Exhibit 1.01
Conflict Minerals Report
of NVIDIA Corporation
for the Calendar Year Ended December 31, 2021
This Conflict Minerals Report of NVIDIA Corporation, a Delaware corporation, is being filed for the calendar year ended December 31, 2021 in compliance with Rule 13p-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act.
Because conflict minerals were necessary to the functionality or production of products contracted by us to be manufactured between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021, or the Reporting Period, we were required to conduct in good faith a reasonable country of origin inquiry, or RCOI, regarding those conflict minerals that is reasonably designed to determine whether any of the conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country, which we refer to collectively as the Covered Countries, or are from recycled or scrap sources. “Conflict minerals” are defined in Item 1.01(d)(3) of the Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD, or the Form SD, as columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite, or their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten, or collectively, 3TG.
Based on the RCOI, if we have reason to believe our necessary conflict minerals may have originated in the Covered Countries and have reason to believe that they may not be from recycled or scrap sources, we must exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of our conflict minerals, and file a Conflict Minerals Report to describe our due diligence efforts on the source and chain of custody of such 3TG.
OUR COMPANY
NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to help solve the most challenging computational problems. Since our original focus on PC graphics, we have expanded to several other large and important computationally intensive fields. Fueled by the sustained demand for exceptional 3D graphics and the scale of the gaming market, NVIDIA has leveraged its GPU architecture to create platforms for scientific computing, artificial intelligence, or AI, data science, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and augmented and virtual reality.
The GPU was initially used to simulate human imagination, enabling the virtual worlds of video games and films. Today, it also simulates human intelligence, enabling a deeper understanding of the physical world. Its parallel processing capabilities, supported by thousands of computing cores, are essential to running deep learning algorithms. This form of AI, in which software writes itself by learning from large amounts of data, can serve as the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. GPU-powered deep learning is being adopted by thousands of enterprises to deliver services and products that would have been impossible with traditional coding.
NVIDIA has a platform strategy, bringing together hardware and systems, software, algorithms and libraries, and services to create unique value for the markets we serve. While the computing requirements of these end markets are diverse, we address them with a unified underlying architecture leveraging our GPUs and software stacks. The programmable nature of our architecture allows us to support several multi-billion-dollar end markets with the same underlying technology by using a variety of software stacks developed either internally or by third party developers and partners. The large and growing number of developers across our platforms strengthens our ecosystem and increases the value of our platform to our customers.
We do not manufacture semiconductors used for our products. Instead, we utilize a fabless manufacturing strategy, whereby we employ world-class suppliers for all phases of the manufacturing process, including wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, and packaging. This strategy uses the expertise of industry-leading suppliers that are certified by the International Organization for Standardization in such areas as fabrication, assembly, quality control and assurance, reliability, and testing. Additionally, we can avoid many of the significant costs and risks associated with owning and operating manufacturing operations. While we may directly procure certain raw materials used in the production of our products, such as substrates and a variety of components, our suppliers are responsible for procurement of most of the raw materials used in the production of our products. As a result, we can focus our resources on product design, additional quality assurance, marketing, and customer support.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Conflict Minerals Report contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “goal,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “predict,” “potential,” “intend” and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause our actual results, performance, time frames or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, time frames or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. We discuss many of these risks, uncertainties and other factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q in greater detail under the heading “Risk Factors.” Given these risks, uncertainties and other factors, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Also, these forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this filing. You should read this Conflict Minerals Report completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We hereby qualify our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. All references to “NVIDIA,” “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” mean NVIDIA Corporation and its subsidiaries, except where it is made clear that the term means only the parent company.
OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE SOURCING
NVIDIA is committed to the responsible sourcing of minerals. Our goal is to use only conflict-free 3TG from the Covered Countries in our products. We support, contribute to, and rely on industry-wide efforts to validate the source of minerals used in our products, ensuring that they come from socially responsible sources and do not contribute to human conflict. We’re a member of the Responsible Business Alliance, or RBA, the Responsible Minerals Initiative, or RMI, and the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade. Additionally, we participate in various RMI work groups and align our program with the organization’s tracking of additional minerals and materials and with geographic areas of high concern. We support these on-the-ground programs aimed at improving transparency for responsible sourcing and reducing human rights risks.
DUE DILIGENCE PROGRAM DESIGN
Our conflict minerals due diligence program is designed to conform in all material respects with the framework recommended by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, or the OECD Guidance, as it relates to our supply chain position as a “downstream” purchaser. Summarized below are the components of our program as they relate to the five-step framework set forth in the OECD Guidance:
Step 1: Establish strong company management systems
•Adopted and publicly communicated a company-wide Corporate Social Responsibility Directive, most recently updated in 2020, in which we declared that we uphold the Code of Conduct of the RBA, which includes the standard regarding responsible sourcing of conflict minerals, which can be found on our website at https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/about-us/documents/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 on the source and chain of custody of conflict minerals
•Adopted and publicly communicated a responsible minerals policy endorsed by our Executive Vice President, Operations, as most recently updated in 2022, which is posted on our website at http://images.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-responsible-minerals-policy.pdf
•Assembled an internal conflict minerals team, with representation by NVIDIA’s Operations, 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 conflict minerals reporting template, or the CMRT
•Provided at least quarterly updates on our conflict minerals due diligence progress and status to our Executive Vice President, Operations
•Maintained an independent corporate hotline to allow any employee to confidentially and anonymously lodge a complaint about any matter of concern, including those related to conflict minerals (unless prohibited by local privacy laws for employees located in the European Union)
Step 2: Identify and assess risk in the supply chain
•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 Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, or RMAP, of the RMI, as well as with the smelters that were audited by the London Bullion Market Association, or LBMA, the Responsible Jewelry Council, or RJC, and the Tungsten Industry—Conflict Minerals Council, or TI-CMC. In 2019, the RMI developed an overarching RMI Recognition Process that covers requirements for program cross-recognition of industry initiatives’ comparable assessment programs, as well as other types of recognition including Upstream Assurance Mechanisms and Voluntary Standard Systems recognition
•Contacted non-responsive suppliers, requesting their responses
•Provided suppliers with feedback on responses containing errors, inconsistencies, or incomplete information
•Required potential new suppliers to complete a CMRT for diligence review and risk ranking
Step 3: Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks
•Reported progress on at least a quarterly 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 Covered Countries 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 responsible minerals policy
•Conducted meetings with certain customers and responded to their specific concerns and requests
Step 4: Carry out independent third-party audit of supply chain due diligence at identified points in the supply chain
•Relied on the RMAP, the LBMA, the RJC, and the TI-CMC 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
Step 5: Report on supply chain due diligence
•Adopted and publicly communicated a responsible minerals company policy endorsed by our Executive Vice President, Operations, as most recently updated in 2022, which is posted on our website at http://images.nvidia.com/content/includes/gcr/pdf/nvidia-responsible-minerals-policy.pdf
•Published conflict minerals information in our annual corporate social responsibility report, which is posted on our website at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/csr/
•Filed our Form SD for the reporting period from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021, 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
The contents of any website referenced in this Conflict Minerals Report are not a part of this Conflict Minerals Report.
REASONABLE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INQUIRY (RCOI)
NVIDIA’s supply chain is complex and there are multiple tiers between NVIDIA and the actual mining of the 3TG. Because we utilize a fabless manufacturing strategy, we must rely on our suppliers and component manufacturers, including sub-tier suppliers, to provide us with information on the origin of the 3TG contained in our products and product components.
To conduct our RCOI, we identified our suppliers and component manufacturers of products manufactured during the Reporting Period, and requested that they each provide NVIDIA with a list of the smelters and refiners associated with the 3TG in their products and components via the CMRT. Our goal was to determine whether any 3TG in our products or components originated in the Covered Countries. During the Reporting Period, one hundred percent of our suppliers and component manufacturers responded with the requested information, and we compared their responses with the RCOI data provided by the RMAP.
