4 papers
Too cheap to matter: over abundant microchips, and what we can learn from them
Adrian Friday, Fieke Jansen, Gauthier Roussilhe +1
Ultra-cheap microchips (<$1) are so abundant they've become a 'smart material' integrated and disposable in everyday things. Hidden in our everyday products, we have entirely lost…
Counting own goals: High-level assessment of the economic relationship between the ICT and the Oil and Gas sectors and its environmental implications
Gauthier Roussilhe, Béatrice Dromard, Srinjoy Mitra
The ICT sector has been one of the most successful and fastest-growing industry in history. While the environmental issue in this sector has mainly been addressed by assessing its…
Purer than pure: how purity reshapes the upstream materiality of the semiconductor industry
Gauthier Roussilhe, Thibault Pirson, David Bol +1
Growing attention is given to the environmental impacts of the digital sector, exacerbated by the increase of digital products and services in our globalized societies. The materia…
The belief in Moore's Law is undermining ICT climate action
Adrian Friday, Christina Bremer, Oliver Bates +3
The growth of semiconductor technology is unprecedented, with profound transformational consequences for society. This includes feeding an over-reliance on digital solutions to sys…