Samsung Electronics Achieves Verification of Life Cycle Assessment of Carbon Footprint of Semiconductor Products – Samsung Newsroom Korea

Share the environmental impact of chips manufactured at Samsung’s global operations to accelerate B2B customers’ carbon neutral goals

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it has established a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for its semiconductor business’ product carbon footprint and has obtained validation from DNV, one of the world’s leading independent certification bodies.

LCA is a methodology for assessing the environmental impact throughout the lifecycle of a commercial product, process or service by quantifying energy, material and waste emissions. For the carbon footprint of semiconductors in detail, Samsung’s LCA covers raw material extraction from chip manufacturing, assembly, and testing. The result is reliability and transparency according to ISO 14040, ISO 14044 and ISO 14067.

The carbon footprint is commonly used by Samsung and its customers to recognize the environmental impact of Samsung Semiconductor products at every stage, and can be used as a metric to track and reduce carbon emissions.

“Since 2019, we have been actively mobilizing efforts to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of our core memory and logic solutions,” said Dugen Song, vice president of Samsung Electronics’ Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Center. “By leveraging LCA, we can not only help our customers achieve carbon neutrality, but also become more transparent about the environmental impact of the semiconductors we produce around the world.”

“As a global expert in energy and environmental certification, DNV is delighted to partner with Samsung and congratulates Samsung on successfully establishing a reliable LCA. “We will continue to participate in creating a more sustainable environment together with global business leaders such as Samsung.”

Since 2019, 37 of Samsung’s semiconductor products have received carbon footprint certification from Carbon Trust and UL, and six memory products have received carbon reduction certification from Carbon Trust. Samsung’s green product portfolio includes DRAM, SSD, embedded storage, mobile SoC, mobile image sensor, and automotive LED packages.

Samsung will use the LCA it established late last year to quantify the carbon footprint of chips manufactured at manufacturing, testing and assembly locations around the world in South Korea, China and the United States.

With sustainability at its core, Samsung will expand the LCA to provide a more comprehensive assessment of ultimately reducing the environmental impact of various applications such as mobile and wearables, data centers, consumer electronics, automotive, telecommunications and more, including water and resource footprints. is. .