Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson is putting the resources of the semiconductor industry’s chief supplier where chipmakers’ heads ought to be. Most impressive is the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s commitment to renewable energy. That’s a critical first step toward reducing the semiconductor industry’s carbon footprint.
Meanwhile, Applied Materials is rolling out new sustainability tools such as a wafer manufacturing platform called Vistara that emphasizes sustainable manufacturing by reducing energy and materials consumption.
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In our Dig Deeper Podcast Series conversation with Dickerson, the sustainability evangelist makes it clear that chipmakers must begin the challenge by initiating a process of fundamentally changing their operations. As Dickerson notes, fab giants cannot continue consuming the energy required to run small cities as they crank out 50,000 monthly wafers starts.
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