Green Product｜Innovative Research Development
We strive to be the invisible champions enriching human life with green semiconductors, investing in advanced manufacturing processes to significantly reduce chip size, improve resource efficiency, lower energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This ensures that stakeholders can enjoy the conveniences brought by technology in an environmentally friendly context.
143
PCS
Startup invention proposals
38
%
Total carbon footprint reduction of energy-saving and carbon-reduction products.
9.1
billion/NTD
Nuvoton continued to expand its R&D scale, with R&D expenses exceeding NT$9.1 billion for the year.
Innovation in Research & Development
The development of green semiconductor technology can have a positive impact on the future for humankind and our environment. Nuvoton envisions itself as the "invisible champion enriching human life with green semiconductor technology." It regards "research and innovation" as the driving force for the sustainable transformation of semiconductor IC design products, and aspires for its products to continue expanding their footprint in overseas applications. At the same time, in response to new trends in the international market, Nuvoton is expanding resources to pursue product optimization in major areas of development, such as microcontrollers, cloud computing, and automotive industrial control networks. Products are designed and applied at terminals to achieve energy-saving and carbon reduction goals, continuously providing customers with high-quality products and new solutions, thus maintaining Nuvoton's leading position in the IC Design House market.
Semiconductor Industry Chain Positioning
Nuvoton is an IC design company positioned upstream in the semiconductor industry chain, facing the front line impact of changes in market demand. Our technical research and development require flexibility, advancement, and integration. From the perspective of the supply chain, Nuvoton's products serve as the control and computing core of end products. In the field of cloud computing ICs, Nuvoton provides downstream customers with development of microcontrollers, microprocessors, smart home solutions, cloud security, battery monitoring, image sensing, IoT, and other related application ICs and semiconductor components, with deep expertise cultivated over many years. Additionally, Nuvoton is one of the few domestic IC design companies with wafer fabrication capabilities, owning a 6-inch wafer fab in Taiwan. It manufactures its own IC products and provides specialized wafer foundry services, establishing long-term and stable cooperation models with upstream players (raw material and equipment suppliers).
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Midstream
Downstream
Research and Innovation Management Strategy
Based on the four innovation missions, Nuvoton has formulated management policies for its product development-related business groups to ensure consistency in product planning and design across different periods. It is committed to launching new technologies, high computational efficiency, and safer green products to meet energy-saving and carbon reduction goals.
Technical Research and Development Management Strategy
In 2023, Nuvoton continued to expand its R&D scale, with R&D expenses exceeding NT$9.1 billion for the year, accounting for approximately 26% of total revenue. With more than 1,200 R&D personnel from Nuvoton Japan participating in improving product design, technology development, testing, and production efficiency, Nuvoton demonstrates its determination and commitment to product and technological innovation.
Microcontroller Application Business Group
The Microcontroller Application Business Group focuses on MCU/MPU products and audio products. MCU/MPU products prioritize user product safety and information security as the fundamental requirements. They incorporate energy-saving improvements and endpoint AI trends, exploring and defining key IPs or architectures in line with customer, market, and environmental trends for technical and product development. Audio products are application-oriented, introducing technologies to save battery consumption, reduce power consumption, achieve lighter and thinner packaging, minimize peripheral component and board material consumption, and gradually invest in high-end AI intelligent interaction research to develop comprehensive management strategies.
Manufacturing Business Group
In the global trend towards energy-saving efficiency, the Manufacturing Business Group continues to cultivate high-voltage process platforms for various application areas, providing customers with green semiconductors. In the HVIC process, development and implementation for customer products were completed in 2022, advancing to 600V application voltage by 2023, demonstrating technological innovation capabilities. In the future, close cooperation with customers will be established to invest in developing customized technologies, enabling customers' products to firmly establish a foothold in market demand and create value together. Additionally, resources will be invested in promoting smart manufacturing operations, executing innovative projects, monitoring carbon emissions automatically, improving operational efficiency, and reducing environmental consumption to achieve sustainable production goals.
Cloud Security Business Group
The Cloud Security Business Group's application areas include data centers, cloud servers, edge computing, and end-device-related computing device ecosystems, covering applications, such as security architecture, interface processing, and energy management. In response to the trends of remote work and education, the business group is dedicated to developing low-power, high-computing performance products. Additionally, for rapidly evolving cloud data centers, a highly secure remote control module is being constructed to meet the security environment requirements for personal and corporate cloud data processing. The business group focuses on two main directions for developing green products:
- Energy-saving and carbon reduction in manufacturing processes: reducing wafer chip area, shortening production time, and producing more products per unit wafer energy consumption in the same process.
- Energy-saving and carbon reduction in product functionality: products feature faster computational efficiency, integration of more interfaces, higher-performance computing core units, and system integration from multiple chips into one chip, overall improving customer system efficiency and reducing unit time energy consumption.
In 2023, Nuvoton continued to expand its R&D scale, with R&D expenses exceeding NT$9.1 billion for the year, accounting for approximately 26% of total revenue. With more than 1,200 R&D personnel from Nuvoton Japan participating in improving product design, technology development, testing, and production efficiency, Nuvoton demonstrates its determination and commitment to product and technological innovation.