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The European Union has taken a significant step toward greener computing, with Brussels unveiling its Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package this week. The initiative introduces a common EU rating scheme and electronic label designed to make it easier to compare the environmental performance of facilities that consume enormous amounts of power, with minimum performance standards potentially on the horizon.
Shifting to consumer audio, Sonos has made a strong play in the premium headphone market with its new Ace Ultra. Arriving two years after the original Ace, the upgraded wireless over-ear model brings enhanced custom forty millimeter drivers, a new headphone engine, and improved battery life, signaling that the multi-room audio specialist is serious about competing at the top end of the headphone space.
And in semiconductor news, Singapore-based startup Nexstrom has raised new funding with an ambitious goal: bringing two-dimensional semiconductor materials into mainstream chip fabrication. As the industry pushes against the physical limits of traditional silicon, two-D materials represent one of the more promising paths forward, and Nexstrom wants to build the equipment that makes manufacturing them at scale actually possible.
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