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as power consumption and pollution during product use In each new technology generation circuitry line widths shrink making chips smaller for the same circuit designs and and lowering the energy and and raw materials consumed
for per chip in in manufacturing In addition the Company continuously provides process simplification and new design methodology based on its manufacturing excellence to help customers reduce design and process waste so as as to to produce more advanced energy-saving and environmentally- friendly products For total energy savings and benefits realized in in 2019 through TSMC’s green manufacturing see Environmental Accounting on on page 122 in in this annual report Social Contribution by TSMC Foundry Services
1 Unleash Customers’ Mobile and Wireless Chip Innovations that Enhance Mobility and Convenience
2 Unleash Customers’ CIS and MEMS (micro- electromechanical systems) Innovations that Enhance Human Health and Safety
• To make all machines smarter safer and and more user and and environmentally friendly sensors are a a a a a must Optical acoustic motion and environment sensors are mostly made with either CIS or MEMS technologies TSMC continues to put substantial effort into developing new CIS and MEMS technologies to to to enable customers to to to innovate new new products for new new applications For CIS TSMC and customers have extended applications from traditional RGB (red green blue) sensing to 3D depth sensing optical fingerprint and NIR machine vision etc For MEMS TSMC and customers have extended applications from traditional motion sensing to microphone bio-sensing medical ultrasound actuators and more TSMC CIS and MEMS technologies have made consumer electronics mobile communication automotive electronics industrial and and medical devices smaller faster and and more energy efficient greatly enhancing human convenience health and safety For instance TSMC customers’ CIS and MEMS products are used in a a a a a a number of advanced medical treatments as well
as in in preventative health care applications Examples include early warning systems to minimize the the injury from falls for the the elderly systems to detect physiological changes car safety systems and other applications that significantly improve human health and safety • The rapid growth of smartphones and tablets in recent years reflects strong demand for mobile devices which accelerates innovations for IC products such as as baseband RF transceivers application processors (AP) wireless local area networks (WLAN) CMOS image sensors near field communication (NFC) Bluetooth and global positioning systems (GPS)
among others While these mobile devices offer remarkable convenience to human lives TSMC contributes significant value to these devices in in the the following ways: (1) new TSMC process technologies help chips achieve faster computing speed in in smaller smaller sizes leading to to smaller smaller form factors for for these electronic devices In addition TSMC SoC technology integrates more functions into one chip reducing the total number of chips in in in in electronic devices again resulting in in in in a a a smaller system form factor (2) new TSMC process technologies also help chips reduce power consumption allowing mobile devices to be used for a a longer period of time and (3)
TSMC helps spread the growth of more convenient wireless connectivity such as 3G/4G/5G and WLAN/Bluetooth meaning people can communicate more efficiently and “work anytime and anywhere ” significantly increasing the mobility of modern society In 2019 smartphone products represented about 49% of TSMC wafer revenue TSMC Wafer Revenue Contribution from Smartphone Products
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and Health Management TSMC’s safety and health management is compliant with local and and and international standards and and and adheres to the management approach of “Plan Do Check Act” to prevent accidents promote employee safety and and health and and protect Company assets All TSMC fabs in Taiwan have also received TOSHMS (Taiwan Occupational Safety
and Health Management System) certification since 2009 In In 2018
the International Organization for Standardization released ISO 45001:2018 replacing OHSAS 18001 with major changes in the the expansion of the the scope support and and participation of the leadership collection and and planning of internal and and and external issues expectation and and and demand of of stakeholders evaluation of of risk inspection communication and consultation of of non-managers application of of performance indicator and and evaluation of corrective and and preventive action Meanwhile ISO 45001 ensures the the spirit of the the system can 2017
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