• | Adopted and publicly communicated a company-wide Corporate Responsibility Directive, in which we declare that we abide by the Code of Conduct of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, or EICC, including the standard regarding responsible sourcing of conflict minerals, which can be found on our website at http://www.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-corporate-responsibility-directive-2014.pdf |
• | As a member of the EICC, required that our suppliers and contract manufacturers acknowledge and implement the EICC’s Code of Conduct, which includes an obligation to conduct due diligence regarding conflict minerals |
• | Adopted and publicly communicated a conflict minerals company statement endorsed by our Executive Vice President, Operations, which is posted on our website at http://www.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-dodd-frank-conflict-minerals-position-statement.pdf |
• | Assembled internal conflict minerals team, with representation by NVIDIA’s Operations (covering Silicon Products and System-Level Products groups), Legal, Sales and Corporate Responsibility departments |
• | Established a system of control and transparency over our conflict minerals supply chain by engaging first-tier and second-tier suppliers and requesting relevant information through the use of a third-party supplier management vendor which utilized due diligence tools created by the CFSI, including the CMRT |
• | Provided updates on our conflict minerals due diligence progress and status on at least a quarterly basis to certain members of NVIDIA’s senior management, including our Executive Vice President, Operations; Senior Vice President, Systems and Application Engineering; and Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer |
• | Maintained a company grievance mechanism available internally to allow reporting about any matter of concern, including those related to conflict minerals |
• | Identified relevant suppliers that supplied products containing 3TG by reference to bills of materials |
• | Requested such suppliers to provide information regarding smelters or refiners in our supply chain by using the CMRT |
• | Reviewed supplier responses for completeness and accuracy |
• | Compared information in supplier responses with the list of 3TG processing facilities that received a “conflict-free” designation, produced by the CFSP |
• | Contacted non-responsive suppliers, requesting their responses |
• | Provided suppliers with feedback on responses containing errors, inconsistencies or incomplete information |
• | Held regular conflict minerals team meetings to review, among other things, our conflict minerals program, any potential or actual risks identified during due diligence, and the status of supplier responses |
• | Reported progress on a quarterly basis to our Executive Vice President, Operations |
• | Identified main risks in our supply chain |
• | Contacted certain smelter and refiner facilities that have not received a “conflict-free” designation from an independent third-party audit program to encourage their participation |
• | Implemented a risk mitigation response plan to monitor and track unresponsive suppliers and/or incomplete or inaccurate supply chain information |
• | Requested that certain suppliers remove specific smelters or refiners from their supply chain that we deemed to be high-risk |
• | Relied on the CFSP to coordinate third-party audits of smelters and refiners to validate the sourcing practices of such facilities in our supply chain |
• | Provided indirect financial support for such third-party audits through our continued membership in the EICC and CFSI |
• | Participated in EICC work groups, including smelter engagement and outreach |
• | Adopted and publicly communicated a conflict minerals company statement endorsed by our Executive Vice President, Operations, which is posted on our website at http://www.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-dodd-frank-conflict-minerals-position-statement.pdf |
• | Published conflict minerals information in our annual corporate responsibility report, which is posted on our website at http://www.nvidia.com/gcr |
• | Filed our Form SD for the reporting period from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014, including this Conflict Minerals Report, with the Securities Exchange Commission and made it available on the Investor Relations pages of our Web site at http://investor.nvidia.com/sec.cfm |
• | Reported supply chain smelter information in this Conflict Minerals Report |
• | Obtaining the proper and accurate contact information of the relevant supplier representatives |
• | Distribution of the CMRT to our suppliers |
• | Collection and validation of our suppliers’ responses |
• | Follow up with non-responsive suppliers or those providing inaccurate or incomplete CMRTs |
• | Aggregation of supplier data for analysis |
• | Graphic Processing Units, including: |
◦ | GeForce®; |
◦ | Quadro®; |
◦ | Tesla®; and |
◦ | GRID® |
• | Tegra processors |
• | NVIDIA SHIELDTM gaming portables, controllers and tablets |
• | Tegra NOTE tablets |
• | Icera modem chipsets |
• | NVIDIA 3D vision glasses |
Metal | Name of Smelter or Refiner | Smelter or Refiner Location |
Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | United States |
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co Ltd | Japan |
Gold | Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. | Germany |
Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | Uzbekistan |
Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração | Brazil |
Gold | Argor-Heraeus SA | Switzerland |
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corporation | Japan |
Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. | Turkey |
Gold | Aurubis AG | Germany |
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | Philippines |
Gold | Bauer Walser AG | Germany |
Gold | Boliden AB | Sweden |
Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | Germany |
Gold | Caridad | Mexico |
Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | Canada |
Gold | Cendres + Métaux SA | Switzerland |
Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | Italy |
Gold | Chugai Mining | Japan |
Gold | Daejin Indus Co., Ltd. | Republic of Korea |
Gold | Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. | China |
Gold | Do Sung Corporation | Republic of Korea |
Gold | Doduco | Germany |
Gold | Dowa | Japan |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Faggi Enrico S.p.A. | Italy |
Gold | FSE Novosibirsk Refinery | Russian Federation |
Gold | Gansu Seemine Material Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Geib Refining Corporation | United States |
Gold | Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited | China |
Gold | Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | Germany |
Gold | Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong | China |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | Germany |
Gold | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Industry Co. Ltd. | China |
Gold | Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd. | Republic of Korea |
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited | China |
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | Turkey |
Gold | Japan Mint | Japan |
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Company Limited | China |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Inc. | United States |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Limited | Canada |
Gold | JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant | Russian Federation |
Gold | JSC Uralelectromed | Russian Federation |
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Kazzinc | Kazakhstan |
Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | United States |
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Korea Metal Co., Ltd. | Republic of Korea |
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | Kyrgyzstan |
Gold | L' azurde Company For Jewelry | Saudi Arabia |
Gold | Lingbao Gold Company Limited | China |
Gold | Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | Republic of Korea |
Gold | Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Smelting | China |
Gold | Materion | United States |
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. | China |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. | Singapore |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd. | China |
