Displays
Innovations that can decarbonize displays or components that support them across initial design, manufacturing, customer usage, and recycling.
Printed Circuit Boards and Assemblies (PCBs and PCBAs)
Innovations for PCBs and PCBAs that can increase material usage efficiency and waste reduction such as biodegradable PCBs and additive manufacturing processes.
Low carbon materials
Innovations that significantly reduce carbon emissions in device components, plastics (PC and PC/ABS), textiles, and packaging materials, with a focus on more sustainable alternatives to styrofoam and other high-impact packaging materials. Examples include more sustainable polymers, recycled materials, bio-based alternatives, and low-carbon manufacturing processes.
Semiconductors
Innovations that help reduce the environmental impact of semiconductor manufacturing, including energy-efficient fabrication processes, more sustainable materials for chip production, and technologies that can increase lifetime and enable reuse or minimize water usage, chemical waste, and emissions from semiconductor facilities.
Device batteries
Innovations for Amazon device batteries that can increase recycled content, promote efficiency, extend battery life, and/or reduce their manufacturing footprint.
Energy efficiency
Innovations that can reduce energy needs of displays, cameras, and speakers. Examples are sensors, microphones, networking equipment, and other components impacting power consumption.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI innovations that can unlock new pathways to optimize product life cycle energy consumption and product carbon footprint. Examples include identifying alternative design and manufacturing techniques, enabling more energy-efficient product use, improving data collection and lifecycle assessment (LCA) for emissions measurement, extending hardware lifetime, and enhancing circularity through repairability, recyclability, and reuse.
