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    Environmental Management

    We are committed to promoting green environmental protection and energy-saving and carbon reduction actions, seeking any possible climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. MediaTek has implemented the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, following the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) management cycle, using a systematic management approach to maintain consistency between environmental protection goals and execution strategies, and establishing pollution prevention and improvement mechanisms, enabling MediaTek to exert greater influence on environmental protection. In addition, the Company has also passed the certification audit for the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System. The goal lies in the guarantee of workplace health and safety through systematic management.

    Environmental Policies

    We are a global fabless semiconductor company, primarily focused on IC design. Wafer manufacturing, packaging, testing, and other production operations are all outsourced to external vendors. Therefore, MediaTek focuses on implementing green product design, green procurement and management of outsourced vendors, and reducing resource and energy waste while ensuring employee safety and health. This is not only MediaTek’s corporate sustainability strategy but also one of the important assets for future international competitiveness. MediaTek actively implements environmental policy through the following four major management actions, with environmental protection investment in 2025 of approximately NT$91.1 million:

    Regulatory Compliance Green Design Education & Training Continuous Improvement of Resource Management Systems

    Management Action

    Comply with government-enacted environmental protection and occupational safety and health regulations and other requirements, and respond to international green environmental protection and zero-disaster movements.

    Management Action

    Implement green design for energy-saving products using non-toxic materials in manufacturing processes, strengthen green procurement and sustainability management, ensuring products, services, and outsourced vendors comply with international green trends and fulfill environmental protection commitments.

    Management Action

    Strengthen education and training for all personnel in environmental protection and occupational safety and health, increase the number of professional personnel for safety and health management system execution and auditing, and promote bringing personal utensils in employee cafeterias, achieving sustainable living through practical actions.

    Management Action

    Eliminate hazards and reduce risks, continuously improve management systems including ISO 14001, ISO 14064-1, ISO 14046, ISO 50001, to enhance management performance. Require contractors to comply per the "Contractor EHS Management Procedure," ensuring all internal and external members fully understand EHS policies and ensuring the continued suitability and effectiveness of EHS management system operations.

    Achievements

    Zero violations of environmental safety regulations with penalties in 2025

    Achievements

    All Company products comply with RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances

    Achievements

    100% completion rate of environmental and safety training for new employees in 2025; management system internal audit certified personnel distributed across R&D and support departments; cafeteria promotion of bringing personal utensils reduced waste by approximately 45,752 kg per year, equivalent to approximately 16 ton CO2e emission reduction.

    Achievements

    Continued completion of external verification for the above ISO management systems in 2025, achieving the goal of alignment with the latest international management systems.

     

    Note 1: ISO 14001 (previous certification period from August 17, 2022 to August 17, 2025, covering Hsinchu Science Park Buildings A & B; 2025 renewed certification from February 14, 2025 to February 14, 2028, covering Hsinchu Science Park/Zhubei/Taipei/Tainan offices), ISO 50001 (previous certification period from January 13, 2022 to January 13, 2025, covering Hsinchu Science Park Building D; 2025 renewed certification from February 25, 2025 to January 13, 2028, covering Hsinchu Science Park Buildings A/B/C/D/E), ISO 14046 obtained 2025 verification (covering Hsinchu Science Park/Zhubei/Taipei/Tainan offices), ISO 14064-1 obtained 2025 verification (covering global offices of the entire group)

    Note 2: 45.752 kg x 0.34 kg CO2e / kg (Ministry of Environment waste incineration treatment emission factor) = 15,555.68 kg CO2e, which is approximately equal to 16 t CO2e

    Enviromental Expenditure

    Annual certification audits of the ESH management system Commissioned clearance of domestic waste Office and floor cleaning Landscape maintenance

    1,118

    8,504

    65,958

    4,685

    Sewage pool cleaning Vector control Cleaning supplies Total expenditure

    1,808

    2,751

    6,271

    91,095

    Green Bonds and Responsible Investment

    As of 2025, our cumulative investments in green bonds total approximately NT$1.6 billion.

    In 2025, we added an NT$100 million investment in a green bond (short name: P14 TSMC 3A, code: B618E2), which is recognized by the Taipei Exchange (TPEx) as a Green Bond.

