• | Adopted and publicly communicated a company-wide Corporate Responsibility Directive, in which we declare that we abide by the Code of Conduct of Responsible Business Alliance (formerly known as the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, or EICC), or RBA, including the standard regarding responsible sourcing of conflict minerals, which can be found on our website at http://images.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-corporate-responsibility-directive.pdf |
• | As a member of the RBA, required that our suppliers and contract manufacturers acknowledge and implement the RBA’s Code of Conduct, which includes an obligation to conduct due diligence regarding conflict minerals |
• | Adopted and publicly communicated a conflict minerals policy endorsed by our Executive Vice President, Operations, which is posted on our website at http://images.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-conflict-minerals-policy.pdf |
• | Assembled an internal conflict minerals team, with representation by NVIDIA’s Operations (covering Silicon Products and System-Level Products groups), Legal, Sales, Procurement, Internal Audit 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 RMI, including the CMRT |
• | Provided at least bi-monthly updates on our conflict minerals due diligence progress and status to our Executive Vice President, Operations |
• | Maintained a company grievance mechanism available internally to allow reporting about any matter of concern, including those related to conflict minerals |
• | Internal Audit team conducted a review of our conflict minerals due diligence process in calendar year 2016 |
• | 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 “compliant” designation, produced by the RMAP |
• | Contacted non-responsive suppliers, requesting their responses |
• | Provided suppliers with feedback on responses containing errors, inconsistencies, or incomplete information |
• | Reported progress on at least a bi-monthly basis to our Executive Vice President, Operations |
• | Identified main risks in our supply chain |
• | Contacted certain smelter and refinery facilities that have not received a “compliant” 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 |
• | Reviewed and compared the list of smelters in our supplier base against Office of Foreign Assets Control-sanctioned countries and Specially Designated Nationals |
• | Requested that certain suppliers remove specific smelters or refiners from their supply chain that we deemed to be high-risk |
• | Informed non-responsive suppliers that we will assess, and potentially withhold, future business with them if they do not acquire materials from conflict-free sources within the DRC and do not provide their supply chain conflict minerals information to us using the CMRT |
• | Removed companies from our supplier base due, in part, to their failure to comply with our conflict minerals policy |
• | Conducted meetings with certain customers and responded to their specific concerns and requests |
• | Relied on the RMAP, the London Bullion Market Association, and the Responsible Jewellery Council 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 RBA and RMI |
• | Participated in RBA work groups, including smelter engagement and outreach |
• | Adopted and publicly communicated a conflict minerals company policy endorsed by our Executive Vice President, Operations, which is posted on our website at http://images.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-conflict-minerals-policy.pdf |
• | Published conflict minerals information in our annual corporate responsibility report, which is posted on our website in the About NVIDIA section of http://www.nvidia.com |
• | Filed our Form SD for the reporting period from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017, including this Conflict Minerals Report, with the Securities Exchange Commission and made it available on the Investor Relations page of our website at http://investor.nvidia.com/sec.cfm |
• | Reported supply chain smelter information in this Conflict Minerals Report |
• | 249 have been validated by the RMAP as “compliant,” including all 39 smelters and refiners which were identified by the RMI as sourcing from the Covered Countries; |
• | Seven are “active” and in the process of being audited by an independent third party; |
• | Five have been identified by the RMAP as smelters but have not participated in an independent third-party audit; |
• | Five are not in operation; and |
• | One is under review and unable to participate in the RMAP |
• | The necessary 3TG in our products which may have originated from the Covered Countries came from one or more of the following: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda; and |
• | The necessary 3TG in our products which may have originated outside the Covered Countries came from one or more of the following: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Benin, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Burkina Faso, |
• | Request our suppliers to engage with their supply chain, and leverage our membership and participation in RBA work groups, to encourage smelters or refiners that are neither compliant nor active, according to the RMAP, to be audited by an independent third party |
• | Review our approved vendor list and streamline our supplier base appropriately |
• | Continue to communicate our intention to withhold future business with suppliers who do not comply with our Conflict Minerals Policy, and to remove companies from our supplier base accordingly |
• | Seek opportunities to join new industry and stakeholder initiatives to support the responsible sourcing of minerals |
• | Graphic Processing Units, including: |
◦ | GeForce; |
