Together with our customers, we’re building value through sustainable product innovation.
Microchips are getting smaller, more advanced, and more broadly used. We rely on them for our smartphones, our computers, and lifesaving medical equipment. They also power renewable energy solutions—such as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panel systems—that are critical for reducing global emissions.
Lam’s market-leading portfolio enables these technologies by helping to bring our customers’ big ideas to life. Now, we’re advancing the future of semiconductor innovation by targeting products that are more efficient, longer lasting, and more sustainable.
We approach product sustainability with four focuses:
Reducing energy consumption:
We’re looking for ways to automate our tools and processes to support reductions in energy use, GHG emissions, and costs.Reducing GHG emissions and improving air quality:
We’re identifying and capitalizing on opportunities to shift away from high-GWP chemistries to reduce emissions and the carbon footprint of our tools.Leveraging Equipment Intelligence® ECO sensors:
In our labs, our teams have deployed Equipment Intelligence ECO sensors to capture data on the environmental performance of our tools.Replacing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS):
We are working to identify where PFAS are present in our direct design choices and order-to-shelf supply chain and the practicable substitutes for replacement.
New Goal: Reduce Scope 3 emissions from use of sold products 63.8% per USD value added by 2034 from a 2022 base year
Goal: By the end of 2030, 83% of customers measured by emissions have SBTs
Unleashing the power of innovation for a better world
What we do
Lam products and services are a catalyst for progress. We enable:
- Computers and phones
that connect us - Electric vehicles that support
the transition to cleaner,
renewable energy sources - Smart cities that
operate efficiently and
improve quality of life - Critical medical devices
and technologies that
save lives - Energy efficient cloud
computing servers
How we do it
Our vast range of products and solutions include:
Deposition
- Metal Films
- Dielectric Films
- Film Treatment
Strip & Clean
- Wet Clean
- Dry Plasma Clean
Customer Support
- Service
- Spares
- Upgrades
- Reliant Systems™
- Training
Etch
- Conductor Etch
- Dielectric Etch
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Through-Silicon
Via (TSV) Etch - Selective Etch
Advanced Equipment and Process Control
- Mass Metrology
- Integration Modeling Software
Product efficiency and circularity
Product efficiency and sustainability go hand in hand
At Lam, we’re proving that it’s possible to maximize productivity while minimizing the use of raw materials, energy, and space. We’re optimizing our products and processes to be smarter and more efficient, in line with our company and customers’ business and sustainability goals.
These initiatives are critical to our net zero journey, as the largest portion of Lam’s emissions are generated through product use. Beyond building value for our customers through long-lasting, efficient product solutions, we’re engaging them to set and pursue science-based targets. Our approach includes:
Creating products that go further
Lam provides high-quality, low-defect consumable, and nonconsumable spare parts designed to increase circularity while balancing performance, availability, and cost. Our spares offerings leverage services including re-cleaning, repair, refurbishment, and re-coating. This enables the reuse of electrostatic chucks, radio frequency (RF) hardware, showerheads, and other high-value spare parts. By reusing these parts, we build added value into our products and reduce the environmental impacts of manufacturing new tools.
Reducing environmental impacts throughout the product lifecycle
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Design and development
- Semiverse® Solutions
- Sustainability requirements in product design phase
- Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy
- Equipment Intelligence® ECO sensors
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Upstream Distribution
- Co-locating warehouses and manufacturing
- Optimizing distribution logistics
- Implementing energy efficiency in warehouses
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Manufacturing
- Reducing energy use, water use, and waste generation in our facilities
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Downstream distribution
- Moving operations closer to customers
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Use
- Controlling peripherals via ECO Mode
- Improving thermal management
- Increasing component energy efficiency
- Identifying low-GWP gas alternatives
- Increasing throughput
Lifetime extension:
- Enhanced customer knowledge and technical expertise of our tools
- Customized service and software solutions
- High-quality, low-defect consumable and non-consumable spare parts Dextro™ cobot
- Technology and productivity upgrades
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Reuse
- Refurbishing customers’ obsolete tools into new tools
- Cleaning and reusing spare parts and refurbishing key components such as electrostatic chucks
The environmental potential of virtualization
The semiconductor industry has long depended on physical experimentation to achieve the precision needed for advanced chip manufacturing. However, this traditional method comes with environmental impacts—high energy consumption, material waste, and GHG emissions. Lam uses virtual technologies—such as augmented, virtual, and extended reality, supplemented with AI and machine learning—to reduce these impacts while delivering groundbreaking innovation.
Lam is exploring virtualization through Semiverse® Solutions, our portfolio of advanced software platforms to solve process modeling, design automation, and integration challenges. The business is showcasing the beginning of what could be a massive industry transformation toward research and development (R&D) through virtual twins—a virtual representation of a process or physical asset. Virtual twins allow designers and maintenance professionals to understand and predict how the process or asset behaves without requiring extensive physical prototypes or experiments. Everything from plasma dynamics to deposition and etch processes can be simulated.