Gold | Metalor Technologies SA | Switzerland |
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | United States |
Gold | Met-Mex Penoles, S.A. | Mexico |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan |
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | Russian Federation |
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.S. | Turkey |
Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | Uzbekistan |
Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Ohio Precious Metals, LLC | United States |
Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastvetmet) | Russian Federation |
Gold | OJSC Kolyma Refinery | Russian Federation |
Gold | PAMP SA | Switzerland |
Gold | Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Perth Mint | Australia |
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | Russian Federation |
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | Indonesia |
Gold | PX Précinox SA | Switzerland |
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa |
Gold | Republic Metals Corporation | United States |
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | Canada |
Gold | Sabin Metal Corp. | United States |
Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | Republic of Korea |
Gold | SAMWON Metals Corp. | Republic of Korea |
Gold | Schone Edelmetaal | Netherlands |
Gold | SEMPSA Joyería Platería SA | Spain |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | So Accurate Group, Inc. | United States |
Gold | SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | Russian Federation |
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | Taiwan |
Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | Japan |
Gold | The Great Wall Gold and Silver Refinery of China | China |
Gold | The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Torecom | Republic of Korea |
Gold | Umicore Brasil Ltda. | Brazil |
Gold | Umicore Precious Metals Thailand | Thailand |
Gold | Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | Belgium |
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | United States |
Gold | Valcambi SA | Switzerland |
Gold | Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | China |
Gold | Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery | China |
Tantalum | Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry | China |
Tantalum | Duoluoshan | China |
Tantalum | Exotech Inc | United States |
Tantalum | F & X | China |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Aizu | Japan |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | United States |
Tantalum | Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Guizhou Zhenhua Xinyun Technology Ltd., Kaili branch | China |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. | Thailand |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar | Germany |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg | Germany |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | Germany |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Inc. | United States |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Ltd. | Japan |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG | Germany |
Tantalum | Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Hi-Temp | United States |
Tantalum | Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Tambre Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Metals | Mexico |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Powder | United States |
Tantalum | King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | LSM Brasil S.A. | Brazil |
Tantalum | Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. | India |
Tantalum | Mineração Taboca S.A. | Brazil |
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining & Smelting | Japan |
Tantalum | Molycorp Silmet A.S. | Estonia |
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Plansee SE Liezen | Austria |
Tantalum | Plansee SE Reutte | Austria |
Tantalum | QuantumClean | United States |
Tantalum | RFH | China |
Tantalum | Solikamsk Metal Works | Russian Federation |
Tantalum | Taki Chemicals | Japan |
Tantalum | Telex Metals | United States |
Tantalum | Ulba | Kazakhstan |
Tantalum | Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide | China |
Tin | Alpha Metals | United States |
Tin | China Rare Metal Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Cooper Santa | Brazil |
Tin | Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda. | Brazil |
Tin | CV Gita Pesona | Indonesia |
Tin | CV Justindo | Indonesia |
Tin | CV Nurjanah | Indonesia |
Tin | CV Serumpun Sebalai | Indonesia |
Tin | CV United Smelting | Indonesia |
Tin | Dowa | Japan |
Tin | EM Vinto | Bolivia |
Tin | Estanho de Rondônia S.A. | Brazil |
Tin | Feinhütte Halsbrücke GmbH | Germany |
Tin | Fenix Metals | Poland |
Tin | Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC | China |
Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Linwu Xianggui Smelter Co | China |
Tin | Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. | Brazil |
Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | Malaysia |
Tin | Melt Metais e Ligas S/A | Brazil |
Tin | Metallic Resources, Inc. | United States |
Tin | Metallo-Chimique N.V. | Belgium |
Tin | Mineração Taboca S.A. | Brazil |
Tin | Minsur | Peru |
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan |
Tin | Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | Viet Nam |
Tin | Novosibirsk Integrated Tin Works | Russian Federation |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | Thailand |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | Philippines |
Tin | OMSA | Bolivia |
Tin | PT Alam Lestari Kencana | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | Indonesia |
Tin | PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Babel Inti Perkasa | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Bangka Kudai Tin | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Bangka Putra Karya | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Bangka Timah Utama Sejahtera | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Bangka Tin Industry | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | Indonesia |
Tin | PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Bukit Timah | Indonesia |
Tin | PT DS Jaya Abadi | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Fang Di MulTindo | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Inti Stania Prima | Indonesia |
Tin | PT JusTindo | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Karimun Mining | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Panca Mega Persada | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Prima Timah Utama | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Refined Bangka Tin | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Sumber Jaya Indah | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Supra Sukses Trinusa | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Tambang Timah | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Timah Nusantara | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Wahana Perkit Jaya | Indonesia |
Tin | Rui Da Hung | Taiwan |
Tin | Soft Metais Ltda. | Brazil |
Tin | Thailand Smelting & Refining Co Ltd | Thailand |
Tin | VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC | Viet Nam |
Tin | White Solder Metalurgica | Brazil |
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Yunnan Tin Company, Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp. | Japan |
Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganxian Shirui New Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | United States |
Tungsten | Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck GmbH | Germany |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG | Germany |
Tungsten | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Group Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Hydrometallurg, JSC | Russian Federation |
Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Tungsten | Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Kennametal Fallon | United States |
Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | United States |
Tungsten | Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC | Viet Nam |
Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | Viet Nam |
Tungsten | Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | Viet Nam |
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG | Austria |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |