Articles by Wayne Williams, Editor

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

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

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

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

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

By Wayne Williams

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

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

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.

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

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

'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

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

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

By Desire Athow

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 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

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

The $13,500 that changed the fate of humanity: how the term Artificial Intelligence was first coined 71 years ago — but sadly without the legendary visionary soul who imagined it

By Wayne Williams

From Alan Turing’s early thought experiments to the Dartmouth project that coined the term, the origins of artificial intelligence is a fascinating story.

This is the first PCIe 6.0 SSD you can actually buy and by 'you' I mean hyperscalers — Micron 9650 can reach 28GBps read speeds and will only be used for AI inference

By Wayne Williams

Micron has launched the 9650, the first PCIe 6.0 SSD built for hyperscale AI inference workloads and high-bandwidth data center storage.

Tens of billions of dollars wiped out from household name brands as obscure "penny stock" karaoke-vendor-turned-AI platform debuts "game-changing platform"

By Wayne Williams

Logistics stocks tumble after tiny AI firm claims massive freight efficiency gains trigger investor fears over automation replacing jobs and reshaping industry costs.

“The next big lemming-like rush will be to artificial intelligence”: While 1985 was hailed as the year of AI, Bill Gates ignored the hype to focus on ‘softer software’

By Wayne Williams

In 1983, Bill Gates turned away from AI hype and championed “softer software” which adapted to users' needs.

Samsung Semiconductors industry first commercial HBM4

Samsung says it “took the leap” with HBM4, as it starts shipping faster AI memory built on advanced process nodes

By Wayne Williams

Samsung begins to ship HBM4 memory at 11.7Gbps speeds, and claims an early industry lead.

“It’s cheaper for you and more profitable for us”: In 1998, Larry Ellison predicted the world we live in today, where you pay over and over for software you don’t own

By Wayne Williams

Larry Ellison’s 1998 vision of leasing software predicted today’s cloud subscriptions and the end of traditional software ownership.

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64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

By Wayne Williams

64GB of DDR5 RAM surges from the low $200s to over $1000 in six months, with prices still climbing.

'SDUC cards in multi-terabyte capacities are already shipping': but where are these removable memory cards with 4TB or 8TB capacities that Sandisk launched almost two years ago?

By Wayne Williams

The SD Association outlines a future of SD Express speeds and SDUC capacities up to 128TB, although where are the 4TB and 8TB cards announced years ago?

'I was out in Korea just a couple of weeks ago': SK Hynix partner has a cunning plan to simplify SSDs and cut memory use by 99% amidst RAM crisis

By Wayne Williams

StreamFast SSD concept removes the flash translation layer and controller DRAM, using sequential device-assigned addresses to slash memory use.

A wireless HDMI transmitter meets a USB hub and the result is a surprisingly capable docking station for your laptop, your smartphone or even your gaming console - oh and you will absolutely love the receiver

By Wayne Williams

4URPC’s wireless HDMI transmitter doubles as a 10Gbps USB hub with SD slots and 100W charging, turning a simple casting tool into a compact dock for laptops and tablets.

Larry Ellison, CTO and Chairman of Oracle

"The height of nonsense": Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s 1987 argument that not everything should be AI makes perfect sense in 2026

By Wayne Williams

Decades before the current AI boom, Oracle's Larry Ellison argued that applying AI to every problem was "the height of nonsense."

This new home energy system works while you sleep - and can shave nearly £1000 off UK electricity bills, with no upfront costs

By Wayne Williams

New UK battery subscription targets soaring electricity bills by shifting household power use to cheaper overnight tariffs.

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"Weirder than Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak put together": Japan's answer to Steve Jobs predicted personified computers, smartphones and AI in 1984 through a sixth sense, viewing the world as a dog or a dolphin

By Wayne Williams

In 1984, Sunao Takatori used his sixth sense to imagine a vision of computing that feels strikingly familiar today.

’What will people do in the year 2050, given the enormous intellectual power computers are likely to have?’: The man Google calls the spiritual father of AI asked big questions in 1991 — 35 years later, we’re still wrestling with the answers

By Wayne Williams

Ray Kurzweil’s 1991 AI predictions feel strikingly familiar today, revealing how progress advanced faster than our understanding of intelligence and purpose.

Hear me out! Instead of buying a mini PC, get MSI’s Claw handheld gaming console – it’s powered by a Core Ultra 7 with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM, and priced under £300 (no, that’s not a typo)

By Wayne Williams

MSI’s Claw handheld gaming console is powered by a Core Ultra 7 CPU with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM, and priced under £300.

No, it’s not the latest games console - AtomMan G7 Pro mini PC from Minisforum goes on sale with a Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070 in a super slim chassis, but you might be better off buying a Dell

By Wayne Williams

Minisforum AtomMan G7 Pro delivers Core i9-14900HX performance in a super slim mini PC design.

Ulefone Armor 30 Pro rugged phone can handle all weather, offers dual screens, days of battery life, and you can save £160 if you act fast

By Wayne Williams

Armor 30 Pro rugged phone is just £339 and delivers multi-day battery life, dual screens, and extreme durability.

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