This capability has the potential to help our customers meet some of their sustainability challenges by dramatically reducing the consumption of physical resources like silicon wafers, chemicals, and gases.
By tuning in to our customers’ needs, we’re helping them go further
Maintaining our customers’ trust is a top priority as we build sustainability into our products. Our customers are leaders in the semiconductor industry, and we take pride in delivering best-in-class solutions that support their success. Through close collaboration with our customers, we strive to continue to exceed their expectations and develop solutions that anticipate their long-term needs.
Learn more about our products and our approach to customer support:
Product quality & safety
Our focus on product quality and safety is fundamental to everything we do. With oversight from our cross-functional Quality Leadership team, Lam’s product design teams seek to ensure the products and services we provide are safe for their intended use and in compliance with market regulations and standards. We strive to take a systematic approach to continuously improve our products and quickly address adjustments that need to be made. Lam is also certified under ISO 9001:2015,1 an international standard that provides a framework for an effective quality management system.
Preventing, reporting, and addressing product safety concerns
As part of our product release process, all new products undergo safety certification testing. We document the results in a product safety report, commonly known as a SEMI S2. Our Logistics team provides safety data sheets for materials such as cleaning fluids and lubricants. Customers can enter into service agreements with Lam to ensure proper product maintenance, and we provide customer training on the safe use of our products, typically over the span of a week-long course.
When issues related to product safety or performance arise, we notify our customer base. We also have systems in place that allow our field-service personnel and customers to report safety issues to Lam. Our Product Safety team assesses these issues to verify the safety concern. If the issue is product-related, the Product Safety team will typically generate a safety problem report to address it. If the issue is behavioral, the Product Safety team will address the matter at the local level.
Promoting safety best practices on a larger scale
We further advance product safety best practices in our industry through collaboration with customers and industry peers. For instance, Lam helps lead the SEMI Equipment Suppliers group to address new product regulations impacting the industry. For more than two decades, Lam has worked with stakeholders to develop, implement, and continually improve the SEMI Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment. These standards are broadly used across the semiconductor industry and other industries to minimize hazards related to equipment, facilities, and work environments.
Engaging our industry
Lam is in the business of advancing technology. Sharing our expertise and being receptive to new perspectives and ideas sparks innovation and drives progress. Through our office of the chief technology and sustainability officer, we engage leading universities, researchers, and Lam’s global engineering community to collaborate on innovative solutions for the industry’s biggest challenges. Lam’s university collaborations fulfill two goals: The research fuels Lam’s technology pipeline, while the participating students fuel Lam’s talent pipeline and spark creative approaches to industry challenges.

University Collaboration Showcase
Lam’s University Collaboration Showcase brings Lam employees together to share results from our university research collaborations.
Lam Capital Venture Competition
Lam hosts the Lam Capital Venture Competition, a bi-annual event to scout for emerging startups that could solve critical challenges or pry open new markets. The event is the industry’s only competition with a funding prize for semiconductor startups, and it exposes Lam to investment opportunities in startups that can help us remain at the vanguard of semiconductor technology.
Caution regarding forward-looking statements
Statements made on our Company webpage that are not of historical fact are forward-looking statements and are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements relate to, but are not limited to: our goal to be net zero by 2050, our ESG strategy and related goals, our renewable electricity goals, our continued commitment to business integrity, the strength and effectiveness of our ethics and compliance framework, our environmental footprint, sustainability in our industry, our social impacts, and the sustainability of our products and operations. Some factors that may affect these forward-looking statements include: trade regulations and tariffs, export controls, trade disputes, and other geopolitical tensions may inhibit our ability to sell our products; business, political and/or regulatory conditions in the consumer electronics industry, the semiconductor industry and the overall economy may deteriorate or change; the actions of our customers and competitors may be inconsistent with our expectations; supply chain cost increases and other inflationary pressures have impacted and may continue to impact our profitability; supply chain disruptions or manufacturing capacity constraints may limit our ability to manufacture and sell our products; and natural and human-caused disasters, disease outbreaks, war, terrorism, political or governmental unrest or instability, or other events beyond our control may impact our operations and revenue in affected areas; as well as the other risks and uncertainties that are described in the documents filed or furnished by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including specifically the Risk Factors described in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q. These uncertainties and changes could materially affect the forward-looking statements and cause actual results to vary from expectations in a material way. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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- Lam holds ISO 9001 certification for our Fremont and Livermore, California; Tualatin, Oregon; Osan, Korea; Taoyuan City, Taiwan; Villach, Austria; and Penang, Malaysia sites.