Samsung is trying to get ahead of any sustainability criticisms, unveiling its life cycle assessment (LCA) on the carbon footprint of its semiconductor offerings. With its LCA established at the end of last year, Samsung plans to quantify the carbon footprints of chips manufactured across all its global manufacturing, testing and assembly locations in Korea, China, and the US. As defined by the ISO, “a life cycle assessment is the compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs and potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle.” It is unclear exactly how long this will take, or what the resulting KPIs will be, while Faultline’s attempts to clarify this with Samsung have so far been unanswered. However, it…