Green Products｜Quality and Accountability
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.
8.7
billion/NTD
Nuvoton continued to expand its R&D scale, with R&D expenses exceeding NT$9.1 billion for the year.
Quality and Responsibility
Product Quality Management
Nuvoton's philosophy on quality management is to use a spirit of continuous innovation to provide excellent product and service quality, and become an irreplaceable partner for customers. Nuvoton establishes, implements, maintains, and continually improves its quality management system based on the IATF 16949 international standard management principles, including necessary processes and their interactions, to enhance the organization's quality performance. Internally, the company continuously improves product quality and meets customer requirements through three aspects: quality control, reliability assurance, and failure analysis.
Quality Control
Reliability Assurance
Failure Analysis
Nuvoton develops and enacts robust management systems grounded in international standards like ISO 9001, IATF 16949 and IECQ QC080000. These systems focus on product quality and green products. By doing so, Nuvoton improves operational efficiency and effectiveness, elevates the quality of products and services, and upholds sustainable responsibilities. Nuvoton Japan has established an ISO 9001 quality management system and obtained ISO 9001:2015 quality certification. Additionally, it has also acquired ISO 21434.
Quality Management System Process
To ensure that all employees possess the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes necessary to perform their duties, Nuvoton continuously conducts internal and external quality management education and training annually. The types include new employee training, on-the-job education, and professional staff training, comprehensively strengthening employees' quality awareness and application of quality control methods, including quality circle activities, seven quality control tools, statistical analysis methods, FMEA, and other quality-related training.
Product Hazardous Substance Management
Nuvoton implements a rigorous five-step process to manage hazardous substances in all its products. This stringent self-imposed regulatory framework has been recognized by customers. Since 2009, Nuvoton has been a SONY-certified Green Partner and has regularly passed SONY's Green Partner audits. Based on the management system framework of ISO 9001 and IATF 16949, Nuvoton Taiwan obtained the IECQ QC 080000 certification for hazardous substance process management from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 2008. This ''process-oriented'' approach minimizes or eliminates hazardous substances in products, enabling systematic hazardous substance management that meets RoHS, REACH, WEEE, and other customer-specific requirements, effectively operating a robust hazardous substance management system.
No incident related to hazardous substance noncompliance occurred in Nuvoton Taiwan in 2024. In response to significant regulatory updates in 2024, it is confirmed that all Nuvoton Taiwan products meet the requirements of the REACH Regulation SVHC, which includes the addition of 7 new controlled substances, bringing the total to 242 items. Additionally, it also follows the EU POPs (Regulation (EU) 2019/1021) requirements after the inclusion of 3 new controlled substances in 2024, and the SONY SS-00259 ver.22 requirements. Nuvoton Taiwan discloses the packaging plant for the source of product components/ingredients, and Nuvoton Japan has marked compliance with RoHS and lead-free requirements.
