Becoming the leading sustainable foundry

On May 7, 2024, Intel published its annual Corporate Responsibility Report. The content below is a letter from Intel's CPO that is a part of the report. Find the full report here.

I am pleased to present our 2023—2024 Corporate Responsibility Report, which highlights our exemplary progress as we endeavor to be the leading sustainable foundry.

Leveraging our scale to drive sustainability across the industry:

Through RISE, our corporate responsibility strategy, we strive to set the standard for sustainable manufacturing. We’ve implemented ambitious environmental targets, including maximizing renewable electricity use, conserving water, upcycling waste, and advancing greener chemistries to minimize hazardous substances. Our commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability is deeply ingrained in Intel’s DNA, and we will continue our longstanding efforts to reduce our footprint, even as we expand our global operations.

Beyond our direct impact, our scale and reach uniquely allow us to play an influential role in collaborating to take meaningful action and achieve far-reaching sustainability goals. Intel approaches this lofty task in a way that makes it easier for customers, stakeholders, and our entire value chain to take meaningful action too.

Educating the talent pipeline for a sustainable and responsible future:

Intel’s more than 120,000 employees are shaping the future with technology innovation. Our technology powers, connects, and secures billions of devices; accelerates critical infrastructure; and enables solutions for the world’s most complex challenges.

We remain committed to attracting and retaining the world’s best talent across every function—from the factory floors to the engineers at the forefront of the next technological revolution. We are a catalyst, driving innovative talent strategies to accelerate workforce representation to create an inclusive environment for the world’s best and brightest talent.

Shared commitment and meaningful action are at the heart of our education and development efforts, designed to ignite interest and empower people with the skills to fuel their careers. Intel has already begun to lay the foundation for this work through the Intel® Digital Readiness Programs for community colleges in the US. Recently, we added AI for Sustainability and AI for Manufacturing standalone courses to the overall curriculum to further emphasize these priorities.

Looking toward our vision of collective impact:

As we look ahead, our ambitions and opportunities have never been greater to unleash the power of data to help advance integrated corporate responsibility strategies. We believe in a sustainable future for—and through—AI. We welcome collaboration on responsible and sustainable AI across the ecosystem through cross-industry initiatives to address these shared challenges.

At Intel, we are unwavering in our commitment. Together, we seek to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive outcomes in our workplace, in the communities in which we operate, in the semiconductor industry, and across society at large.