Program of the Chiptainability Online Seminar 2026
The online seminar starts at 16:00 (CET) sharp. Each seminar talk runs from 16:00 to 17:00 and includes an interactive discussion session. The link to the online room will be sent to registered participants.
- Title: "Chiptainability: Introduction and Trends"
- Speaker: Stefan Wunderer (Nokia)
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- Title: "Chiptainability Starts in the Fab: Quantifying Manufacturing Carbon with EcoInsights"
- Speaker: Stephen Russel (Techinsights)
- Abstract: Semiconductor manufacturing emissions are often the blind spot that breaks sustainability claims in ICT. Two chips with identical specifications can carry very different cradle-to-gate footprints depending on fab location, electricity mix, process-gas management, abatement effectiveness, and yield. For chiptainability and Green ICT, this means that optimizing runtime energy alone can misrank design and supply-chain choices.
This talk introduces TechInsights EcoInsights as an enabling layer for decision-grade carbon intelligence, with a technical deep dive on the Manufacturing Carbon Module. We will unpack what makes manufacturing carbon hard to quantify and compare, including boundary-setting, allocation, traceability across process steps and facilities, and uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. Using a worked scenario narrative with illustrative values, we will walk through the module workflow at a high level: the inputs required to model a manufacturing scenario, the outputs that identify hotspots and scope drivers, and the decisions this supports across design tradeoffs, fab selection, and packaging strategy. We will close with common pitfalls, practical mitigation strategies, and discussion prompts for researchers, students, and industry participants on how to integrate manufacturing carbon into chip and system-level optimization.
- Title: "How green is a chip? Factors influencing the carbon footprint of a semiconductor"
- Speaker: Richard Willems (Swissbit)
- Abstract: Semiconductors power virtually every aspect of modern life — but as demand scales, a critical question arises: how green is a chip, really? This talk takes a holistic view of the carbon footprint of semiconductors, tracing the full journey from raw material extraction through wafer fabrication, advanced packaging, system deployment, and end-of-life disposal. No single stage tells the full story. Key factors explored include the energy intensity of leading-edge process nodes, the carbon cost of increasing integration complexity, the role of fab location and renewable energy access, and how use-phase efficiency interacts with fabrication-phase emissions over a product's lifetime. The talk also addresses a fundamental tension: shrinking nodes improve performance-per-watt, but at the cost of greater process complexity and resource consumption. True sustainability requires rethinking not just how chips are made, but how long they last, how they are used, and how the industry measures its environmental impact — making carbon literacy an essential competency across the entire semiconductor ecosystem.
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