A look inside Imec's 300mm wafer clean room.

Imec shows advanced lithography to reduce CO2 emissions in chip factories

Imec has unveiled a new climate-friendly way to produce patterns on chips using lithography and etch for advanced chip factories.

Leuven, Belgium-based Imec said the tech can reduce the carbon dioxide footprint of lithography and etch for advanced technology nodes for chip factories.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.