Packaging + Carbon Module
A Cradle-to-Gate Tool for Assessing Carbon Impact
The Packaging+ Carbon Module is an industry first and enables users, in just a few seconds, to calculate the packaging carbon impact of an integrated circuit (IC) product from cradle-to-gate.
The Packaging+ Carbon Module gives IC designers, IDMs, and product manufacturers the data and tools they need to make informed decisions about product designs and component-level carbon impacts.
Data and calculations available include:
- Standardized and repeatable semiconductor carbon emissions reporting for integrated circuits, including packaging
- Single click cradle-to-gate reporting for more than 29,000 IC products analyzed and inventoried by TechInsights – across consumer, enterprise, and automotive applications
- Detailed die data, including emissions and individual die information (description, number, manufacturer, node category, function and size) for multi-chip products
- Comprehensive views of Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions generated from chip packaging, including 3D IC integration and system-on-a-chip (SoC)
- Data on more than seventy Scope 3 materials used in packaging
- Transportation carbon calculated automatically based on weight of materials used to manufacture and package the die(s), and shipping packaging
- Over 780 assembly processes covered, with 124+ pre-configured package types that can accommodate 11 unique die
This module works in concert with TechInsights’ Manufacturing Carbon Module and Carbon Analyzer Module to leverage TechInsights' industry-leading expertise in reverse engineering and semiconductor manufacturing processes. Our proprietary databases combined with in-depth analysis and expertise provide the industry’s most comprehensive and reliable data available.
A Single Product for Cradle-to-Gate Sustainability Insights
EcoInsights is a comprehensive solution designed to help semiconductor companies drive significant environmental progress. With EcoInsights, users can quickly calculate the carbon footprint of over 20,000 integrated circuits (ICs) with cradle-to-gate transparency. It provides detailed insights into emissions from die manufacturing, packaging, and transportation. By identifying areas for improvement, companies can make data-driven decisions to reduce their environmental impact.
This powerful suite offers three integrated modules that deliver the data and tools needed for informed sustainability choices.
The Manufacturing Carbon Module is the first of its kind to detail Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 carbon emissions by fab, location, wafer, and die. It combines equipment, processes, and manufacturing steps for Logic, DRAM, NAND, as well as select Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) processes, into a single model for over 225 fabs globally.
The Packaging+ Carbon Module lets you calculate the carbon footprint of almost 29,000 ICs with standardized calculations based on packaging type, die size, and other factors. Get detailed analysis of Scope 1 and 2 from die manufacturing and Scope 2 and 3 emissions from packaging to track the impact of your entire supply chain.
The Carbon Analyzer Module offers a product-level overview of all integrated circuits in a device and their carbon footprints, down to the packaged IC level. It simplifies benchmarking and comparing semiconductor products and manufacturers on key sustainability metrics by detailing their environmental impact at both the component and function levels.
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Packaging+ Carbon Module Opens Door to Innovative Designs
In this Module, users can run scenarios selecting from more than 29,000 IC products – across consumer, enterprise, and automotive applications - from TechInsights’ extensive databases of teardowns and reverse engineering analysis to easily provide credible data to support reporting, benchmarking, and competitive analysis. This Module currently includes 124 package types with more being added monthly. The dataset is inclusive of data from 2015 through to present. The scenarios created can be saved and used for comparison against similar or adjacent IC products.
Multichip Memory IC Product
The Packaging+ Carbon Module is part of TechInsights’ EcoInsights portfolio of Sustainability tools and insights. This Module seamlessly integrates with the Manufacturing Carbon Module and the BOM Database with Carbon Footprint, providing standardized and repeatable emissions reporting for integrated circuit products from raw materials to manufacturing to the assembly and test, and finally the transportation to deliver the parts to their destination.
Answering the Unknowns of the Carbon Impact of Chip Packaging
Whether you’re an IC designer, an integrated device manufacturer (IDM), a foundry, or a product manufacturer, the data provided by the Packaging+ Carbon Module can give you an edge in semiconductor carbon reporting. Key features include:
- Easy competitive analysis and benchmarking of carbon emissions at the IC product level
- Access to the carbon contribution of die vs. packaging vs. transportation
- Comprehensive view of Scope 2 assembly and test emissions
- Comparison of carbon emissions of the manufacturing location on an IC product's carbon footprint
- Data on more than 70 Scope 3 materials used in packaging
Multichip Memory IC Product
Looking at a multichip memory IC product, the majority of the CO2e comes from the manufacture of the die. Carbon by source varies significantly based on the number of die in the product, die size, number of die, die manufacturing tools and process, and package type. Source: TechInsights’ Packaging+ Carbon Module, 2024.
The Module provides IC product specific calculations of:
- Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 die emissions (manufacturing);
- Scope 2 and Scope 3 assembly emissions;
- Scope 2 test emissions;
- Scope 3 transportation emissions;
- Plus: assembly water consumption.
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Supporting Your Business in Its Sustainability Reporting
Covering more than 225 fabs, the TechInsights Manufacturing Carbon Module is a vital sustainability tool providing the detailed modeling and benchmarking that supports many areas of the semiconductor value chain, including:
- Capital Equipment vendors see value with the Module providing a critical business development tool to compare and benchmark tools versus the competition, while also being able to understand the abatement levers that help reduce emissions.
- Foundries can use the editable fields for scenario analysis; and facilitates understanding of abatement on carbon emissions and electricity consumption, as well as run competitor comparisons.
- Fabless Vendors gain a fact-based understanding of die size on carbon emissions, electricity consumption and water use. The Module also enables scenario analysis.
- Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) use the tool to support key design decisions and evaluate investment decisions for new equipment and tools.
- Product Manufacturers use the Manufacturing Carbon Module provides key inputs into cradle-to-grave analysis and reporting.
- Automotive Manufacturers use the Manufacturing Carbon Module to understand the carbon emissions associated with electronic components being used in vehicles, in conjunction with costing information from TechInsights’ Strategic Cost and Price Model.
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