Keumars Afifi-Sabet

Keumars Afifi-Sabet

Freelance Contributor

Keumars Afifi-Sabet is a freelance contributor for Tech Radar and Technology Editor for Live Science. He has written for a variety of publications including ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive. He has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years, having previously held the role of features editor with ITPro. In his previous role, he oversaw the commissioning and publishing of long form in areas including AI, cyber security, cloud computing and digital transformation.

An NCTJ-qualified journalist who specialises in technology, his path into journalism began at university. He immersed himself in student media while studying for a degree in biomedical sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. After graduating, Keumars wrote for a variety of local and national publications as a freelancer, including The Independent, The Observer, and Metro. While studying for his NCTJ certification, his work was commended in the category of ‘Top Scoop’ in the 2017 NCTJ awards. He’s also registered as a foundational chartered manager with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), having qualified as a Level 3 Team leader with distinction in 2023.

Articles by: Keumars Afifi-Sabet

The Ayar Labs optical light technology on show at SC23

Nvidia-backed startup uses Intel chip to replace electrical signals with light to reach Tbps speeds – here is what it looks like in the flesh

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The optical system could be foundational to technologies like 6G, company claims

Somebody holding a pane of glass on which you can store data

Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough that could finally make ransomware attacks impossible in the data center and hyperscalers — but only Azure customers will benefit from it

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The technology is strikingly similar to ceramics-based storage and may replace current day technology soon

An AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor seated into a black motherboard

The fastest 'storage device' you can buy — enthusiast uses AMD Ryzen's 3D V-Cache to produce tiny, uber-fast pseudo SSD that could pave way to exciting prospects

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The best SSDs out there can't exceed 150GB/s yet – but the AMD CPU hit speeds up to 180GB/s

A slate from a line of storage media being removed

Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say.

Image of a data center seen through glass with water dripping off it

'A mini data center village under the sea' — China sinks tens of thousands of powerful servers in fresh seawater as it grapples with demand for more power

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

China's underwater data center facility could save 122 million kWh of electricity and 105,000 tons of water each year

Best External Hard Drives for Mac

Hard drive prices could go up significantly after the rumored 'collapse' of key player — paving the way for growing SSD domination in the storage market

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

With hard drive shipments collapsing already, supply chain disruption could be a major setback for Seagate and Western Digital

AMD

AMD's 96-core behemoth just sent Intel's best processor into oblivion to claim 19 world speed records — and it's only just getting started

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Workstation speed demon could be set to dominate the charts for many, many months to come

WD Ultrastar DC HC680 28TB

Western Digital finally unveils 28TB HDD as race for 30TB reaches boiling point — but the Ultrastar DC HC680 remains a data center HDD that no consumers will be able to use

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Both companies are hoping to launch more-than-30TB hard drives next year… but who will strike first?

Orange servers and networks

China in a bull shop: One of the largest Chinese tech companies has announced a 'game-changing' 3,072-core RISC-V server that used an indigeneous CPU — on US soil

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

China hits a key milestone with Alibaba demonstrating the first cloud server powered by a RISC-V chip.

Seagate Exos Corvault 4U106

Seagate has launched a massive 29TB hard disk drive that almost nobody noticed — but you can only buy the biggest ever HDD in a 2500TB storage device

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Seagate's Corvault HAMR drives won't be sold separately.

HPC

I think Microsoft Azure “Eagle” is probably the most important tech news of 2023 that you haven't heard of — here's why

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Microsoft's Eagle supercomputer is the most powerful cloud-facing system in the world.

Intel

Intel has a new rival to Nvidia's uber-popular H100 AI GPU — meet Gaudi3 with a whopping 128GB RAM

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The 5nm Gaudi3 has 1.5-times the bandwidth of the 96GB memory fitted into its 7nm predecessor.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU

"It's unstoppable": First reviews of AMD's fastest ever processor reveal a frightening prospect — there's no way Intel will win the peformance crown for a few years

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX trounces Intel's Xeon W9-3495X CPU in multi-threaded tests.

MSI S2302 server

No computer has ever supported this much system memory — MSI unveils Intel server that can take up to 18TB DDR5 (yes, that's terabyte)

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

MSI S2302 2U server is powered by two 4th-Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs.

The Aurora supercomputer

The GPT to rule them all: Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US government has just begun

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

LLM playfully dubbed 'ScienceGPT' is being trained from data from the Aurora supercomputer.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Next year's B100 graphics processor is likely to perform more than twice as well as the H200.

Dell’s Ultrasharp 27 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

This Dell monitor has more ports than three Apple MacBook Air laptops put together — it misses out on display perfection as it doesn't come with a webcam or offer 4K resolutions

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

New Dell LED monitor boasts 15 ports and slots - but is missing a few crucial features.

Lenovo Thinkstation P8

Lenovo just announced a ThreadRipper 7000 workstation with AMD's most powerful GPU ever — yes, the Nvidia RTX A6000 competitor that can handle 12K resolution

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

This workstation is pitched at professionals working on real-time graphical workloads and AI applications.

Micron's family of DDR5 RAM

Micron just announced a 128GB DDR5 module and a roadmap — but the bigger news is that you probably won't be able to buy DDR6 till at least 2029

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

This is a year later than we’d have previously expected DDR6 to be ready for distribution.

Nvdia H100 CNX

Can't purchase Nvidia's hottest and fastest GPU ever? Don't panic — Fujitsu has a plan to help you use your existing GPU stock more efficiently using a simple trick

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The CPU/GPU resource optimization technology cuts down program switches from seconds to just 100ms.

Philips 49B2U5900CH

One of the world's largest business monitors has an extraordinary feature that other manufacturers should embrace — a no-touch KVM switch that allows you to switch computers

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The 49-inch Philips 49B2U5900CH monitor features a Busylight indicator that can sync with Microsoft Teams.

Nvidia H100

"Predatory pre-annoucement" - The brain behind the largest CPU ever calls out Nvidia for spreading ‘FUD’ amidst surprise updated GPU roadmap announcement

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Nvidia is promising annual GPU releases until 2026, but not everyone thinks they can follow through on this.

The Diamond Foundry's ultrathin diamond wafer

Someone has used diamonds and a high-end Nvidia GPU to build perhaps the world's fastest graphics card ever — but you won't be able to buy it yet

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

Diamond Foundry used heteroepitaxy to create single-crystal diamonds on scalable substrates.

Ampere 7StarLake TEC300S

This PC pairs an Nvidia GPU with a 128-core ARM CPU — yes, you can even use it next to a water sprinkler but no, I don't think you can run Starfield on it

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The Ampere 7StarLake TEC300S is IP-65 rated and can support up to 4TB RAM alongside a GPU.

Ventana Veyron V2

À la carte processing units could be the future of computing — and this 192-core RISC-V processor with built-in accelerators could be AMD and Intel's most formidable rival yet

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published

The 12-core Veyron 2 RISC-V CPU is 23% faster than the 128-core AMD EPYC Bergamo chip.

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