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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 has also helped protect the earth’s environment, and helped the overall value chain effectively reduce carbon emissions.

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 category Expense items 2020 2021 2022
New prevention/treatment equipment Air pollution prevention equipment 95,355 3,500 388,432
Water pollution treatment equipment 2,900 23,600 440,803
Operational and maintenance expenses for prevention equipment Air pollution prevention equipment 93,889 98,582 129,979
Water pollution treatment equipment 113,214 162,020 259,322
Waste processing expenses General industrial waste 34,558 33,839 40,390
Hazardous industrial waste 32,833 56,697 75,029
Total 372,749 378,238 1,333,955
Revenues (by entity) 39,649,875 57,532,802 51,139,171
Percentage of revenues (Total expenses/revenues) 0.94% 0.66% 2.61%

Economic Benefits from Environmental Investment

Unit: NTD Thousands

  Type 2020 2021 2022
Benefits Waste Recycling 8,100 6,008 6,324
Amount conserved Electricity conservation measures 170,500 189,780 329,639
Water Conservation Measures 7,512 10,594 9,180
Total economic benefits created 186,112 206,382 345,143

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