Eco Responsibility

As part of our commitment to bring eco responsible products to market, Sun has been actively involved in working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on an ENERGY STAR specification for energy-efficient computers. We collaborated on the specification that exists today, and played a crucial role in creating and defining a workstation category within that specification.

The new EPA ENERGY STAR Computer Specification Memorandum of Understanding #4, which will replace the existing specification, was finalized in 2006, and will go into effect on July 1, 2007. All computer manufacturers planning to use the ENERGY STAR logo on their products will first need to ensure that those products meet the new specification by the effective date.

Although the new specification presents several challenges for computer manufacturers, Sun expects to have a number of products meet the criteria and earn the ENERGY STAR logo in July 2007.

Sun, along with AMD, also hosted and assisted in organizing the Conference on Enterprise Servers and Datacenters: Opportunities for Energy Savings, which took place in January 2006.