More-Sustainable Products: Our Action Impact Your Goals
We’re innovating on all fronts—hardware, software, services, and tools—to improve energy efficiency and extend product life, helping to reduce the carbon footprint of everyone in our sphere.
Leading with Innovations in Energy Efficiency
Our purpose is to create world-changing technology that improves the lives of every person on the planet. Driving to the lowest possible environmental footprint while increasing the energy efficiency and lowering the total carbon footprint of our products and platforms is a vital way to fulfill that purpose.
As part of this commitment, we’ve set a goal to increase product energy efficiency 10x for Intel® client and server microprocessors by 2030.1 Each new generation of our products is designed to deliver higher performance and use less energy.
More-Sustainable Products and Services from PC to Edge to Cloud
We are dedicated to reducing the total carbon footprint of our products and platforms and to creating a more sustainable computing industry through innovation and collaboration.
Improving Data Center Efficiency
We’re helping businesses reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 75 percent2 by optimizing the power of our processors’ performance per watt and implementing carbon-aware software solutions. Our industry-wide collaborations are leading to energy-saving innovations across the data center, such as our work with the Open Compute Project to advance scaling of liquid and immersion cooling.
Optimizing CPU Resources with Software, Tools, and Services
We’re enabling businesses to get the most out of their hardware investments by incorporating software solutions that can dynamically match CPU power consumption to traffic to deliver power savings, tools that allow for added power and carbon-tracking capabilities, and services that improve performance and efficiency to reduce overall energy use.
Reducing the Carbon Footprint across the PC Life Cycle
We’re working with PC makers to build more-sustainable devices by providing more eco-friendly reference designs with fewer components, low-power hardware, and board optimizations.
Enabling End-to-End Network Sustainability
Through 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® vRAN Boost, we’re helping communications service providers (CoSPs) build and scale cloud-native, fully virtualized networks to reduce TCO, increase power efficiency, and intelligently manage power consumption.
Driving More-Sustainable Outcomes at the Edge
Innovative, Intel-powered Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are helping to bring increased automation and energy efficiency to the edge, unlocking entirely new ways to optimize energy usage across industries such as retail, agriculture, transportation, and healthcare. For instance, AI-enabled IoT devices in factories and offices monitor and adjust energy consumption in real time to reduce waste and save costs. Smart robotics on the production line speed production, improve adaptability, and increase efficiency.
Sustainable by Design: Accelerating Sustainability Progress with Intel® Products
Our holistic approach across products, platforms, software, and solutions is helping to advance sustainable computing and enable our customers to accelerate their sustainability journeys.
Learn how our portfolio is designed to deliver performance and efficiency and how our circularity efforts help minimize Intel’s environmental impact.
Improving Sustainability Outcomes with Innovative Hardware Solutions
Intel® hardware offers higher performance and improved energy efficiency, helping to reduce overall carbon emissions while meeting the needs of the most-demanding workloads from the cloud to the network edge. Built-in AI telemetry and power management features can help make the most of CPU resources and reduce server count, power consumption, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
Built-in accelerators in our 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors deliver efficiency improvements of up to 2.9x performance per watt on average.3 Integrated telemetry capabilities help to enable energy savings at scale, while Optimized Power Mode can deliver up to 20 percent4 socket power savings with minimal impact to performance for select workloads.
13th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors
Delivering a 60 percent increase in energy efficiency compared to previous generations, 13th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors are designed to lead to higher performance per watt in personal computing platforms. Faster wake from Modern Standby state replaces legacy system sleep and idle states for even more power savings.
Habana® Gaudi®2
Built on the same high-efficiency architecture as first-generation Habana® Gaudi®, Habana® Gaudi®2 brings a new level of performance and efficiency to large-scale AI workloads. Gaudi®2 has also demonstrated power efficiency when running a popular computer vision workload on a Gaudi®2 server, showing a 1.8x advantage in throughput per watt over a comparable NVIDIA A100 Server.5
Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series
Designed to supercharge the Intel® Xeon® architecture with high-bandwidth memory (HMB), Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series processors deliver up to 4.8x better performance compared to the competition on real-world high performance computing (HPC) workloads and 68 percent less power usage than an AMD Milan-X cluster for the same high performance, as measured by High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) benchmark, a tool for ranking HPC systems.6
Intel Atom® C Processor Series
The Intel Atom® C processor family delivers efficient intelligence and reduced energy demands for a variety of workloads at the network edge. Integrating built-in Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT), Intel Atom® C processors help optimize power for networking and security appliances, freeing up CPU resources for other work.