    Energy Management

    MediaTek has been committed to energy-saving and carbon reduction measures. Total electricity consumption in 2025 was 187,632 thousand kWh, a decrease of 1.5% compared to the previous year, due to increased use of self-generated solar photovoltaic renewable energy and other carbon reduction measures. The parent company’s power saving ratio reached 16.7% in 2025, exceeding the 2024 target of 16.5%. The Company will continue to plan and implement various energy reduction measures, including upgrading legacy data centers to new immersion cooling technology data centers, expanding solar power plant construction, and renewable energy procurement. The 2026 power saving target has been ambitiously doubled to 35.9%.

    Energy Consumption Over the Past Three Years

    Energy Type Company 2023 2024 2025

    Natural gas (GJ)

    MediaTek

    219

    255

    260

    Subsidiaries

    -

    785

    928

    Total (GJ)

    219

    1,040

    1,188

    LPG (GJ)

    MediaTek

    6,778

    6,050

    6,385

    Subsidiaries

    -

    639

    598

    Total (GJ)

    6,778

    6,689

    6,983

    Gasoline (GJ)

    MediaTek

    238

    220

    139

    Subsidiaries

    -

    232

    242

    Total (GJ)

    238

    452

    381

    Diesel (GJ)

    MediaTek

    932

    897

    420

    Subsidiaries

    -

    141

    18

    Total (GJ)

    932

    1,038

    438

    Purchased electricity (GJ)

    MediaTek

    643,577

    686,171

    675,034

    Subsidiaries

    -

    224,835

    226,840

    Total (GJ)

    643,577

    911,006

    901,874

    Renewable energy (RE certificates) (GJ)

    MediaTek

    0

    0

    1,661

    Subsidiaries

    -

    8,340

    9,582

    Total (GJ)

    0

    8,340

    11,243

    Total (GJ)

    MediaTek

    651,743

    693,593

    683,899

    Subsidiaries

    -

    234,971

    238,209

    Total (GJ)

    651,743

    928,564

    922,108

    Energy intensity (GJ/person)

    MediaTek

    52.9

    55.6

    53.7

    Subsidiaries

    -

    23.7

    23.5

    Total Energy Intensity (GJ/person)

    52.9

    41.5

    40.3

    Electricity share of total energy (%)

    MediaTek

    98.75%

    98.93%

    98.70%

    Subsidiaries

    -

    95.69%

    95.23%

    Consolidated electricity share of total energy (%)

    98.75%

    98.11%

    97.81%

    Renewable share of total energy (%)

    MediaTek

    0.00%

    0.00%

    0.24%

    Subsidiaries

    -

    3.55%

    4.02%

    Consolidated renewable share of total energy (%)

    0.00%

    0.90%

    1.22%

     

    Note 1: Subsidiary data includes all subsidiaries in the consolidated financial statements (100% coverage).
    Note 2: Calorific values refer to the Energy Agency’s 2024 announced calorific table.
    Note 3: Energy usage in 2025 is lower than usage in 2024 due to expanded use of self-built solar renewable energy and other carbon reduction practices; energy intensity has also decreased accordingly.

     

    Energy Management Key Section Areas 2025


    1. Improving Efficiency in High-Density Energy-Efficient Data Centers

    By improving power systems, air conditioning, racks, aisles, and lighting, we’ve broken the limitations of traditional data rooms and successfully transformed them into next-generation, high-density, energy-efficient data centers. These can support the demanding power and requirements of modern servers, becoming a strong backing for tech R&D. The overall PUE of the new data centers reaches 1.33, compared to 1.6 in traditional data rooms, improving energy efficiency by 17% and achieving the gold level of LEED green building certification. The full load power saving benefit reached 20.3 million kWh.

    2. All Operational Buildings Use LED Energy-Saving Lighting

    Before 2024, all old buildings’ energy-consuming fluorescent lighting was progressively replaced with energy-saving LED. MediaTek successfully achieved the goal of LED energy saving lighting in all office buildings in 2024, with total investment exceeding NT$70 million and power saving benefits of approximately 8.4 million kWh per year. The new Tongluo data center completed in 2025 has LED energy-saving lighting installed throughout the building and has obtained nomination for Diamond-level Green Building certification, expected to officially pass by end of 2026.

    3. Solar power system

    Four rooftop solar power plants at Hsinchu Science Park began self-consumption power generation in 2025, with installed capacity of 709 kW and annual generation of 860,000 kWh. Compared to 2025 electricity consumption of 190.5 million kWh, this accounts for approximately 0.5%. After plant installation, rooftop temperatures can be reduced by approximately 3-5 ° C, reducing top-floor office air conditioning consumption. The new Tongluo data center also had a 235 kW rooftop solar power plant installed in 2025, expected to begin self-consumption generation from early 2026.

    Greenhouse Gas Management
    GHG Emissions Scope 1 and Scope 2

    Greenhouse gas emissions are the primary factors for causing climate change. Starting 2025, MediaTek introduced a carbon management system, using the operational control approach to assist in conducting consolidated company GHG inventory and assurance operations. The Company will continue to use the carbon management system for operations in the future to fully grasp the GHG emission situation. MediaTek’s GHG emissions from energy and resource use include purchased electricity, public utilities, boilers, cooling towers, and chillers, with the primary emission source being Scope 2 purchased electricity accounting for 96.29% of total emissions. Despite continued growth in the Company’s operational scale, we are committed to improving energy use efficiency and planning renewable energy use to reduce GHG emissions from operations. Major reduction measures in 2025 include expanding use of self-generated solar renewable energy, continuously improving data center energy efficiency, using LED lighting in all offices, and chiller group co-supply to reduce operating units, thereby improving electricity efficiency. Additionally, the Company continues to monitor climate actions including the global Renewable Energy Initiative (RE100), planning to use 2020 as the baseline year (baseline year total Scope 1 & Scope 2 emissions of the Company and consolidated financial report subsidiaries: 84,545 ton CO2e), reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 by 40% by 2030, and achieving the net-zero emission target by 2050. The Company simultaneously commits to achieving 100% renewable energy for global group office electricity (excluding data centers) by 2030, and 100% renewable energy use for the entire global group by 2050 as a long-term target. Increasing renewable energy use is currently one of the main corporate carbon reduction methods globally and is a necessary means for MediaTek to reduce GHG emissions. In 2026, the Company will expand renewable energy procurement, with planned annual use of 50 million kWh of externally purchased solar power, carbon reduction of approximately 23,700 tons, representing approximately 18.7% reduction compared to 2025 group-wide carbon emissions. The Company will continue to expand renewable energy use in subsequent years to progressively achieve corporate GHG reduction goals.

    GHG Emissions Scope 3-Transportation Shuttles

    Planning to use 2020 as the baseline year, reduce Scope 3 GHG emissions (purchased goods or services, fuel and energy-related activities, use of sold products) by 25% by 2030. To this end, the Company will continue to promote various upstream and downstream reduction measures, working hand-in-hand with value chain partners toward the 2050 net-zero emission target. To effectively reduce carbon emissions from employee commuting, MediaTek proactively implements environmental measures through transportation-related issues closely relevant to employees, reducing transportation carbon emissions by approximately 435 ton CO2e in 2025. In addition to maintaining fixed-route bus shuttles and electric shuttles between offices, 21 electric vehicle charging stations have been installed, concretely responding to low-carbon trends. Additionally, in March 2023, MediaTek partnered with Gogoro to launch the first corporate battery-swapping station in the Science Park, with cumulative carbon reduction reaching 225 metric tons from launch through the end of 2025.

     

    MediaTek GHG Emissions over past three years

     

    Subsidiaries GHG Emissions over past three years

     

    *In accordance with the GHG Protocol, MediaTek conducted a greenhouse gas inventory and reported Scope 3 Category 3 emissions (Fuel- and Energy-Related Activities Not Included in Scope 1 or Scope 2), which amounted to 18,319.348 tCO₂e in 2025. Scope 3 Category 13 (Downstream Leased Assets) and Category 14 (Franchises) were deemed not applicable, as the Company had no relevant activities under these categories. The inventory covered the Hsinchu Science Park, Zhubei, Taipei, and Tainan offices.

    *ISO 14064-1 verification was obtained in 2025, covering the greenhouse gas inventory of all global offices across the Group.

    MediaTek 2025 GHG Emission Type Statistics

    Unit: metric tons CO2e

    GHG Type CO2 CH4 N2O HFCs PFCs SF6 NF3 Total
    MediaTek 89,315.67 242.92 0.61 704.53 0.00 0.00 0.00 90,263.73
    MediaTek
    Subsidiaries
    33,711.21 195.62 0.74 2,623.49 4.43 0.00 0.00 36,535.49
    Total 123,026.88 438.55 1.36 3,328.01 4.43 0.00 0.00 126,799.22

     

    Note 1: GWP values refer to the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report.
    Note 2: For electricity emissions factors, all global locations across the group use the latest officially published electricity emissions factors at the time of verification. For example, in Taiwan, the electricity emission factor for 2024 is 0.474 kg CO2e/kWh.

