GIGABYTE has established a systematic eco-friendly product management process to actively ensure the environmental quality guarantees of our products and make continuous improvements to the products’ environmental quality as well. Environmental impact is taken into consideration at the product design phase. The “reduction of environmental burden” ideal is used as a guide to incorporate environmental design and the circular economy concept in the design phase. Materials selection, ease of disassembly, ease of maintenance and extended product life-cycle are used to reduce the use of raw materials and packaging. The reduction in waste and production costs translates into better economic sense and environmental protection. With the core belief “Upgrade Your Life”, we hope that all of our products are made from the viewpoint of the friendliness to the environment, user and society, and our innovative products can upgrade the life of you and me.
Eco-Friendly Product R&D
GIGABYTE has always provided innovative value from consumers’ perspective. We focus on developing products that offer exceptional performance, outstanding quality, superlative craftsmanship and a friendly interface. In its push to extend product life and reduce heat waste, GIGABYTE used design techniques such as all solid state capacitors, super durable materials, dynamic energy saver and 24-phase energy-saving design to realize lower temperatures. Our innovative R&D capability combined with energy-saving technologies hasve also produced new energy-saving products, including: the industry-leading AMP-UP Audio™ technology, extreme 4-Way display output and 2X Copper Inner Layer design. These reduce energy consumption and extend the product life cycle to optimize the use of resources. The introduction of the All Solid Caps motherboard in 2006 triggered a revolution in the motherboard industry and this has since become the industry standard. GIGABYTE is therefore the motherboard supplier with the most complete product range and highest sales ratio in the industry. (An introduction to all product models is available at the (GIGABYTE website)
GIGABYTE has always provided innovative value from consumers’ perspective. We focus on developing products that offer exceptional performance, outstanding quality, superlative craftsmanship and a friendly interface. In its push to extend product life and reduce heat waste, GIGABYTE used design techniques such as all solid state capacitors, super durable materials, dynamic energy saver and 24-phase energy-saving design to realize lower temperatures. Our innovative R&D capability combined with energy-saving technologies hasve also produced new energy-saving products, including: the industry-leading AMP-UP Audio™ technology, extreme 4-Way display output and 2X Copper Inner Layer design. These reduce energy consumption and extend the product life cycle to optimize the use of resources. The introduction of the All Solid Caps motherboard in 2006 triggered a revolution in the motherboard industry and this has since become the industry standard. GIGABYTE is therefore the motherboard supplier with the most complete product range and highest sales ratio in the industry. (An introduction to all product models is available at the (GIGABYTE website)
| Year | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2008 |
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| Name | All Solid State Capacitor Motherboard | 2nd Generation Ultra Durable Motherboard | Dynamic Energy Saver | Ultra Durable™ 3 Motherboard |
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| Product Features | All solid state capacitor design extends product service life | Effectively reduce power loss and operating temperature | Enable or disable Dynamic Energy Saver at the touch of a button | 2 oz pure copper PCB layer dissipates motherboard heat and reduces temperature more effectively |
| Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| Name | 24-Phase Power Design | Ultra Durable™ 4 Motherboard | Ultra Durable™ 5th Motherboard | Ultra Durable™ 5 Plus Technology |
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| Product Features | Improves heat dissipation and effective power distribution | Executive features prevent PC malfunction due to environmental issues | Use of components with ultra-high resistance to current provides up to 95% power conversion efficiency, low power consumption, low heat, longer the life time | Integration of high-quality components and efficient energy-saving function provide high performance system operation, lower heat, and extended motherboard lifespan. |
| Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Name | Ultra Durable Motherboard | Smart Fan 5 Cooling Solution | Anti-sulfur | |
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| Product Features | Strengthens heat dissipation of motherboard in order to achieve high performance and stability at low temperature while system works at full capacity and maximum frequency | Improved motherboard temperature monitoring and cooling to reduce the amount of time that computer components spend at high temperatures and extend their service life. | Grant the ultra-durable motherboards a brand-new value with the proprietary anti-sulfur technique. It can prevent the sulfide in the air from penetrating the built-in resistor of the motherboards and causing short circuit. | |
| Year | 2019 | |||
| Name | Early Adopter of CEC 2019 | |||
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| Product Features | With higher efficiency, higher quality hardware materials and carefully calibrated BIOS, GIGABYTE motherboards consume less power in standby mode when compared with other products. | |||
Better Support and Extended Service Life
In 2011, GIGABYTE became the first in the industry to offer free 4-year warranties across its product line-up, one year more than the prevailing industry standards. After that, we even introduced a five-year warranty for certain modes of motherboards and graphical cards. GIGABYTE always takes the product life cycle into account from the design stage in order to reduce the amount of waste produced and protects the environment in the most practical way. Besides, cooperating with logistics operators and convenience stores, GIGABYTE starts to provide free delivery and collection services (only in Taiwan) for the products to be repaired in order to extend producer responsibility and protect the right of consumers. (For more information about the service please refer to GIGABYTE Official Website)
In 2011, GIGABYTE became the first in the industry to offer free 4-year warranties across its product line-up, one year more than the prevailing industry standards. After that, we even introduced a five-year warranty for certain modes of motherboards and graphical cards. GIGABYTE always takes the product life cycle into account from the design stage in order to reduce the amount of waste produced and protects the environment in the most practical way. Besides, cooperating with logistics operators and convenience stores, GIGABYTE starts to provide free delivery and collection services (only in Taiwan) for the products to be repaired in order to extend producer responsibility and protect the right of consumers. (For more information about the service please refer to GIGABYTE Official Website)
Hazardous Substance Management
GIGABYTE monitors international developments in environmental regulations to provide consumers with products that are not only safe but also comply with international regulations and customer requirements. These include the EU REACH Directive, EU Battery Directive, EU Packaging Directive, and China’s Measures for the Administration of the Restricted Use of Hazardous Substances Contained in Electrical and Electronic Products. All of our products, including the motherboards, VGA, CD-ROM drive, shell, and power supply, comply with the EU RoHS Directive. We establish the Harmful Chemical-Substances Requirements (HCSR) and ask our partners to comply with these regulations. We manage harmful substances systematically at different levels and incorporate the harmful substances to be controlled pursuant to different regulations in our controlled high-risk substances list in a timely manner to eliminate these substances as required by the law. In 2018, we updated the GIGABYTE Harmful Chemical-Substances Requirements (HCSR) to version 4.5. The new version upgraded polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its composite materials to Level A (banned substance). After confirming with each business group, GIGABYTE products no longer use TDCPP or TECP. After related regulations were promulgated in California, these two substances were added to the list in the company’s rules in order to better manage all chemical substances that potentially contain either of these substances. Follow-up actions will be taken afterward to ensure that all the suppliers meet the HCSR.
