As a leading semiconductor distributor, WT provides cutting-edge products and exceptional solutions to tens of thousands of customers and a broad base of end users worldwide, working with suppliers and customers to overcome a wide range of design challenges. Facing increasingly severe climate change, WT takes responsibility, actively responds to climate risks, and seizes the opportunities that arise.
As a key player in the global semiconductor distribution industry, we firmly believe that distributors are not only suppliers of components in the industrial value chain, but also strategic partners that drive transformation. Through green technology and technological enablement, we work with partners to create significant impact, turning each new technology and innovation into a key driving force for the green upgrading of industries. We are committed to providing leading products and exceptional services, and to fulfilling our responsibility as a hub in the industrial value chain amid intensifying climate risks.
We have made a net-zero pledge and have embedded green design and clean technology into the foundation of our business. Through key technology drivers, industry insights, enhanced supplier and customer competitiveness, support for industrial transformation, and strengthened execution, we work hand in hand with leading suppliers and customers across the industry to transform technological breakthroughs into sustainable momentum across the entire value chain, creating an energy-saving, waste-reducing, resilient, and highly efficient future.
▲ WT continues to advance the development of clean technology and green design through three core values, four action directions, and five key capabilities.
Practicing a low-carbon supply chain through clean technology
WT strengthens three core values: technical services, solutions, and platform leverage. Through four action directions, enhancing green design, promoting social resilience, responding to climate risks and opportunities, and participating in initiatives while continuing to take action, WT continues to turn green innovation thinking into practical action. At the same time, the Company leverages five key capabilities to promote clean technology and support social sustainability.
Key technology driver: WT is not only a distributor of semiconductor components, but also an R&D partner with strong technology integration capabilities. Through the Group’s efforts, we transform suppliers’ advanced chips into system-level reference designs characterized by energy conservation, waste reduction, resilience, and high efficiency. Leveraging our deep capabilities in hardware development and hardware-software integration, we proactively overcome design bottlenecks and integrate technological breakthroughs in individual components into green solutions with mass-production value.
Industry insight: Amid changes in global climate, industry demand, and socioeconomic development, WT plays a central role in the supply chain and applies its capabilities in risk identification and trend forecasting. We not only analyze the potential impact of extreme weather and climate regulations on global supply chains, but also integrate suppliers’ forward-looking technologies with market demand for sustainability. Through long-term industry-academia-research collaboration, we identify the development paths of green computing power and the resilient economy from complex industry data, ensuring that we stay ahead on the path toward net-zero emissions and a sustainable economy.
Market competitiveness: Environmental protection and compliance have evolved from requirements and responsibilities into fundamental requirements for green design and entry into international markets, as well as a foundation for profitability. Through clean technology solutions, WT helps customers embed sustainability at the early stages of product R&D, translating environmental friendliness into tangible product value and competitiveness. In the face of carbon tariff thresholds, our low-power, highly integrated, and modular designs help customers gain higher market share and brand value in the net-zero era, making sustainability a core driver of business.
Industrial transformation capability: As a leading global distributor, we continuously listen to customers’ needs for new applications and new markets, while also working with leading suppliers to explore the benefits that new technologies and products can bring to industries. Whether transitioning from fuel vehicles to green transportation, from individual physiological indicators to smart healthcare monitoring, or from labor-intensive production to computing-power-driven intelligent machinery, we deliver the momentum of clean technology to various end applications. We help traditional industries reshape their value chains, move toward intelligence and zero-carbon development, strengthen industrial resilience, and realize sustainable shared prosperity for the environment and society.
WT’s own execution capability: The value of a commitment to sustainable net-zero lies in relentless implementation. WT translates its belief in wise deployment and enabling the future into concrete operating indicators. From efficient packaging material recycling programs at global logistics sites to phased targets for all Group offices to use renewable energy by 2030, we demonstrate our execution capability in honoring commitments and pursuing excellence. Through green procurement, substantive cultivation of industry-academia talent, and public welfare participation that strengthens social resilience, we carry the ESG spirit from the decision-making level through daily operations, ensuring that every sustainability action delivers traceable and verifiable results.
Deepening green design: Four goals and forward-looking sustainable solutions
We will continue to deepen green design, develop energy-saving products and solutions, improve energy efficiency, and reduce the carbon footprint of customers and end users. WT integrates clean technology and green thinking into every stage of design and is committed to achieving four major green design goals: energy conservation, waste reduction, resilience, and high efficiency.
WT has increased the number of reference designs targeting green design year by year.
