Press release
AMD 2023-24 Corporate Responsibility Report: Advancing Sustainability, Collaboration and Inclusion
AMD reduces carbon emissions, deepens industry collaboration and strengthens employee development programs to achieve strategic corporate responsibility goals
About this update from Advanced Micro Devices Inc
[{"type":"text","content":"AMD reduces carbon emissions, deepens industry collaboration and strengthens employee development programs to achieve strategic corporate responsibility goals\nSANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) published its annual Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report, detailing progress toward its strategic Corporate Responsibility goals in 2023. AMD focuses its efforts on key issues that have the greatest impact on its business and society, determined through an ESG materiality assessment1, including environmental sustainability; digital impact; diversity, belonging and inclusion; and supply chain responsibility. “We are in the midst of a major inflection point in the computing industry, and it is more important than ever to put our values into action and align our efforts with some of the biggest challenges facing our world, including addressing climate change and energy demand, enabling advancements in science and medicine, and respecting human rights,” said Justin Murrill, director of Corporate Responsibility at AMD. “At AMD, we continue to deepen collaboration with partners and peers to address these important issues and responsibly drive our industry forward.” Key highlights from 2023 include:Advancing Environmental Sustainability Through a holistic approach to chip design centered on performance and energy efficiency, AMD delivers a broad range of compute engines for end-to-end AI infrastructure. Innovations like the chiplet architecture AMD pioneered can address sustainability challenges during product use as well as in the manufacturing process. For instance, producing 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs with up to 12 separate compute chiplets instead of one monolithic die saved ~132,000 metric tons of CO2e in 2023 through avoidance of wafers manufactured, 2.8x the annual operational CO2e footprint of AMD in 2023, and 4.9x the water use of AMD operations in 20232. AMD also continues to make progress on its goal to deliver 30x energy efficiency improvement for processors and accelerators powering servers for HPC and AI training from 2020 to 2025, and AMD solutions power more than half of the top 50 most energy efficient supercomputers on the latest Green500 list.AMD designs AI and high-performance computing to help customers and partners tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges while achieving thei...