tag: sustainability

Ripple Effects: Why Water Risk Is The Next Major Business Challenge For The Semiconductor Industry
By Alua Suleimenova - 22 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

The semiconductor industry is the bedrock of modern technology, enabling everything from AI and cloud computing to electric vehicles. Yet, this critical sector is also one of the most resource-intensive globally, with a substantial dependency on water. A single fabrication plant can demand up to 10 million gallons of water daily, comparable to the consumption of a city with 300,000 residents.... » read more

Photonics as a Carbon-Sustainable Solution for Next-Gen AI Hardware (Boston Univ., NY CREATES, Lightmatter, Cornell Tech)
By Technical Paper Link - 21 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Photonics for sustainable AI" was published by researchers at Boston University, NY CREATES, Lightmatter and Cornell Tech. Abstract "The rising computational demands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are driving a rapid surge in carbon emissions from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Traditional CMOS-based computing is reaching its scali... » read more

Purity Requirements in the Semiconductor Industry (RMIT, ICTEAM, U. of Edinburgh)
By Technical Paper Link - 09 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Purer than pure: how purity reshapes the upstream materiality of the semiconductor industry" was published by researchers at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, and University of Edinburgh. Abstract "Growing attention is given to the environmental impacts of the digital sector, exacerbated by the increase of digital produ... » read more

How Semiconductor Fabs Use Water
By Gregory Haley - 25 Aug, 2025 - Comments: 0

Water — lots of it — is a critical enabler for advanced chip architectures, lithography, and back-end packaging. It feeds the ultra-pure water loops that touch every wafer, sluicing heat out of tools that run hotter at each node, and carrying spent chemistries to treatment. The natural reaction to reports that fabs “use millions of gallons of water” is concern, but the engineering re... » read more

2024 UMC Sustainability Report
By UMC - 21 Aug, 2025 - Comments: 0

Message from UMC's ESG Steering Committee Chairman: Jason Wang and Shan-Chieh Chien, Co-presidents and ESG Steering Committee Chairmen. "While the global economy gradually recovered from the pandemic, 2024 presented different challenges, including geopolitical shifts, inflation, inventory adjustments, and industry overcapacity. Despite these headwinds, our management team demonstrated strong... » read more

Redefining Sustainability: Operational Resilience Is the New Frontier
By Mike Halblander - 12 Aug, 2025 - Comments: 0

Powering everything from smartphones, energy infrastructure, electric transport, and AI systems, semiconductors have become a cornerstone of economic innovation. However, rapid progress has an impact. One recent survey shows that the semiconductor device manufacturing industry more than doubled its annual electricity consumption between 2015 and 2023 – an increase of 125% during that period. ... » read more

For Chip Developers, HW/SW Co-Design Key To Data Center Efficiency
By Liz Allan - 31 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

Data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) are the primary enablers of today’s power-hungry AI-driven technology, but chip designers, EDA vendors, and the data centers themselves have a long list of options available to them to help curb AI's power consumption. Chip designers play a critical role in ensuring energy efficient processing from the bottom up, whether that is hardware-so... » read more

Crisis Ahead: Power Consumption In AI Data Centers
By Ed Sperling - 21 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 2

AI data centers are consuming energy at roughly four times the rate that more electricity is being added to grids, setting the stage for fundamental shifts in where power is generated, where AI data centers are built, and much more efficient system, chip, and software architectures. The numbers are particularly striking for the United States and China, which are in a race to ramp up AI data ... » read more

Physics-Based ASICs (Normal Computing et al.)
By Technical Paper Link - 15 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Solving the compute crisis with physics-based ASICs" was published by researchers at Normal Computing Corporation, ARIA, UC Santa Barbara, University of Pennsylvania, Santa Fe Institute, Cornell University. Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and Yale University. Abstract "Escalating artificial intelligence (AI) demands expose a critical "compute crisis"... » read more

Path To Net-Zero Emissions In IC Packaging
By Louie Huang - 19 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

To strengthen climate resilience and accelerate towards net-zero emissions, ASE has implemented comprehensive carbon reduction strategies and management frameworks to practice responsible actions and achieve performance results. In our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint, we strive to design production facilities and processes that prioritize eco-efficient production and the creation of en... » read more

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