Key technology driver: Integrating suppliers’ advanced technologies and proactively developing market-leading green solutions
Optimization practices for high-performance AI computing power architecture
In an era of explosive demand for AI computing power, energy supply efficiency determines the sustainability of infrastructure. WT has implemented AI server power solutions with the core objective of addressing power losses in data centers under high-power demand. Compared with traditional 12V power architectures, 48V designs can substantially reduce line conduction losses. This not only significantly improves data center energy efficiency and directly reduces the load pressure on regional power grids but also demonstrates WT’s practical technology-driving capability in power architecture and helps the AI industry continue to improve energy efficiency performance.
Breakthrough energy-efficiency technology under extreme power density
Faced with the contradiction between limited server space and rapidly increasing power demand, WT developed a 3.2 kW M-CRPS power supply and an HVDC 800V-to-54V module with power density of up to 100 W/in3. These reference designs demonstrate our sensitivity to market demand, solid foundation in technology R&D, and ability to integrate new products with circuit design. By adopting wide-bandgap semiconductors (GaN/SiC), we achieved energy conversion efficiency exceeding 96% in a smaller form factor. This application significantly reduces losses caused by high current in high-power applications. It also ensures that every unit of power is used precisely under the highly dynamic load environment of AI computing. This substantially reduces waste heat dissipation and drives the industry toward greener hardware standards with higher energy efficiency.
Taking this 3.2 kW modular power supply as an example, we fully implemented the four core goals of green design in this project: energy conservation, waste reduction, resilience, and high efficiency. In terms of energy conservation and high efficiency, we improved conversion efficiency in light-load ranges through digital control. For waste reduction and resilience, the project adopted a fully modular design, which not only effectively optimizes airflow and reduces waste heat generation, but more importantly addresses the risk of resource waste caused by having to scrap an entire traditional power module when products iterate or specifications change. The modular architecture also improves system maintenance and commercial flexibility in cost structure.
In addition to implementing the above design goals, we also evaluated project synergy improvement and risk reduction from multiple perspectives:
Financial risk management: Before project launch, the team conducted in-depth analysis of the global AI market scale and supply chain trends and coordinated among customers, vendors, and WT to ensure that the selected solution offers cost competitiveness and supply stability.
Technology and regulatory risk management: We also conducted circuit simulation and software verification to confirm the feasibility of key technologies, and took the lead in introducing the SPDM (Security Protocol and Data Model) security protocol to ensure that the product meets the stringent requirements of next-generation AI servers for communication security and firmware authentication.
Operational and environmental risk management: By selecting high-specification components and standardized communication interfaces, the project ensures long-term stable power operation. The modular design not only reduces inventory and maintenance costs at the business level, but also implements resource recycling at the environmental level, effectively reducing overall operational risk.
Embedded AI-driven predictive maintenance
We extend our technology-driving capability into hardware-software integration by launching MCU-based embedded AI. By embedding machine learning algorithms in microcontrollers, applications gain self-detection and failure-prevention capabilities. When the system detects component aging or energy-efficiency deviation, it can issue real-time alerts, shifting the operating model from traditional replacement after failure to preventive maintenance. This design not only significantly extends the lifecycle of costly electronic components and reduces electronic waste at the source, but also realizes long-term resource use empowered by technology, saving costs while protecting the environment. Similarly, with the introduction of embedded AI and in response to an aging society and rising health awareness, we have introduced embedded AI into health and medical management systems, fulfilling our corporate social responsibility and contributing to sustainability through green design.
Comprehensive cross-domain promotion of wide-bandgap semiconductors
WT broadly deploys its technology-driving capability in high-power-density GaN RF modules, on-board charger (OBC) modules, and inverters. We help vendors introduce advanced components such as gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) into high-efficiency applications. These solutions play key roles in communications, transportation, and industrial fields. They not only reduce equipment size and heat generation, but also maintain excellent energy conversion rates under high-speed operation. Through these solutions, WT demonstrates leadership in helping customers transition from traditional silicon-based components to high-efficiency, lowcarbon materials, laying a solid hardware foundation for the broader adoption of clean technology.
Industry insight: Accurately identifying climate risks and market trends, serving as a bridge for industry-academia-research collaboration, and anticipating future demand
A forward-looking perspective on climate risk identification and opportunity transformation
WT has outstanding climate risk identification capabilities. We deeply analyze the potential impacts of extreme weather, regulatory changes, and technological iteration on the supply chain and view them as drivers of transformation. For example, as environmental awareness rises, high-energy-consuming products will be phased out. Based on this insight, we continue to deploy AI PC solutions in low-power power management and high-performance computing. These insights allow us not only to avoid regulatory risks, but also to seize emerging market opportunities brought by clean technology, defining future growth curves amid sustainability challenges.
