With sustainable development becoming an important issue in the world today, enterprises, as important social and economic forces, are increasingly concerned about the impact of carbon emissions generated from their offices and operations on climate change. Especially as an important production tool for enterprises, computers generate astonishing carbon emissions throughout their entire lifecycle, and their impact on social and economic green and low-carbon cannot be underestimated.
In response, Gao Yu, General Manager of Intel China's Technology Department, stated that sustainable development requires a dual wheel drive of greening and digitization. Intel is committed to being an innovative leader in the computer industry, choosing to start with commercial desktops and working with its ecological partner Tsinghua Tongfang to build green commercial computers based on Intel Core processors. By implanting green genes, Intel focuses on the sustainability of the entire computer lifecycle and achieving zero emissions. After more than a year of preparation, Tongfang Green Computers have been mass-produced and launched into the market, helping enterprises create low-carbon and green office environments and better application experiences, promoting sustainable development of various industries, and expanding new development space for the computer industry.
Implementing green computers to promote sustainable development in various industries
As a technology innovation oriented enterprise focused on building green and intelligent transportation, No.9 Company aims to connect the entire chain from product research and development to production and sales, and then to recycling, while providing users with high-quality products and services, to promote sustainable development with high standards. Therefore, the company chooses to use the same brand of green computers to meet the demand for high-performance, energy-saving, and low consumption computers.
Liu Miao, Chief Technology Officer of Company 9, stated that the company's R&D and office staff have very high requirements for computer performance, and they need to track and record the power consumption and carbon footprint of each computer. Tongfang Green Computers meet the needs of employees for high-performance and high computing power, ensuring high efficiency in research and development work. While its performance is not compromised, its green and environmentally friendly characteristics can effectively reduce carbon emissions, allowing enterprises to contribute to sustainable development by deepening the integration of digitalization and greening.
Liu Miao introduced that in the usage scenario, Tongfang Green Computers not only have the advantages of simple design and compact body, making deployment more convenient, but also lower energy consumption and lower noise, bringing users a new experience full of visibility. Wang Xianxian, a product engineer at Company 9, stated that Tongfang Green Computers have a green and low-carbon mode, with low operating noise. While saving energy and reducing consumption, they also bring a quieter office environment, making green and beautiful experiences more accessible.
Creating Green Computers to Create a New Development Track for the Computer Industry
It is understood that in recent years, Intel's implementation of the "cradle" to "cradle" concept of green computers and the realization of net zero emissions throughout the entire lifecycle has received considerable attention. It is considered an opportunity for the computer industry to break through and grow in today's rapidly changing market, as well as a new track for sustainable development. However, it is not easy to truly achieve successful implementation from concept to product.
Wang Yue, the product manager of Tongfang Computer Terminal, introduced that for most users, there are many categories of computer applications now, and performance is no longer the only factor in choosing a computer. While focusing on product performance, everyone pays more attention to the user experience brought by PCs in more segmented fields. Therefore, building a brand new green computer and achieving a balance between "green" and performance is indeed not an easy task.
To break through the bottleneck, Tsinghua Tongfang and Intel have worked closely together to carry out technological innovation and practical exploration around the concept of product lifecycle. Green control is carried out from four key links, and relying on multiple technological and design breakthroughs, a balance of product sustainability, performance, and cost has been achieved, achieving the implementation of the new concept of high energy and low carbon.
Achieve a balance between "green" and performance. Tongfang Green Computer adopts a brand new design, simplifying the production and manufacturing process, greatly reducing the motherboard area and components on the motherboard, effectively controlling production and raw material costs, and reducing carbon emissions from upstream sources; At the same time, relying on design optimization, the power supply size has been reduced by up to 70%, and the power supply efficiency has been significantly improved; In addition, by eliminating the commonly used fans in traditional computers, the noise has been reduced by 50%.
Promote sustainable manufacturing and delivery. Intel and Tsinghua Tongfang encourage component manufacturers, logistics, and others to adopt more clean energy, environmentally friendly materials, and green processes, and prioritize cooperation with green suppliers to drive green production in the upstream and downstream of the industry, making manufacturing, use, and delivery processes more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
Pay attention to usage scenarios and low-carbon effectiveness. Tongfang Green Computer adopts a customized low-carbon software solution - Intel Green Computer Software Control Center, which supports users to set their computers to low-carbon operating mode, and the operation and maintenance department implements unified deployment and energy efficiency management; It is also possible to dynamically switch power consumption modes through perception functions, promoting the use and maintenance of computers to remain low-carbon and green.
Recycling computers is also environmentally friendly. At the beginning of its design, Tongfang Green Computer considered the recycling process, making it easy to disassemble and classify plastic components from the casing to other parts. Especially with the adoption of Intel's newly developed recyclable boards, motherboards have achieved a recycling rate of over 90%, solving the global problem of electronic waste recycling such as computer motherboards, greatly reducing pollution and waste, and promoting more computer manufacturers to actively adopt environmentally friendly motherboard solutions.
In addition, Wang Yue also proposed that green computers promote innovation in computer development and production manufacturing models, achieving cost balance through structural optimization, reduction of component size and quantity, and promoting the creation of a new industrial model using a zero carbon approach.
Gao Yu believes that the implementation of green desktop computers is only the first step in green innovation. Intel will continuously innovate its products to promote and use green concepts in various computer forms, in order to more effectively help Qianxing Baiye implement sustainable development concepts in more fields such as office, production, and operation. Intel will continue to work with ecological partners, continuously explore new user needs, promote joint innovation, break through key technologies, and promote the formulation of standards for China's green computer industry, driving the computing industry to accelerate towards greenery, and using technology to further promote the implementation of the "dual carbon" strategy, making new contributions to sustainable and high-quality socio-economic development.