 February 25

AMD claims its RX 7900 XTX runs DeepSeek R1 faster than Nvidia’s RTX 4090, 4080 Super, but Nvidia says the opposite is true.

Abstract image of robots working in an office environment including creating blueprint of robot arm, making a phone call, and typing on a keyboard

Humans optional: Tomorrow's Internet of Agents is being planned today and will bypass homo sapiens almost entirely

By Wayne Williams published 9 February 25

Tomorrow's "Internet of Agents" is being planned today by Cisco and Microsoft and will bypass homo sapiens almost entirely.

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