"GREEN" Chips ...somehow...

 https://globalelectronicscouncil.org/ecolabels/ Products meeting EPEAT criteria are listed on the  EPEAT online registry . Among the hundreds of environmental labels in the marketplace today, Type 1 ecolabels are  recognized  by the United Nations Environment Programme as the most reliable. Thousands of businesses, schools, hospitals and governments worldwide trust EPEAT to inform and streamline their purchase of sustainable technology products. GEC believes there are important reasons why Type 1 ecolabels are considered the  most reliable  for public and private sector institutional purchasers.

 https://datacentrereview.com/2021/12/how-green-chips-are-powering-a-sustainable-future/ The link between the exponentially growing amount of data and the rising global temperature is direct and proven. Processing the ever-increasing amount of data requires immense energy — and the energy sector is responsible for  approximately 72%  of the world’s greenhouse emissions, making electricity the largest contributor to global warming, according to Greenpeace. Just like a smartphone gets hot when the battery or CPU overloads, a data centre gets hot as the amount of data traffic increases. Cooling it off requires substantial amounts of energy, which is why quite a few data centres are in cold regions like Finland, Sweden and Iceland, where cold air and seawater are in abundance. The future is looking challenging, with the amount of energy used to store and process human data forecast to surpass the amount of energy used to produce it.  IDC’s Global DataSphere  estimat...

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  https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/sustainability/product-carbon-footprint.html With SiGREEN, you can quantify emissions as they occur on-site and aggregate them along the entire value chain. The result is a dynamic PCF that helps you make data-driven decisions for impactful reduction measures

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 https://paia.mit.edu/ Product Attributes to Impact Algorithm (PAIA) is an easy-to-use web-based platform that delivers the environmental footprint of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) products. It is the result of a collaboration between MIT and Quantis to deliver on three key components: a streamlined methodology for ICT product footprinting, a suite of simplified online tools, and a consortium of ICT companies.

 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/driving-sustainability-alignment-semiconductor-value-chain.html#gs.8bcf0q (Març 2024)  Last week (march 20 th , 2024), Intel, Siemens, Cisco and other sponsors, (...), convened more than 140 organizations (...) for the inaugural global Intel Sustainability Summit. The aim was to unite efforts to reduce our environmental impact, including transitioning to sustainable chemistries, standardizing carbon footprint methodologies and developing complementary net-zero roadmaps.

https://datalynq.com/post/how-to-manage-the-complexity-of-market-availability-for-electronic-components (Abril 2024). Datalynq is Sourceability’s market intelligence tool. It was recently integrated into Cadence’s OrCAD X Platform under Live BOM to provide design engineers with early warnings about risk-prone components in their designs. By replacing these components early with safer parts, product designs become more sustainable in the long run, preventing problems with advanced and mature nodes.  

https://semiengineering.com/goals-of-going-green/ (July 25th, 2023). For semiconductor manufacturers cost and performance has been the primary focus, but environmental impact is now a growing concern. The simultaneous growth in device demand and focus on sustainability is creating significant challenges. International demands on reporting and pressure from end system producers will be placing more and more emphasis on these matters. Companies are taking this seriously. Given the inherent interdependency in the industry between suppliers, manufactures and system makers, no one company can mitigate environmental impacts on its own. To improve everyone, needs to work together.

https://capitanswing.com/libros/cobalto-rojo/ Sinopsis En un trabajo de investigación desgarrador, el escritor y activista Siddharth Kara revela los abusos contra los derechos humanos que se esconden tras la minería del cobalto en la República Democrática del Congo, y las implicaciones morales que nos afectan a todos. Aproximadamente el 75 por ciento del suministro mundial de cobalto se extrae en el Congo, a menudo por campesinos y niños en condiciones infrahumanas. Kara se adentró en el territorio del cobalto para documentar los testimonios de las personas que viven, trabajan y mueren por él. Para desvelar la verdad sobre las brutales prácticas de extracción, investigó las zonas mineras controladas por las milicias, rastreó la cadena de suministro del cobalto, desde el pozo tóxico hasta los gigantes tecnológicos que tratan con el consumidor, y recogió estremecedores relatos de personas que soportan un inmenso sufrimiento e incluso mueren extrayendo el...

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02622 (Feb. 2021). In this report, we examine the available evidence regarding ICT's current and projected climate impacts. We examine peer-reviewed studies which estimate ICT's current share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be 1.8-2.8% of global GHG emissions. Our findings indicate that published estimates all underestimate the carbon footprint of ICT, possibly by as much as 25%, by failing to account for all of ICT's supply chains and full lifecycle (i.e. emissions scopes 1, 2 and fully inclusive 3). Adjusting for truncation of supply chain pathways, we estimate that ICT's share of emissions could actually be as high as 2.1-3.9%.

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02839 As computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, however, so does its environmental impact. This paper brings the issue to the attention of computer-systems researchers. Our analysis, built on industry-reported characterization, quantifies the environmental effects of computing in terms of carbon emissions

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271 The growing carbon footprint of artificial intelligence (AI) models, especially large ones such as GPT-3, has been undergoing public scrutiny. Unfortunately, however, the equally important and enormous water (withdrawal and consumption) footprint of AI models has remained under the radar. For example, training GPT-3 in Microsoft’s state-of-the-art U.S. data centers can directly evaporate 700,000 liters of clean freshwater, but such information has been kept a secre

  https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insights/sustainability-in-semiconductor-operations-toward-net-zero-production As semiconductor companies ramp up production to meet surging demand, greenhouse-gas reduction deserves equal emphasis.

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insights/keeping-the-semiconductor-industry-on-the-path-to-net-zero   Growing demand for semiconductors means industry emissions are likely to increase. Semiconductor companies are making sustainability commitments, but more is needed to achieve net zero.

 https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-fab At this week’s COP27 climate conference in Egypt, attendees will have a new group to contend with: an alliance of more than 60 companies involved in the electronics supply chain. Called the Semiconductor Climate Consortium, it formed last week in collaboration with SEMI, the industry association for the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain. The aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “throughout the electronics value chain,” according to SEMI. The founding members have all affirmed support for the Paris Agreement, which is aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. Founding members include some of the biggest owners of semiconductor fabs, including GlobalFoundries, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and TSMC. But it also includes some fabless companies such as AMD, Google, and Microsoft. Suppliers of equipment, chemicals, and packaging technology are also well represented among the founders. “SCC members recogn...

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  Post See new posts Conversationhttps://globalelectronicscouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Director-GEC-Assurance-Services-Operations.pdf Global Electronics Council @GEC_org We're hiring! Global Electronics Council is looking for a Director of GEC Assurance Services & Operations. Join us in our mission to drive sustainability in the electronics industry. Apply now: https:// buff.ly/3PMQWhT 3:00 PM · Apr 10, 2024

 https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/features/five-sustainability-heroes  Conclusion Increasing sustainability is not just a single significant action, it can also be the combination of thousands of smaller changes that come together to form a greater net change. Through smarter component selection, deeper development and intelligent maintenance techniques, the electronics industry can work to reduce energy consumption, as well as lower raw material requirement through greater integration, maintenance schedules, and miniaturised designs. The sustainability ‘heroes’ highlighted here are a diverse range of products and solutions that can provide improvement through both significant innovation and through continued iterative improvement. Such components and systems can be used by engineers today to help improve the sustainability of future designs.