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Green Product

Winbond has integrated our core innovative technology competencies with sustainable energy conservation and carbon reduction goals. Through green product design, digitalizing information systems, and improving production efficiency, Winbond can develop and optimize our products in various different areas, strictly controlling each step of our product process. Winbond promises to deliver the highest quality products to customers, minimizing the carbon emissions required to deliver our products into the hands of customers and consumers. While benefiting from the convenience brought about by technology, Winbond is lowing the impact to environment and helping the overall value chain effectively reducing carbon emissions.

SDGs 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDGs 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

The accumulated granted patents have exceeded

4500

1.2V NOR Flash, compared with 1.8V NOR Flash, the total power consumption is reduced by

45

%

Completed ISO 14067 carbon footprint inventory for IC products

ISO 14067

Green Manufacturing

Green Manufacturing

Winbond has remained committed to green manufacturing principles. Winbond has included reducing carbon emissions as an important goal, and have implemented measures to do so starting from the research and development phase. Through methods such as optimizing our production processes and adopting zero carbon emissions gases, Winbond hopes to become a model for promoting green products, relying on our core competencies to create a green impact. In 2022, Winbond invested NT$1.334 billion into implementing environmental protection measures, and have continued to invest into reducing the environmental impact caused by our business operations. Compared to 2021, Winbond has invested 253% more funding into these efforts, with this increase mainly due to the many pollution prevention/treatment facilities built for our new Kaohsiung Fab. Winbond has continued to reduce the environmental impact caused by our operations, and the economic benefits brought about by the environmental protection investments above have totaled NT$36 million.

Environmental Investment Amount

Unit: NTD Thousands

Expense categoryExpense items202020212022
New prevention/treatment equipmentAir pollution prevention equipment95,3553,500388,432
Water pollution treatment equipment2,90023,600440,803
Operational and maintenance expenses for prevention equipmentAir pollution prevention equipment93,88998,582129,979
Water pollution treatment equipment113,214162,020259,322
Waste processing expensesGeneral industrial waste34,55833,83940,390
Hazardous industrial waste32,83356,69775,029
Total372,749378,2381,333,955
Revenues (by entity)39,649,87557,532,80251,139,171
Percentage of revenues (Total expenses/revenues)0.94%0.66%2.61%

Economic Benefits from Environmental Investment

Unit: NTD Thousands

 Type202020212022
BenefitsWaste Recycling8,1006,0086,324
Amount conservedElectricity conservation measures170,500189,780329,639
Water Conservation Measures7,51210,5949,180
Total economic benefits created186,112206,382345,143

Smart Manufacturing Prognostic and Health Management (PHM)

By using PHM for smart health monitoring of the production process, Winbond is able to discover and repair damage to the electrostatic chuck (ESC) early before serious damage occurs, effectively reducing ESC usage costs, and reducing the number of wafers that need to be discarded due to ESC damage. In 2022, our ESC usage costs were lower by 13% compared to 2021. Winbond also discarded 55% less wafers, a major improvement.

ESC Usage

Scrape Wafer due to ESC Fall