◦ | Quadro; |
◦ | Tesla; and |
◦ | GTX series |
• | DGX server products |
• | Tegra processors and modules |
• | NVIDIA SHIELD gaming portables, controllers, tablets, and Android TV boxes |
• | NVIDIA 3D Vision glasses |
• | Jetson developer kit and modules |
• | NVIDIA DRIVE PX |
• | NVIDIA G-SYNC |
• | SLI bridges |
Metal | Name of Smelter or Refiner | Smelter or Refiner Location |
Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | United States of America |
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Al Etihad Gold LLC | United Arab Emirates |
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 S.A. | Switzerland |
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corp. | Japan |
Gold | Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. | Canada |
Gold | Asahi Refining USA Inc. | United States of America |
Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | AU Traders and Refiners | South Africa |
Gold | Aurubis AG | Germany |
Gold | Bangalore Refinery | India |
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | Philippines |
Gold | Boliden AB | Sweden |
Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | Germany |
Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | Canada |
Gold | Cendres + Metaux S.A. | Switzerland |
Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | Italy |
Gold | Daejin Indus Co., Ltd. | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | DODUCO GmbH | Germany |
Gold | Dowa | Japan |
Gold | DSC (Do Sung Corporation) | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Emirates Gold DMCC | United Arab Emirates |
Gold | Geib Refining Corporation | United States of America |
Gold | Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | HeeSung Metal Ltd. | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | Germany |
Gold | Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. | China |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | Germany |
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | Turkey |
Gold | Italpreziosi | Italy |
Gold | Japan Mint | Japan |
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | JSC Uralelectromed | Russian Federation |
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Kazzinc | Kazakhstan |
Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | United States of America |
Gold | KGHM Polska Miedź Spółka Akcyjna | Poland |
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | Kyrgyzstan |
Gold | L’Orfebre S.A. | Andorra |
Gold | LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | Marsam Metals | Brazil |
Gold | Materion | United States of America |
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 S.A. | Switzerland |
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | United States of America |
Gold | Metalúrgica Met-Mex Peñoles S.A. De C.V. | Mexico |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan |
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. | India |
Gold | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | Malaysia |
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | Russian Federation |
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. | Turkey |
Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH | Austria |
Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) | Russian Federation |
Gold | OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery | Russian Federation |
Gold | PAMP S.A. | Switzerland |
Gold | Planta Recuperadora de Metals SpA | Chile |
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | Russian Federation |
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | Indonesia |
Gold | PX Précinox S.A. | Switzerland |
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa |
Gold | Remondis Argentina B.V. | Netherlands |
Gold | Republic Metals Corporation | United States of America |
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | Canada |
Gold | SAAMP | France |
Gold | Safimet S.p.A. | Italy |
Gold | SAFINA A.S. | Czech Republic |
Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH | Germany |
Gold | SEMPSA Joyería Platería S.A. | Spain |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Singway Technology Co., Ltd. | Taiwan, Province of China |
Gold | SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | Russian Federation |
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | Taiwan, Province of China |
Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | SungEel HiMetal Co., Ltd. | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | T.C.A S.p.A | Italy |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | Japan |
Gold | The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. | China |
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Torecom | Korea (Republic of) |
Gold | Umicore Brasil Ltda. | Brazil |
Gold | Umicore Precious Metals Thailand | Thailand |
Gold | Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | Belgium |
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | United States of America |
Gold | Valcambi S.A. | Switzerland |
Gold | Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint | Australia |
Gold | WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH | Germany |
Gold | Yamakin Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | China |
Tantalum | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | D Block Metals, LLC | United States of America |
Tantalum | Exotech Inc. | United States of America |
Tantalum | F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | FIR Metals & Resource Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Aizu | Japan |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | United States of America |