Neuromorphic Computing: Unlocking Next-Level Efficiency
Neuromorphic computing offers exponential energy efficiency benefits for complex applications. The Intel® neuromorphic research chip, Loihi 2, helps bring neuromorphic computing’s sustainability benefits to real-world applications. For example, when used for combinatorial optimization, Loihi 2 could use up to 2,800x less energy than a CPU.7 This capability could be applied to sustainably solve problems in finance, logistics, and telecommunications. Loihi 2 typically operates on less than 1W of power compared to the hundreds of watts used by server CPUs and GPUs.8 Through the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC), Intel is bringing together academic, government, and industry teams to advance neuromorphic technology from research prototypes to industry-leading products that will power more-sustainable computing in the future.
Accelerating Sustainability Efforts with Software and Tools
Intel® software innovation is enabling businesses to optimize use and increase energy efficiency. Advancements such as AI telemetry, power management tools, and programmable networks enable smarter products that adapt their energy use to workloads. We also offer tools and services that collect data in near-real time to help quantify impact and identify future sustainability opportunities.
Intel® Granulate™
Optimize cloud workloads to improve application efficiency with continuous, autonomous workload optimization software. Granulate enables up to 21 percent8 instance reduction, helping businesses save energy and reduce their fleet size—all while calculating cost and carbon savings in real time.
Intel® Adaptix™ Technology
Our software toolkit for Intel® processor-based platforms can help reduce energy use by up to 20 percent9 through performance optimizers, including advanced power control settings and machine learning intelligence that predicts workload needs and makes dynamic adjustments.
Energy-Saving Kubernetes Tools
Intel-enabled Kubernetes tools include integrated energy-saving capabilities. Telemetry Aware Scheduling (TAS) makes telemetry data available when scheduling resources in Kubernetes, and Power Manager provides a more adaptive power-tuning model, helping to optimize available CPU resources to reduce power.
Intel® Infrastructure Power Manager for 5G Core
Using dynamic power management, Intel® Intelligent Power Manager for 5G core software running on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can enable CoSPs to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions by delivering an average power savings of 30 percent while maintaining key telco performance metrics.10
Reducing the Carbon Footprint across the Entire PC Life Cycle
From build to retire, PCs built on Intel® platforms deliver built-in sustainability benefits to businesses while delivering professional-grade performance. Intel® platforms and integrated technologies optimize operations, offer longer battery life, and are based on eco-friendly reference designs with fewer components. Remote management and repair features enable IT teams to take greater control of device energy management and create new opportunities to reuse and recycle products.
Intel vPro®
With built-in Intel® Dynamic Tuning to improve power efficiency and battery life, Intel vPro®-based OEM notebooks exceed ENERGY STAR 8.0 efficiency requirements by as much as 67.6 percent.11 Remote manageability and repair tools enable IT departments to avoid as many as 28 metric tons of CO2e emissions per year12 and securely erase user data from the entire device for easy recycling or reuse.
Intel® EVO™ Laptops
With an innovative design and high-efficiency components, Intel® Evo™ laptops deliver lower embodied energy and longer battery life and receive sustainable innovation points for meeting sustainability and social responsibility standards across the PC life cycle as defined in the global ecolabel EPEAT.
Investing in Circular Practices
We are committed to incorporating sustainability at every stage of the product life cycle. Our products are designed to reduce waste and conserve resources from creation and first use to reuse and disposal. Through circularity efforts in 2022, we upcycled (reused, recovered, or recycled) 67 percent of our manufacturing waste, or approximately 112,000 tons, and helped our supply chain ecosystem avoid 77,000 metric tons in total waste.1
Advancing Modular Design
To help extend the lifetime of data center servers and end user PCs, we advance modular architectures that enable you to easily replace individual components instead of the entire system, helping to reduce waste and provide climate and carbon benefits. We’re also working with the Open Compute Project (OCP) to advance industry standards that help scale modularity in server systems, and the first specification is available now.
Collaborating on Sustainable PC Design
We collaborate with ODMs and OEMs to reduce the carbon footprint in end user PCs by targeting key areas across the product life cycle, such as creating reference designs that reduce the motherboard footprint and selecting sustainable materials during manufacturing. We also use low-temperature soldering, a new technology that helps decrease the temperature and, therefore, the amount of energy needed to mount components on the printed circuit board (PCB).
Designing Sustainable Packaging
By using renewable and bio-based materials from responsible sources, our product packaging is designed to be easy to recycle.
Explore How We’re Making Real World Impact
Intel and KDDI Collaborate to Drive Sustainable Immersion Cooling Data Center Solutions
Read the successful results of a proof of concept using the Intel® innovative immersion cooling reference design to reduce data center energy use and carbon footprint.
Enabling a 100 Percent Renewable HPC Infrastructure
Discover how Responsible Compute is helping customers cut costs and their carbon footprint with access to a world-class HPC infrastructure built on Intel® and Lenovo technology.
Intel is committed to the continued development of more- sustainable products, processes, and supply chains as we strive to prioritize greenhouse gas reduction and improve our global environmental impact. Where applicable, environmental attributes of a product family or specific SKU will be stated with specificity. Refer to the 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report (p. 64) for further information.