Texas Instruments’ CEO and President Richard Templeton (pictured) has been named as the recipient of the 2007 SEMI Akira Inoue award for excellence in environmental, health and safety standards. The Akira Inoue award is named after the late past President of TEL, who implemented collaboration on EHS development in the semiconductor industry. 

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Intel Corporation is to become the top corporate purchaser of green power in the United States after the purchase of 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates (RECs), a trasnsaction that is being handled by Sterling Planet. 

A special evening discussion hosted by the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) will see “green” electronics manufacturing issues at the fore. Taking place in the San Francisco Marriott Hotel on February 3rd, the event will be co-chaired by AMI Semiconductor’s Jan Sevenhans and Infineon’s Rudolf Koch. 

Intel’s Ocotillo manufacturing and development Campus in Chandler, Arizona has won an award from the U.S. EPA regarding water reduction and recycling strategies. The Water Efficiency Leader (WEL) awards promote the efficient use of our water resources across America. 

Engineers at IBM’s Burlington, Vermont semiconductor facility have developed and introduced a novel process for pattern removal on wafers that significantly reduces the process costs and environmental waste. The new process is also currently being implemented at IBM's East Fishkill facility. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that Jazz Semiconductors of Newport Beach, California, has returned to being compliant with federal hazardous waste requirements, after an inspection in August 2005 identified problems with its air emissions standards for equipment and related procedures. 

National Semiconductor has reported that its Arlington, Texas fab has surpassed two million working hours without a lost time injury. According to National Semiconductor, less than 0.0002 percent of U.S. corporations have earned this distinction.