AMD’s 2008 Global Climate Protection Plan

 

AMD is pleased to present our eighth annual Global Climate Protection Plan which presents AMD’s strategy, goals, and commitment to continually reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to global climate protection efforts. The Plan integrates AMD’s efforts from product design and end performance, to manufacturing operations, the daily practices of AMD employees worldwide, and collaborative initiatives with our industry and government partners. 

The Plan presents our new commitment to reduce normalized greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent and normalized energy usage by 40 percent by 2010, relative to a 2006 baseline year.  We exceeded our previous commitment to a 40 percent reduction in normalized greenhouse gas emissions in our operations and a 30 percent reduction in normalized energy consumption by 2007 with a 2002 baseline. 

As an important step toward transparency in company reporting, AMD has begun to estimate “Scope 3” greenhouse gas emissions. AMD applies the elements of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol which include indirect emissions associated with supply chain, product distribution, employee business travel and commuting in the “Scope 3” category. With this initial disclosure, AMD is able to engage more directly with our supply chain on the appropriate metrics, goals, and strategies to limit the company’s end-to-end carbon footprint, as well as develop a more comprehensive view of the global environmental implications of our activities and business model.

Leading the World to energy-efficient computing

• In 2007, AMD further increased the energy efficiency of our server products by introducing the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors for servers and workstations, offering increased performance within the same power and thermal design as Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors. In September 2007, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor won a Best of VMworld Award in the Green Computing category, with the judges noting the power-saving features of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
  
  
• In 2008 AMD continued to extend the choice of energy efficient desktop processors.  In March 2008 AMD introduced the AMD Phenom™ series of triple-core processors, following the launch of the AMD Phenom series of quad-core processors in November 2007.  The AMD Phenom processors family includes the world’s first quad-core desktop processor operating at a maximum of 65 watts, the AMD Phenom X4 9100e processor.
  
  
• AMD just launched its 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. Previously codenamed “Shanghai”, these processors deliver up to 35% more performance than the previous generation Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor and up to a 35% decrease in power consumption at idle, along with sweeping virtualization performance leadership.

 

Commitment to Sustainable Manufacturing

• Fab 30 and Fab 36, AMD’s wafer fabrication operations in Dresden, Germany, are powered by the highly efficient trigeneration Energy Centers, EVC1 and EVC2. As AMD proceeds to convert the 200 mm Fab 30 to the 300 mm Fab 38, EVC1 has been upgraded to achieve a thermal efficiency of approximately 80 percent, an improvement of more than 10 percent, while EVC2 achieves efficiencies of almost 84 percent.
  
  
• The Dresden Fabs have very low emissions of perfluorocompounds (PFCs), which enabled AMD to reduce its absolute PFC emissions by more than 95 percent below 1995 levels.
  
  
• In 2007, AMD’s manufacturing operations in Dresden; Singapore; Penang, Malaysia; and Suzhou, China continued to make energy efficiency improvements, contributing to a 20 percent worldwide reduction in AMD's normalized energy consumption relative to the 2006 baseline.
  
  
• AMD’s established commitment to energy efficiency and environmental stewardship in manufacturing operations is demonstrated in the conceptual design for the planned state-of-the-art wafer fabrication facility at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Saratoga County, New York.  In October 2008, AMD and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi announced the creation of a U.S.-headquartered, leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company to address the demand for independent, leading-edge foundry production capabilities.  The new global company, temporarily called “The Foundry Company”, will serve this need by combining advanced process technology, industry-leading manufacturing facilities and aggressive plans to expand its global capacity footprint and plans to build upon the successful track record of AMD www.amd.com/corporateresponsibility and their award-winning manufacturing operations.

Green Building and Employee Initiatives and Programs

• The 2008 GCPP also discusses AMD’s new Austin “Lone Star” campus, which extends AMD’s leadership in energy efficient products and manufacturing into sustainable building. Completed in 2008 and designed to achieve LEED^® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification, the new site reduces energy use by approximately 20 percent over a traditional building of comparable size, and is powered 100 percent by clean, renewable energy sources such as wind power and biogas from Austin Energy’s GreenChoice® program.
  
  
• AMD also recognizes that employees play a critical role in helping the company be truly sustainable. In 2007, AMD renewed its commitment to education programs that empower employees to help improve their daily lives while decreasing adverse impacts on the global climate. These include using public transportation, carpooling, insulating homes, and turning off lights and computer monitors when they are not in use.

For more information on AMD’s Global Climate Protection Plan and to view the full report, please visit: www.amd.com/climate or contact Heather O’Cleirigh.