GIGABYTE monitors international developments in environmental regulations to provide consumers with products that are not only safe but also comply with international regulations and customer requirements. These include the EU REACH Directive, EU Battery Directive, EU Packaging Directive, and China’s Measures for the Administration of the Restricted Use of Hazardous Substances Contained in Electrical and Electronic Products. All of our products, including the motherboards, VGA, CD-ROM drive, shell, and power supply, comply with the EU RoHS Directive. We establish the Harmful Chemical-Substances Requirements (HCSR) and ask our partners to comply with these regulations. We manage harmful substances systematically at different levels and incorporate the harmful substances to be controlled pursuant to different regulations in our controlled high-risk substances list in a timely manner to eliminate these substances as required by the law. In 2018, we updated the GIGABYTE Harmful Chemical-Substances Requirements (HCSR) to version 4.5. The new version upgraded polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its composite materials to Level A (banned substance). After confirming with each business group, GIGABYTE products no longer use TDCPP or TECP. After related regulations were promulgated in California, these two substances were added to the list in the company’s rules in order to better manage all chemical substances that potentially contain either of these substances. Follow-up actions will be taken afterward to ensure that all the suppliers meet the HCSR.
Waste Reduction
Reduction of resource consumption is the first step toward friendly products. (Raw) material and packaging as well as waste material and production cost may be reduced by selecting innovative materials, providing the products that are dissembled and repaired easily, and extending the service life of the product to realize a win-win situation for the economy and environment. We have set up a designated unit to investigate the material for all products and continuously adjust the (raw) material parameters to optimize and minimize the consumption. This not only lowers production costs but also reduces the pollution and waste. In addition to the reduction of (raw) materials used in the product, the packaging plays an indispensable role in the production. Being a kind of disposable materials, it protects the product and is the part of the product that first contact the consumer. We proactively search to find how to reduce the impact of the packaging on the environment and make the packaging friendlier to the environment and user. In recent years, GIGABYTE has spared no effort to improve the use of resources, including using the minimum product packaging, making use of recyclable materials, not using polystyrene for padding, limiting the use of hazardous substances in packaging, and use of recycling symbols. Furthermore, GIGABYTE successfully introduces eco-friendly packaging materials (RFP) to notebook products which are expected to increase transportation efficiency and reduce the product’s carbon footprint. These materials will be used with other products as well so that all products and their packaging materials can all be eco-friendly. (For more information about RFP please refer to Recycle Fiber of Plant (RFP) )
Recycling
Please refer to Recycling Information. Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Please refer to Sustainable Supply Chain.
Reduction of resource consumption is the first step toward friendly products. (Raw) material and packaging as well as waste material and production cost may be reduced by selecting innovative materials, providing the products that are dissembled and repaired easily, and extending the service life of the product to realize a win-win situation for the economy and environment. We have set up a designated unit to investigate the material for all products and continuously adjust the (raw) material parameters to optimize and minimize the consumption. This not only lowers production costs but also reduces the pollution and waste. In addition to the reduction of (raw) materials used in the product, the packaging plays an indispensable role in the production. Being a kind of disposable materials, it protects the product and is the part of the product that first contact the consumer. We proactively search to find how to reduce the impact of the packaging on the environment and make the packaging friendlier to the environment and user. In recent years, GIGABYTE has spared no effort to improve the use of resources, including using the minimum product packaging, making use of recyclable materials, not using polystyrene for padding, limiting the use of hazardous substances in packaging, and use of recycling symbols. Furthermore, GIGABYTE successfully introduces eco-friendly packaging materials (RFP) to notebook products which are expected to increase transportation efficiency and reduce the product’s carbon footprint. These materials will be used with other products as well so that all products and their packaging materials can all be eco-friendly. (For more information about RFP please refer to Recycle Fiber of Plant (RFP) )
Recycling
Please refer to Recycling Information. Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Please refer to Sustainable Supply Chain.