From TSMC to Samsung, Asia’s chipmakers struggle to go green

Insufficient access to renewable energy in their home markets has left Asia’s biggest chipmakers lagging behind their US and European rivals in the race to cut carbon emissions.

Making chips, especially cutting-edge ones, is extremely energy intensive. But Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, and Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest memory-chip manufacturer, are struggling to shrink their domestic carbon footprints.