    Water Resource Management

    MediaTek’s office water is sourced from local water treatment plants. In 2025, with continued expansion of IT data center scale and increased headcount, total water withdrawal was 526,935 metric tons (approximately 527 million liters), a marginal increase of 0.4% compared to the previous year. Although total water consumption increased, MediaTek continues water resource improvement projects with various water reduction measures, achieving total savings of approximately 23,854 metric tons. The new Tongluo data center will significantly use recycled water starting from 2026, expanding water resource savings. For risk control, the WRI Aqueduct tool referencing IPCC RCP 8.5 scenario was used for simulation confirmation, confirming that Taiwan sites are not located in high water stress areas. As MediaTek’s operations continue to grow and expand, water management practices are simultaneously improved. The water saving rate was 4.3% in 2025, with continued water-saving practices in subsequent years to maintain the annual water saving target rate of 4% or above. In addition, all offices in Taiwan obtained ISO 14046 certification for their water withdrawal data from 2023 to 2025. Wastewater is primarily domestic sewage, uniformly processed by wastewater treatment plants through the local sewer system and discharged to natural water bodies without impact to the local environment. In 2025, 287,457 metric tons (approximately 287 million liters) of wastewater was discharged.

    Water Resource Usage for the Past Three Years

    Year 2023 2024 2025
    Water withdrawl (million liters) 507 525 527
    Water Consumption (million liters) 292 307 240
    Water discharge (million liters) 215 218 287


    Note:
    1 metric ton of wastewater is about 0.001 million liters. The reason for the increase in water discharge in 2025 is that some high water-use office buildings have updated to using flow meters for data collection, which can more accurately reflect the actual figures.

    Item Improvement Benefit Improvement Action
    Equipment replacement Water savings of 8,559 tons Efficiency improvement: Using water-saving equipment (including sensor faucets, water-saving toilets, water-saving faucets in recycling area washing, etc.)
    Water recycling Water savings of 1,803 tons Installation of rainwater collection tanks, rainwater recycled to cooling towers for reuse
    Water recycling Water savings of 13,491 tons

    Air conditioning condensate/RO water recycled for landscape irrigation to reduce water resource waste

     

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    Waste Management

    In partnering with the Environmental Protection Bureau, we have become the first company in the Science Park to install recycling machines

    To achieve resource recovery and reuse, we have strengthened waste management with emphasis on waste reduction, effective classification, recycling, reuse, and proper disposal, while continuously improving the environmental impact of waste storage, transportation, and treatment. MediaTek strictly selects qualified waste disposal and recycling partners and conducts irregular audits of waste removal process legality, fulfilling supervisory responsibilities. The waste treatment recycling rate was 28% in 2025, with continued efforts to increase recycling rates or reduce non-recyclable waste to achieve continuous improvement targets. Additionally, we are the first company in the Science Park to partner with the Environmental Protection Bureau to install recycling machines, also providing relevant performance records for other companies to reference. As MediaTek’s operations continue to grow and expand, waste management practices are simultaneously improved and optimized to maintain the annual recycling ratio target of 25% or above.

    Waste Treatment for the Past Three Years

      2023 2024 2025
    Category Waste Type Treatment method Treated quantity (metric tons) Percentage (%) Treated quantity (metric tons) Percentage (%) Treated quantity (metric tons) Percentage (%)
    General business waste Domestic waste Incineration 130.55 59.13% 132.08 56.69% 129.92 57.82%
    Waste paper Recycling 46.32 20.98% 48.95 21.01% 51.1 22.74%
    Waste iron container Recycling 0.14 0.06% 0.15 0.06% 0.00 0%
    Waste aluminum container Recycling 0.00 0% 0.15 0.06% 0.00 0%
    Waste lighting source Recycling 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
    Hazardous business waste Waste electronic components Reuse under general permit

    43.78

    19.83%

    51.65

    22.17%

    43.67

    19.44%

    Scraps and defective products
      Total   220.79 100% 232.98 100% 224.69 100%

     

    Note 1: Hazardous business waste mainly comes from defective products returned by suppliers for testing. MediaTek is a fabless IC design company, so it does not generate hazardous business waste. All waste listed in the table above is disposed of off-site.
    Note 2: Hazardous business waste is first crushed to facilitate the extraction and reuse of precious metals, and the remaining material is then stabilized
    Note 3: Compared to 2024, the total amount of waste in 2025 decreased by about 3.6%
    Dats Scope: Includs offices in Hsinchu Science Park, Zhubei, Taipei, and Tainan offices (100% coverage)
     
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    Environmental Protection and Biodiversity

    Following the official release of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) in 2023, global attention to biodiversity issues has been increasing. MediaTek deeply recognizes the importance of biodiversity to the Earth’s ecosystem and understands the critical role forests play in maintaining ecological balance, regulating climate, and providing resources essential for human survival. To this end, MediaTek supports international initiatives including the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and the Sustainable Development Goals, and published its Biodiversity Statement and corresponding measures in August 2025.