A technology bridge among industry, academia, and research
As a distribution leader, WT sits at a key node of information convergence. We have the insight to bridge suppliers’ forward-looking R&D, academia’s innovative theories, and customers’ market practices. From diverse technical information, we identify truly sustainable development directions, such as promoting common protocols (such as Matter) for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, AIenabled innovation for traditional applications, and upgrading high-energy-consuming applications into high-efficiency products. This insight enables us to serve as a communication bridge among industry, academia, and research, helping all parties connect resources. Through information sharing and technical exchange, WT leads the value chain in jointly anticipating next-generation green design trends, reducing ineffective R&D, and accelerating the industry’s net-zero progress.
Strengthening product and social resilience through modular and redundant design
In addressing the risk of supply chain disruptions caused by extreme climate events, we emphasize the importance of system resilience. By promoting modular power supplies (M-CRPS) and flexible architecture interfaces, we reduce dependence on components with a single specification. Anticipating society’s future demand for power quality and supply continuity, we invested early in BBU and energy storage technologies. This foresight into the resilient economy allows WT’s solutions to provide greater stability during environmental emergencies and helps customers build product resilience with long-term competitiveness.
Long-term deployment for social progress and talent cultivation
WT recognizes that true sustainability comes from improving talent quality. Future engineers need multidisciplinary integration capabilities across machinery, power, and business marketing. This insight drives us to spare no effort in talent cultivation and help academia align teaching content with actual industrial decarbonization needs. We understand that education is the deepest driver of industrial transformation. Through long-term investment in younger generations, we help society build an intellectual foundation for addressing climate change, allowing WT’s influence to extend beyond products and take root in every part of the industry’s future.
Market competitiveness: Helping customers reduce carbon costs through green design and transforming sustainability indicators into tangible sustainable value
Clean technology solution platform
The green design solutions proposed by WT have successfully built a one-stop clean technology solution platform. As a distribution leader, we can quickly integrate solutions that meet green design goals through the deep involvement of our technical team at the early stage of product design. This not only shortens customers’ R&D timelines and reduces the risks of introducing new technologies or products, but also helps suppliers accurately launch sustainable products that combine market relevance, technology, cost competitiveness, and competitive advantage.
Value enhancement of the smart home ecosystem
WT invests in the development of Matter smart home integration solutions. Through a common protocol, cross-brand and cross-platform collaboration is achieved, breaking down communication silos among devices. This not only helps customers easily integrate their products into the global smart home ecosystem, but also uses system-level energy-saving scheduling, such as automatic adjustment of lighting and air conditioning based on sensors, so that customers’ products are no longer single pieces of hardware but integrated solutions with energy management value. The adoption of common communication protocol standards also prevents large numbers of Internet of Things (IoT) devices from becoming electronic waste over time. This significantly increases product market value and strengthens users’ awareness of green sustainability.
Green efficiency advantages in supply chain logistics and operating processes
Market competitiveness is also reflected in WT’s own green operations. We have developed and used smart order processing and sales operation systems to optimize logistics routes and inventory management, significantly reducing transportation carbon emissions. At the same time, we help customers conduct more precise inventory allocation and forecasting, reducing resource waste caused by overpurchasing or product obsolescence.
This green supply chain service optimizes companies’ own Scope 3 emissions and provides customers with a transparent cooperation system with low-carbon competitive advantages, making WT an indispensable strategic partner for customers in the ESG era.
Industrial transformation capability: Leading cross-industry transition toward zero carbon and intelligence
WT is committed to serving as an accelerator and collaborator for industrial transformation in a structural upgrade where fossil energy is shifting to renewable electricity and labor-intensive industries are moving toward computing-power-intensive models. We help industries achieve cross-era upgrades in energy and production models and move together with the value chain toward net-zero carbon emissions and intelligent application enablement.
Energy structure revolution: From fossil energy to renewable electricity
In the transition toward net-zero emissions, WT serves as a key engine for promoting electrification. We invest significant resources in developing multi-module stackable energy storage systems (ESS), battery backup units (BBU), and home charging equipment for electric vehicles. These reference solutions address the intermittency risk of renewable energy supply and provide a critical buffer for grid resilience. This not only reduces dependence on fossil fuels, but also transforms it into efficient management and storage of green electricity, enabling the foundational construction of energy infrastructure so that green energy can truly become a stable industrial driving force.
Evolution of productivity: From labor-driven to computing-power-driven
WT promotes smart enablement across various applications, upgrading Internet of Things (IoT) devices into Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) devices and enabling equipment to move from collecting and transmitting information to active learning and prediction. This not only reduces latency and improves response speed, but can also proactively predict failures and reduce system energy consumption. For example, the EdgeSmart real-time anomaly alert platform in our reference designs helps traditional industries transform inefficient processes that relied on manual inspection and subjective judgment into smart models driven by precise edge computing. Through AI that uses computing power to optimize electricity and strengthen manpower, energy distribution and failure risks can be monitored in real time, process losses can be reduced, and waste caused by human error or downtime can be avoided. From applying brushless DC motor control technology to automated production lines to the comprehensive upgrade to Industry 4.0, WT’s long-term R&D and participation are working with suppliers and customers to jointly drive and experience a high-efficiency production revolution led by computing power, achieving a cross-generational upgrade in industrial efficiency.
Comprehensive transformation of healthcare and social resilience
Industrial transformation capability is also reflected in contributions to the sustainability of human society. The MediAI smart medication monitoring system reference design developed by WT shifts the traditional diagnosis and treatment model, which provides medical care only after illness occurs, toward precise prevention, long-term care, and remote monitoring. This not only reduces the consumption of medical resources caused by major illness, but also improves healthcare standards and social resilience in remote areas through technology. We transform advanced semiconductor technology into tools that safeguard quality of life, demonstrating how a technology distribution leader can build a more protective and secure future architecture for society through cross-industry technology integration.
Execution capability: Turning goals into substantive results and fulfilling sustainability commitments through industry-academia collaboration and global deployment
Installation of renewable energy equipment and improvement of office energy efficiency
To increase the proportion of renewable energy use, WT has demonstrated efficient execution. We have prioritized the installation of solar power generation equipment at the Shanghai office and promoted energy- and water-saving measures across operating sites. Through precise GHG inventories and third-party verification, we break down carbon reduction actions into concrete annual actions and outcome indicators. This ensures that WT can provide real and traceable reduction results when responding to climate risks, demonstrating strong execution toward the corporate net-zero vision.
Strengthening the green procurement and supply chain management system
We actively implement green procurement, and the amount of green procurement in 2025 continued to reach a new high. WT not only prioritizes servers and information equipment with environmental labels in its own operations, but also extends this execution capability to supply chain management. We require suppliers to sign sustainability commitment letters and conduct on-site assessments to ensure that their products comply with hazardous substance controls. This inside-out execution capability makes WT a model for implementing ESG indicators in the supply chain.
Industry-academia collaboration accelerates the incubation and implementation of net-zero technologies, while public welfare actions promote social resilience
WT understands that technological innovation requires talent. We actively promote industry-academia collaboration, whether by sponsoring school activities, participating in courses, or assisting suppliers in practical courses and interschool competitions, so that theoretical knowledge can be connected with hands-on experience in actual design control. Through strategic partnerships with multiple schools, we share real market data and application scenarios to support academia’s R&D in decarbonization technologies. This execution capability is reflected in our resource investment in talent cultivation. By providing industry-academia programs and research projects, we are accelerating the transformation of green technology prototypes from laboratories into commercializable industrial solutions, supporting the realization of net-zero goals.
Execution capability also extends to social care and resilience enhancement. WT not only sponsors technical competitions, but also conveys the concept of sustainable careers through visits and exchanges, such as visits by international students. This cross-sector participation allows WT’s execution capability to go beyond business reporting and become a driving force for social safety and progress, achieving shared growth between the Company and society.
Wise deployment, enabling the future
High-voltage direct current (HVDC) power architecture: Driving green innovation in AI computing infrastructure
With the explosive growth of generative AI, cloud computing, and large data centers, AI servers have placed unprecedentedly stringent requirements on power supply stability, power density, and energy conversion efficiency. Traditional AC/DC and low-voltage distribution architectures are facing physical limits and efficiency bottlenecks in meeting ultra-high power demand. Therefore, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems are becoming the core power supply architecture leading future data centers.
WT is actively deploying forward-looking power solutions. Through high-power modules that convert 800V to 54V with power exceeding 10 kW, we directly supply power to AI accelerators and server motherboards. This design approach not only effectively shortens the power transmission path and significantly reduces copper losses, but also achieves excellent power density within limited space, ensuring longer-term stable operation and scalability for the system.
Facing increasingly severe global trends in energy conservation and carbon reduction as well as ESG regulations, improving data center energy efficiency indicators has become a strategic core of corporate development. High-efficiency HVDC power systems are not only technological breakthroughs, but also a key pathway to helping companies achieve net-zero goals. WT will continue to strengthen R&D and design in green technology. By introducing highly versatile and highly integrated power solutions, we help industries accelerate the implementation of green certification systems and jointly define a digital future with low environmental impact and high output value.
R&D investment in 2025 reached NTD 811 million. WT is committed to continuously investing in clean technology R&D resources, with a target to increase R&D expenditure to NTD 1 billion by 2030. The Company will focus on the development and advancement of key technologies for the four major green design goals: energy conservation, waste reduction, resilience, and high efficiency, in order to achieve the target of increasing the share of revenue from sustainable economic activities to 62% by 2030.
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