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What does it cost the planet to manufacture a single chip? Pick a chip below and see the water, energy, and emissions behind every transistor — every number backed by a cited source.

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300mm wafer

1010 candidate dies · yield 80%

AMD Zen 4 CCD (EPYC Genoa / Ryzen 7000)

AMD (manufactured by TSMC)

N566.3 mm² die~81 masks957 process steps808 good dies/wafer80% yield

A small chiplet die — AMD deliberately chose this strategy to improve yield on advanced nodes. A full EPYC Genoa package contains up to 12 CCDs plus a 397 mm^2 I/O die on N6 (the I/O die's separate footprint is not counted here).

Water
6.6L

= 13 bottles of water (500 mL)

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Energy
2.0kWh

= 1.3 hours of running an AC

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GHG Emissions
1.5kg CO₂e

= 6.9 km of driving a car

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F-gas / PFAS
0.61kg CO₂e

= 2.9 km of driving a car

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Process Breakdown (per die)
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