All Samsung semiconductor chip plants get Carbon Trust’s Triple Standard certification Samsung, the world’s biggest memory chip maker, has announced that all of its semiconductor chip plants have received British Carbon Trust’s Triple Standard certification. It means that all those plants are designed to reduce carbon and water waste, protecting the environment as much as possible. The South Korean firm has now become the world’s first company whose semiconductor manufacturing sites have received the Triple Standard certification from Carbon Trust. Samsung Foundry has a total of nine semiconductor chip plants spread across China (Suzhou, Tianjin, and Xian), South Korea (Cheonan, Giheung, Hwaseong, Onyang, Pyeongtaek), and the US (Austin, Texas).