Tantalum | Guangdong Rising Rare Metals-EO Materials Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. | Thailand |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | Germany |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Inc. | United States of America |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Ltd. | Japan |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | Germany |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH | Germany |
Tantalum | Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material | China |
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Metals | Mexico |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Powder | United States of America |
Tantalum | LSM Brasil S.A. | Brazil |
Tantalum | Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. | India |
Tantalum | Mineração Taboca S.A. | Brazil |
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | NPM Silmet AS | China |
Tantalum | Power Resources Ltd. | Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of |
Tantalum | QuantumClean | United States of America |
Tantalum | Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda. | Brazil |
Tantalum | RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd. | China |
Tantalum | Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | Russian Federation |
Tantalum | Taki Chemical Co., Ltd. | Japan |
Tantalum | Telex Metals | United States of America |
Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | Kazakhstan |
Tantalum | XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Alpha | United States of America |
Tin | Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | CV Ayi Jaya | Indonesia |
Tin | CV Dua Sekawan | Indonesia |
Tin | CV Gita Pesona | Indonesia |
Tin | CV Tiga Sekawan | Indonesia |
Tin | CV United Smelting | Indonesia |
Tin | CV Venus Inti Perkasa | Indonesia |
Tin | Dowa | Japan |
Tin | EM Vinto | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) |
Tin | Fenix Metals | Poland |
Tin | Gejiu Fengming Metallurgy Chemical Plant | China |
Tin | Gejiu Jinye Mineral Company | China |
Tin | Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC | China |
Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Guanyang Guida Nonferrous Metal Smelting Plant | China |
Tin | HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | HuiChang Jinshunda Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd. | 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 of America |
Tin | Metallo Belgium N.V. | Belgium |
Tin | Metallo Spain S.L.U. | Spain |
Tin | Mineração Taboca S.A. | Brazil |
Tin | Minsur | Peru |
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan |
Tin | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | Malaysia |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | Thailand |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | Philippines |
Tin | Operaciones Metalurgical S.A. | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) |
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 Prima Tin | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Bangka Tin Industry | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Bukit Timah | Indonesia |
Tin | PT DS Jaya Abadi | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Inti Stania Prima | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Karimun Mining | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Kijang Jaya Mandiri | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Lauten Harmonis Sejahtera | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Menara Cipta Mulia | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Panca Mega Persada | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Premium Tin Indonesia | 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 Sukses Inti Makmur | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Sumber Jaya Indah | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | Indonesia |
Tin | PT Tommy Utama | Indonesia |
Tin | Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda. | Brazil |
Tin | Rui Da Hung | Taiwan, Province of China |
Tin | Soft Metais Ltda. | Brazil |
Tin | Thaisarco | Thailand |
Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda. | Brazil |
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
Tin | Yunnan Tin Company Limited | China |
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp. | Japan |
Tungsten | ACL Metais Eireli | Brazil |
Tungsten | Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd. | Viet Nam |
Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | United States of America |
Tungsten | Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | Germany |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH | Germany |
Tungsten | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji | 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 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 of America |
Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | United States of America |
Tungsten | Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Moliren Ltd | Russian Federation |
Tungsten | Niagara Refining LLC | United States of America |
Tungsten | Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC | Viet Nam |
Tungsten | Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. | Philippines |
Tungsten | South-East Nonferrous Metal Company Limited of Hengyang City | China |
Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | Viet Nam |
Tungsten | Unecha Refractory metals plant | Russian Federation |
Tungsten | Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | Viet Nam |
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG | Austria |
Tungsten | Woltech Korea Co., Ltd. | Korea (Republic of) |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd. | China |
Tungsten | Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |