With the rapid rise of emerging technologies, cross-border trade wars occur one after another and the big environment is fully affected. As a globally leading technology brand, GIGABYTE has always kept pace with the times and has control of the industry trends. We established an unshakable position in the industry with motherboards and graphics cards, continue to develop breakthrough patented technologies, and extend our long term foundational outstanding skills. In recent years, we continue to launch top solutions for corporate customers in the servers, internet of things applications, laptops, and gaming businesses. Through the strategy of industry-government collaboration and alliances between different industries, the excellent technical foundation of each business group continues to deliver brilliant accomplishment in the cloud industry including AI, IoT, 5G and Edge Computing, high-performance computing, and data centers, highly met the needs of enterprises and society. We are committed to the purpose of GIGABYTE "Upgrade Your Life", and further cross into the smart life circle, through the active layout of application fields of automotive electronics, smart dressing, and face recognition, expecting to let people have a more convenient and comfortable life.
In 2019, GIGABYTE demonstrated strong and continuously evolving energy, laying a solid foundation for a more exciting and prosperous 2020.
Composing the Technology and Sustainable HarmonyThe development of new technology can still be in harmony with the environment and society. GIGABYTE regards the common good of society and sustainable development as our own responsibility. All employees strive together to realize the corporate mission of "Upgrade g Your Life" with brand new professional technology and ideas to construct the solutions that fit in the needs of humanity, society, and the environment. We constantly pursue excellence and surpass the peak, and expect to let the world see a better possibility. Since the United Nations announced 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, GIGABYTE has continued to propose corresponding strategies to practice sustainable development without falling behind. In 2019, we began to introduce smart technology into agriculture, hoping that global food supply under the dual pressure of climate and population, the crop growth status can be controlled and big data analysis can be conducted by using the GIGABYTE AIoT and cloud storage technology to stabilize food productivity and construct and deliver a more complete agricultural database. By accelerating the automation and intelligent processes for factory logistics, warehousing, and manufacturing processes to strengthen the precise and accurate working environment and processes, and also protect employees from more potential occupational injuries. In terms of boosting internally creative energy, we launched the "Sustainability Fund" and a 6-year "Reduction Reward Project" to stimulate design thinking of resource efficiency and circular economy, and encourage employees to find out energy-saving and carbon-reduction hot spots from daily operation to strive for optimizing and greening every process of the product life cycle.
The Climate Policy with "Global Vision, Local Action"
GIGABYTE's constant demand for sustainability has created extraordinary achievements in carbon reduction. Since the launch of the Green Action Plan in 2009, the carbon reduction has been reduced by more than 40% over the past ten years, significantly ahead of schedule. At the same time, it has also actively responded to the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), striving for climate goals and strategies that are seamlessly integrated with international standards to allow the performance with more testability. Since responding to the "Trillion Tree Campaign" of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2017, tens of thousands of consumers around the world have been called on to respond to planting trees and understand the importance of forest conservation. Co-organizing the Plant-for-the-Planet Academies between 2017 and 2019 to let the next generation of Taiwan understand the global climate change crises and develop the ability to take local action at an early age. Children are the future leaders of the Earth. GIGABYTE outlines a map of hope for children and expects both youths and children will become the pillars of future climate justice. Everyone is Indispensable for Achieving Sustainability
Like a business alliance, a sustainable action also requires partnership. Here we sincerely invite every stakeholder who cares about GIGABYTE to join hands with us in practice and do our best to sow sustainable seeds for the Earth together!
