Tagged “technology”
Nvidia's New CPU Is for Servers. What It Threatens Is the Secondhand Laptop Market.
Modal adopting Nvidia's Vera processor is a data centre story with no laptop in it. For laptops it still matters twice: it weakens the case for buying an AI PC, and it advances an architecture shift with a history of stranding working machines.
Aluminium Nearly Closes the Loop. Sorting Is What Stops It.
Recycling aluminium uses about 95% less energy than smelting it, and roughly three-quarters of all aluminium ever made is still in use. The obstacle is not collection. It is that aluminium is not one material.
The Digital Product Passport Is Coming. Almost None of It Is Law Yet.
Two years after the EU's ecodesign regulation entered into force, no product-specific passport rule has been adopted. Batteries is the only category with a fixed date, and the hardest question is still unanswered.
Chemical Recycling's Missing Number
The industry says it turns waste plastic back into plastic. The best independent estimate is 15-20%, the operators decline to publish their own figures, and the EU has now written accounting rules around the gap.