Utilized Supplies Stories Progress on Web Zero 2040 Playbook

• Firm’s newest Sustainability Report outlines efforts to scale back the semiconductor trade’s carbon emissions

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Utilized Supplies, Inc. has printed its newest Sustainability Report, detailing the corporate’s progress over the previous yr in decreasing its carbon emissions and collaborating with prospects and companions to drive a extra sustainable semiconductor trade.

“As know-how transforms our world at an unprecedented tempo, the semiconductor trade must considerably scale up international chip manufacturing capability whereas concurrently discovering a path to web zero,” stated Gary Dickerson, President and CEO of Utilized Supplies. “These are advanced challenges that no single firm – or nation – can clear up alone, and Utilized Supplies is dedicated to collaborating throughout the semiconductor provide chain to outline and deploy revolutionary options to scale back the trade’s environmental affect.”

The rise of the Web of Issues (IoT) and synthetic intelligence (AI) is creating the chance for semiconductor trade income to double by across the finish of the last decade, but information exhibits that the trade’s carbon footprint is on a path to quadruple in the identical time interval.* To assist tackle this imbalance, Utilized developed its Web Zero 2040 Playbook – a collaborative strategy to decreasing the corporate’s and the semiconductor trade’s carbon emissions.

Utilized continued to supply 100% of its U.S. electrical energy from renewables in 2023, and it elevated its international sourcing to 70 p.c. The corporate commissioned one of many largest rooftop photo voltaic arrays in Central Texas at its Austin Logistics Service Heart, which is anticipated to supply greater than 8.2 million kilowatt hours of electrical energy per yr, sufficient to energy roughly 1,100 properties.

Utilized’s 2030 Scope 1, 2 and three emission discount targets have been validated by the Science Primarily based Targets initiative (SBTi). Utilized is collaborating carefully with its prospects, suppliers and companions to scale back the semiconductor trade’s carbon emissions. As an inaugural company sponsor of Schneider Electrical’s Catalyze program, Utilized is working alongside different main organizations to speed up entry to renewable vitality throughout the worldwide semiconductor worth chain. Utilized can be a founder and Governing Council member of the Semiconductor Local weather Consortium, a world, ecosystem-wide effort to decarbonize the semiconductor trade.

Utilized Supplies has been reporting on social duty and environmental issues since 2005. Utilized’s 2023 Sustainability Report and extra details about the corporate’s environmental actions and efforts to advance its tradition of inclusion and human rights initiatives can be found on the Stories and Insurance policies web page of our web site.

About Utilized Supplies
Utilized Supplies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT) is the chief in supplies engineering options used to supply just about each new chip and superior show on the planet. Our experience in modifying supplies at atomic ranges and on an industrial scale allows prospects to remodel prospects into actuality. At Utilized Supplies, our improvements make doable a greater future. Study extra at www.appliedmaterials.com.

*Supply: imec

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