EPA & Intel—Advancing Sustainability

Energy costs are escalating around the world and society as a whole is becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of energy consumption. In response to these challenges, Intel began working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to proactively address our industry's impact on global climate change and help support a sustainable future.

Maximizing energy efficiency

As demand for computing performance increases, so does the need for more energy-efficient platforms. In addition to working with the EPA to develop the latest ENERGY STAR¹ computer specifications, we also helped author a new implementation design guide to help system manufacturers deliver ENERGY STAR version 4.0 compliant systems based on Intel® technologies.

These PCs deliver extraordinary energy-efficiency without compromise to performance by enabling:

• Greater power savings and lowered costs for enterprise computing
• Extended battery life for laptop PCs
• New form factors for home, office, datacenter, and mobile PCs
• Quieter desktop PCs and workstations for home and office

• Discover how to best meet ENERGY STAR version 4.0 required power levels (PDF 1.46MB)
• Review the ENERGY STAR version 4.0 specifications
• Visit the ENERGY STAR website

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

By joining the EPA's Climate Leaders program Intel is helping to reduce environmental impact while remaining focused on today's performance demands. By designing for energy-efficient performance, we're helping to develop platforms that can support high-end applications without dramatically increasing energy consumption and we're delivering technologies that can:

• Efficiently manage component power use by only utilizing those that are needed
• Improve performance and efficiency by accessing data in the cache independently per execution core
• Help dramatically decrease footprint and power demands with Intel® 45nm Hi-k silicon technology that employs more, smaller transistors made from revolutionary new materials
• Reduce impact to the environment with next-generation lead-free and halogen-free 45nm Hi-K Intel® Core™ microarchitecture

For more than a decade, Intel has been addressing environmental impact by reducing our emissions of perfluorocompounds (PFCs) and by improving the energy efficiency of our operations and products. Partners in the Climate Leaders program set aggressive greenhouse gas reduction goals and inventory emissions to measure progress. Participation in the program reinforces Intel's commitment to developing long-term and comprehensive climate change strategies.

• For more information visit the EPA's Climate Leaders website