The Economic Times
The semiconductor industry has transformed the world. As the semiconductor industry greens itself, it has an important catalytic role to play as it contributes to the greening of other industries. For example, in automobile industry, the efficiency of hybrid cars becomes possible because of the role of semiconductors, MindTree chairman and managing director Ashok Soota said.
“But the market requires us to produce millions of products in every field. The solutions are use of clean energy, a huge improvement in power consumption and energy efficiency which will decide how products are designed,” Soota said.
While the semiconductor industry has a role to play, IT industry too has one. A study conducted by the Institute of Sustainable Communication (ISC), the energy consumed between data centres and servers has doubled between 2000 and 2005. This is projected to double again by 2010.
“We are committed to social responsibility and each one us has to play a part preserving the environment. We feel about conserving natural resources and employ environment-friendly mechanisms. Any approach you do for greening has to start from facilities,” Soota said.
The MindTree chairman said making energy-efficient products is not sufficient unless consumers do not know how to make the best use of the devices. Therefore, consumer education becomes a priority and manufacturers should consider it an important part of their design. The usage of hazardous products in electronics needs to be minimized and evolving methodologies and practices like recycling and reuse of the discarded material is the way ahead. “We need real efficient, environment-friendly technology which needs to be accelerated and reached to the mass production stage,” he concluded.
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