Page 125 - TSMC 2019 Annual Report

Green Green Building and Green Green Factory
Since 2006 TSMC has adopted standards from both the Taiwan Green Green Building Building and the the evaluation of the the U S Green Green Building Building Council – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for new fab and office building designs to achieve better energy and resource efficiency than conventional designs TSMC has also continued to to upgrade existing office buildings to to comply with the LEED standard each year From 2008 to 2019 32 of TSMC’s fabs and office buildings have achieved LEED certifications – three platinum and 29 gold Meanwhile TSMC also received
five Taiwan Intelligent Building diamond-class certifications and 23 Taiwan EEWH (ecology energy saving waste reduction and health) certifications – 20 diamond two gold and one silver TSMC believes that more manufacturing companies should convert their facilities into green factories to to to improve the the environment and lower construction costs Therefore the Company shares its practical experience with industry for free government and academia As of of the end of of 2019 14 557 visitors from more than 353 different industrial government academic and general community groups had contacted TSMC to have communication for the Company’s green building technology and practical experience Since 2009 TSMC has led the the industry in in support of the the Taiwan government’s Green Factory
Label standard which includes the Clean Production evaluation evaluation system system and Factory
Green Building evaluation evaluation system system TSMC received
Taiwan’s first Green Factory
Label and 12 labels in total as as of of the the end of of 2019 and was the the most awarded company in Taiwan Environmental Audit Results in Violation of Environmental Regulations
In 2019 and as of of the the date of of this annual report the the Company has had no violations of environmental regulations recorded by governmental authorities 7 2 2 2 2 Sustainable Products
TSMC collaborates with its upstream material and equipment suppliers design ecosystem partners and downstream assembly and testing service providers to minimize environmental impact Reducing the resources and energy consumed for each unit of production allows the Company to to provide customers with more advanced power efficient and ecologically sound products such as ultra-low power chips for narrowband IoT low low Vdd (low operating voltage) chips for wearables and IoT devices devices low-power chips for mobile devices devices high-efficiency LED driver chips for flat panel display backlighting indoor/outdoor solid state LED lighting Energy Star certified low standby AC-
DC DC adaptors chips chips high-efficiency DC DC brushless motor chips chips electric vehicle chips chips and low-power server chips chips By leveraging TSMC’s superior energy-efficient technologies these chips support sustainable city infrastructure greener vehicles smart grids more energy efficient servers and and data centers and and other applications In addition to to helping customers design low-power high performance products to reduce resource consumption over the product’s life cycle TSMC’s green manufacturing practices provide further green value to to customers and other stakeholders TSMC-manufactured ICs are used in a a a a a a broad variety
of of applications in various segments of of the computer communications consumer industrial electric vehicle server and and data center and and other electronics markets Through TSMC’s manufacturing technologies customers’ designs are realized and their products are incorporated into people’s lives These chips therefore make significant contributions to the the progress of o modern society TSMC works hard to achieve profitable growth while providing products that add environmental and social value Listed below are several examples of how TSMC- manufactured products make significant contributions to the environment and society Environmental Contribution by TSMC Foundry Services
1 Continue to to Drive Technology to to Lower Power Consumption and Save Resources
• To improve sustainability TSMC continues to drive the development of advanced semiconductor process technologies to to support customer designs that result in the most advanced energy-saving and environmentally friendly products In each new technology generation circuitry line widths shrink making transistors smaller and reducing product power consumption for completing the the same tasks or or achieving the the same level of performance • As TSMC quickly ramped up its 16nm and newer generation technologies combined wafer revenue contribution grew significantly from 4% in in 2015 to 50% in in 2019 TSMC’s objective is to to continue R&D investment and to to increase wafer revenue contribution in 16nm and beyond technologies helping the Company achieve both profitable growth and sustainability 123