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Empowering Sustainability: 4 Strategies To Significantly Reduce the Semiconductor Industry's Carbon Footprint
The Semiconductor industry is a key enabler for nearly every device we use to travel, work, and entertain ourselves. It's needed for every sustainability effort – smart grids, the transition to renewables, low carbon footprint logistics, and supply chains. Even scientific discoveries and energy efficiency measures in factories rely on it. These chips are everywhere, and our net zero success hinges on the chips that silently power our efforts.
www.csrwire.com/, Mar. 20, 2024 –
Yet the semiconductor industry also needs to recalibrate its environmental impact. In 2021, it used enough energy to power a city of 25 million for an entire year.
Consequently, in 2022, COP27 saw the creation of a Semiconductor Climate Consortium with 60 founding members pledging to reduce emissions to 0% by 2050.
The initiative underscores the semiconductor industry's vital role in meeting the planet's sustainability targets. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
By weaving sustainability into semiconductor-fabricated electrical network designs from the outset, and with the right strategic planning and early-stage implementation, the industry can significantly reduce the carbon footprint of its chip manufacturing processes.
Complex production, resource-intensive supply chains
Semicon fabs are colossal consumers of water and energy. The giga-sized factories need increasingly massive energy supplies and significant water usage for cooling. In 2022, TSMC, the world's largest chip manufacturer, consumed 97 million metric tons of water and 22 thousand gigawatt-hours – a significant portion of Taiwan's total energy output.
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