Technology saves enough energy to power 16.5 million light bulbs

NXP Semiconductors has announced the production of the 400 millionth GreenChip, a highly energy-efficient family of ICs for use in consumer and computing power supplies. GreenChips, which have been reducing the power required for PCs, laptops and TVs for ten years, have helped save the same amount of energy that would have been required to light 16.5 million regular 60W light bulbs.

NXP calculates that if GreenChips were installed in all PCs around the world, three standard (1GigaWatt) power stations could be immediately decommissioned.

GreenChip is an excellent example of NXP’s EcoDesign, which takes the environmental aspects of a product into account during the initial design phase to ensure new products have minimal impact on the environment in the way they are designed and manufactured. Moreover, these chips limit the energy usage in applications throughout their lifetime.

The GreenChip family of ICs is designed specifically for energy saving and has, from its inception, led industry standards in PC power efficiency. The current, third generation of the GreenChip saw the introduction of the GreenChip PC chipset to address power consumption in notebook adapters and LCD TVs as well as PC Desktop power supplies. The GreenChip PC already conforms to ENERGY STAR requirements for 2009, and is the only solution for PC power supplies certified by EPRI for 85PLUS, increasing the overall efficiency of desktop PC power supplies by to 90 percent. This cuts energy losses in a desktop power supply by more than 50 percent. As a consequence of its scalable design that enables engineers to balance performance, cost and integrated stand-by, the GreenChip PC will enable computer users and businesses to reduce energy consumption.