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Seeking to spur more green technology innovation for our industry, SEMI Startups for Sustainable Semiconductors launched the third year of the program by inviting startups, academics, and innovators with compelling ideas for advancing semiconductor industry sustainability to apply to participate.

Dr. Sondra Hellstrom of Bosch speaks to Tim Brosnihan of SEMI MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG) to preview her presentation on decarbonization at MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress (MSTC), May 23-24 at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts. 

Building on the success of the first year of Startups for Semiconductor Sustainability to spur more green tech innovation, SEMI invites startups, academics, and innovators with compelling ideas for advancing semiconductor industry sustainability to apply to participate.

Coming in the wake of the COP27, the Smart and Green Manufacturing Summit at SEMICON Europa 2022 (Munich, 15-17 November) had a timely focus on the semiconductor industry’s contribution to meeting the United Nations’ target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

SEMI welcomes members to join the Semiconductor Climate Consortium (SCC), a new effort to heighten collaboration and transparency in order to reduce chip industry greenhouse gas emissions.  Companies that commit to membership by October 21, 2022 will receive Founding Member designation.

SEMI spoke with Kate Wilson, president of the semiconductor division at Edwards Vacuum, about how her personal dedication to sustainability and Edwards Vacuum’s commitment to green practices such as contributing to the semiconductor manufacturing industry’s reduction of carbon emissions.

Kate Wilson, president of the semiconductor division at Edwards Vacuum, has already made progress in tackling critical issues like reducing Edwards’ carbon footprint, building an inclusive workplace, and contributing to overcoming the global chip shortage.

For the first time in its 20-year history, the FLEX Conference dedicated an entire session to the important and timely twin topics of environmental sustainability and power consumption of electronic devices. The event planning committee recognized the urgent need to increase the awareness of how...

In a shining hour for Prof. Mike Czerniak, environmental manager for Edwards Ltd., a SEMI member company, and Chemistry Prof. Simon O’ Doherty of the University of Bristol, the educators presented a case study on efforts by the semiconductor and aluminum industries to mitigate greenhouse gas...