Our society is demanding more computing power as our lives are increasingly taking place online, while innovations such as electric vehicles also increase demand for power. Without improvements in the design or the production of chips, this demand cannot be satisfied without a concurrent increase in demand for power. Also, chip production is an environmentally sensitive process.

TSMC is the leading company when it comes to the production of chips. While it relies on machines from, among others, ASML to produce these chips, its expertise in building chip production lines is unrivaled. This expertise helps to scale up innovations in chip production equipment. This is important, as without this expertise, we would not have been able to make chips smaller, faster and less power hungry. Such chips would then only be available in small numbers. As a result, TSMC makes a significant contribution to a digitizing but power-efficient society.

TSMC's size enables it to produce chips in a safe and environmentally efficient way. Chip production requires quite some water, but TSMC has strong policies and practices to deal with this. The same goes for its management of CO₂ emissions and waste. As our society cannot function without chips, we prefer to see them being manufactured by a company like TSMC.

Alignment with Triodos Transitions: 53% of the company's revenues is aligned with the Energy Transition. The contribution to the Energy Transition comes from 53% of revenues related to the impact objective Energy Efficiency.