Most of AMD’s energy usage is in the form of electricity, with a smaller portion coming from on-site fuel burning, steam, and cooling and heating water lines. Fossil fuel extraction and the generation of electricity both impact the environment. Because of that, we continually look for opportunities to decrease the amount of energy consumed, as well as to use energy from more efficient sources.

Energy Conservation Goal Reduce energy use (as measured by kilowatt-hours / Manufacturing Index) by 30% by 2007 relative to a baseline year of 2002

Although AMD surpassed its 2007 energy use reduction goal in 2004, it will be a challenge to maintain this efficiency with the launch of Fab 36, AMD’s first 300 millimeter wafer fabrication facility located in Dresden which began full scale production in 2006. Much of the normalized energy efficiency improvement from 2003 to 2004 was due to production increases in Fab 25 and Fab 30.

Energy Conservation Projects

Engineers at AMD sites worldwide have executed dozens of projects that improve energy efficiency. Since 1998, engineers in Sunnyvale, Austin, and Dresden alone completed more that 40 energy conservation projects, including:

• Idling of air handlers in administrative areas during low occupancy periods in Dresden (~9.3 GWh/yr),
• Replacement of a large electrical in-coming air heater with a more efficient heat transfer fluid system in Dresden (~2.8 GWh/yr),
• Upgrade of old chillers with a more efficient system in Sunnyvale (~2.1 GWh/yr).

Energy Sources

• All AMD Austin operations for the next ten years will be powered by green energy derived from renewable resources. This agreement with the Austin Energy GreenChoice^® program was announced on October 24, 2005, and will include the new AMD Austin Campus which is expected to be operational in 2007. AMD was the first member of the semiconductor industry to join the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership, and was listed as the 15th largest U.S. purchaser of renewable energy as of March 20, 2006. AMD was one of the first companies in Austin to purchase green power through the Austin Energy GreenChoice® Program, and has subscribed to all four batches of green energy offered since the program was launched in 2000.
• At AMD Dresden’s Fab 30 and Fab 36, cogeneration plants have been designed to meet all electricity, heating and cooling needs. These cogeneration plants are fueled by natural gas, the least carbon-intensive fossil fuel available, and use waste heat from electricity production in the cogeneration system to generate heat and cooling. As a result, the plants operate at total energy efficiencies in the 70% range, which is much higher than that of conventional energy supply systems which typically demonstrate efficiencies in the 30% range.