    Habitat Volunteer Action

    MediaTek's habitat volunteer action visited the Nature Valley Environmental Trust base to assist in bamboo forest thinning operations. The thinning area in 2025 was approximately 0.3 hectares, part of the 1.2-hectare trust land managed by the Company. Moderate thinning helps improve stand structure, reduce competition, and enhance health, thereby increasing subsequent carbon sequestration and reducing pest and disease issues. Through hands-on participation in habitat management, employees deepen their awareness and understanding of natural ecology conservation. This action successfully responds to Taiwan's 2050 Net-Zero Transition "Natural Carbon Sinks" key strategic action of "Forest 2-2: Promoting aging bamboo forest renewal to revitalize bamboo forest carbon sequestration capacity."

    Tree Planting and Afforestation Plan

    MediaTek deeply recognizes the importance of biodiversity to the Earth's ecosystem. Since 2024, MediaTek has partnered with the Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Foundation to actively implement tree planting and afforestation plans. As of 2025, 2,000 saplings have been planted in areas including Zhubei Crescent Bay coastal forest and Yilan Wujie coast, with estimated annual carbon sequestration of 13.1847 (ton CO₂e/year). This action successfully responds to Taiwan's 2050 Net-Zero Transition "Natural Carbon Sinks" key strategic action of "Forest 1-1: Implementing new afforestation on national, public, and private lands to increase forest coverage and carbon sink capacity."

    Additionally, MediaTek also plans to donate NT$1 million to the Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Foundation for subsequent coastal forest tree maintenance. Looking ahead, MediaTek plans to continue recruiting employees for volunteer tree planting activities in 2026, jointly maintaining biodiversity and supporting forest conservation through actual participation in afforestation, while raising employees' awareness of natural ecology conservation and responding to ecological conservation principles through action.

    New Buildings Protecting Local Native Species and Connecting with Local Heritage

    Partnering with National Taiwan University to preserve old trees within the Hsinchu High Speed Rail office building site.

    MediaTek's Hsinchu High-Speed Rail office building broke ground in 2024. During the construction period (2022-2027), an industry-academia collaboration with National Taiwan University was conducted to preserve century-old banyan trees and the "Shisanjia Earth God Temple," creating an old-tree cultural park and civic plaza for public recreation, with continued project funding for tree maintenance to reduce construction impacts.

    Environmental Protection and Biodiversity
    Ecological Maintenance and Tree Management Centered on Native Plant Communities

    MediaTek's building constructed in the Miaoli County Tongluo Science Park established diverse biological habitats, preserving 9 existing trees including Trema orientalis, and following the "right tree in the right place" principle, additionally planting 194 native species trees across an area of approximately 0.23 hectares, with estimated annual carbon sequestration of 1.3382 (ton CO₂e/year) Note. Additionally, at the HC-F building in the Science Park, tree habitat remediation and brown root rot disease control programs were conducted, preserving a total of 113 existing precious native tree species including slash pine, Japanese black pine, and camphor trees. The preserved native trees have an estimated annual carbon sequestration of 0.7449 (ton CO₂e/year)Note.

    Furthermore, MediaTek's India office also participated in the "Sustainability Hope Saplings" activity in 2025, with MediaTekers volunteers planting 28 saplings, injecting green vitality into the new office site. In the future, MediaTek will continue to pay attention to biodiversity-related issues, gradually incorporating nature-positive concepts into operations and decision-making processes, reducing potential impacts on the ecological environment through concrete action plans, and working with stakeholders to promote ecological conservation and sustainable development, advancing toward nature-positive goals.

    Note: The method for estimating tree carbon sequestration refers to the data from the "Fourth National Forest Resources Survey Report" and the "National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report - Chapter 6: Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry Sector." On average, forests store about 9.89 tons of CO2 per hectare per year. Also, according to the "Guidelines for Incentivized Afforestation Species and Planting Density per Hectare," for non-timber forests, the standard number of native woody plants per hectare is 1.500. This information serves as a reference for estimating carbon

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    Please refer to the "Environmental Management" section of MediaTek 2025 ESG Report
    for more information.