A short interview about semiconductor manufacturing and the climate emergency. The audio is here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-47-on-the-go/clip/16064904-semiconductors-climate-change The[…]
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"The electronics sector is so symbolic of what’s going on in the world. It’s a very narrow aperture that allows you to see a very broad field of problems." See Tech's Toll.
$6.6 billion in public money for tsmc: what about the water?
Fortune picks up the story on the CHIPS Act, semiconductor manufacturing, water stress, and the climate emergency: “But in Phoenix, where the factories are going to be built, TSMC faces a lingering question: Where’s the […]
Climate change puts global semiconductor manufacturing at risk.
Can the industry cope? Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of microchips. These technological marvels are in everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to cars, trains and planes, not to mention […]
New Data set Available: Global semiconductor manufacturing locations
The data set provides unique latitude and longitude coordinates for 1,393 semiconductor manufacturing facilities. For full details, see: Lepawsky, Josh. 2024. ‘Climate Change Induced Water Stress and Future Semiconductor Supply Chain Risk’. iScience, January, 108791. […]
Video Talk: scale, magnitude, and action
This is a short talk I gave for an invitation to the Prada Frames “Materials in Flux” symposium.
Video Talk: Climate Change Induced Water Stress and Future Semiconductor Supply Chain Risk
The fourth installment of the ELECTRONICS – ECOLOGIES series, MANUFACTURING, was held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on Monday 4 December 2023. You can view the article discussed in this presentation via: Lepawsky, Josh. […]
No Electronics without semiconductors and no semiconductors without water
Without semiconductors there are no electronics and without sufficient water, there are no semiconductors. New research published in iScience provides a global analysis of semiconductor manufacturing locations and the projected future water stress they are […]