EU launches public consultation on minimum energy and water standards for data centres, aiming for 2027 legislation
The European Commission has opened a 12‑week public consultation on minimum performance standards for data centres, with contributions due by 14 December 2026 and a legislative proposal expected in the second quarter of 2027.
TSMC reportedly starts A14 pilot production ahead of plan
On 26 September 2026, reports said TSMC had begun A14 pilot production, bringing an early test phase forward while risk production is still expected next year.
iPhone 18 Pro runs a 27-billion-parameter model locally in a demonstration
A demonstration released on 19 September shows an iPhone 18 Pro running the one-bit-quantised Bonsai-27B model without a remote server; the two reports describe roughly twice the generation speed of an iPhone 17 Pro, without a full independent protocol.
Micron: AI Growth Now Hits a Memory Cooling Wall, Not Chips
At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Micron's president Scott J. DeBoer said AI now expands at the speed of memory — and thermal dissipation, not bandwidth alone, has become the hard limit on how fast AI systems can scale.
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