Our RCOI revealed that, of the 265 worldwide processing facilities in our supply chain which sourced 3TG for our products contracted to be manufactured during the Reporting Period, 44 smelters and refiners were identified by the RMI as sourcing from the Covered Countries and were not solely from recycled or scrap sources. Therefore, we believe that a portion of the 3TG contained in our products or components originated in the Covered Countries, and we are filing this Conflict Minerals Report accordingly.
DESCRIPTION OF DUE DILIGENCE MEASURES PERFORMED
Below is a description of the measures we performed for this Reporting Period to exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of our necessary conflict minerals.
We requested supply chain information from one hundred percent of our direct suppliers that may use necessary 3TG in our products and components to determine whether any of these minerals originated in the Covered Countries or were from recycled or scrap sources. We used third-party supplier management software to track these communications with direct suppliers, automate the identification of quality issues, aggregate CMRT responses for analysis and reporting, and perform additional follow up with those suppliers whose CMRTs contained incomplete or potentially inaccurate information. After reviewing the names provided by our suppliers and component manufacturers against the RMI lists of verified smelters and refiners, we consulted with our RMI colleagues to distinguish those that were actual smelters and refiners from other participants in the upstream supply chain, such as brokers and traders. We provided our list of smelters and refiners for inclusion in the RMAP, which utilized an independent third party to conduct audits, according to the standards of the OECD Guidance, of willing smelters and refiners to determine the source and origin of their ore, as well as whether they were conflict-free.
COUNTRY AND MINE OR LOCATION OF ORIGIN OF NECESSARY CONFLICT MINERALS
Based on the due diligence described above, we determined that the supply chain for our products contracted to be manufactured during the Reporting Period sourced conflict minerals from up to 265 processing facilities worldwide, of which, as of May 4, 2022:
•227 have been validated by the RMAP as “compliant,” including all 44 smelters and refiners which were identified by the RMI as sourcing from the Covered Countries;
•9 were “active” as defined by the RMAP and in the process of being audited by an independent third party;
•18 were classified by the RMAP as not in operation or having temporarily ceased operations, or had been reclassified as a non-smelter;
•One has been identified by the RMAP as a smelter but has not participated in an independent third-party audit, and we are working with our suppliers to encourage the smelter to participate in the RMAP program; and
•10 are under review by the RMAP as no longer compliant:
◦2 were compliant in 2021 but did not renew their audits in the fourth calendar quarter of 2021 and have since been removed from NVIDIA’s supply chain;
◦6 were compliant for 2021 but were removed from the LBMA good delivery list due to Russia-related sanctions; and
◦2 were compliant for 2021 but became non-compliant in the first calendar quarter of 2022, and we are working with our suppliers to encourage the smelters to participate again in the RMAP program.
A list of smelters and refiners that sourced 3TG for our products contracted to be manufactured during the Reporting Period is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
We requested mine or location of origin information, if known, from each of our direct suppliers, most of which do not source directly from processing facilities, for the purposes of determining the source and chain of custody of the necessary 3TG in our supply chain. Based on country of origin information provided by the RMI for RMAP-compliant processing facilities, the necessary 3TG in our products which may have originated from the Covered Countries came from one or more of the countries listed in the attached Exhibit B, and the necessary 3TG in our products which may have originated from outside the Covered Countries came from one or more of the countries listed in the attached Exhibit C.
However, we are unable to determine, as of the date of the filing of the Form SD to which this Conflict Minerals Report is an exhibit, the origin of all necessary 3TG that were contained in the products we contracted to manufacture during the Reporting Period.
STEPS TAKEN OR TO BE TAKEN TO MITIGATE RISK AND IMPROVE DUE DILIGENCE
NVIDIA has been a member of the RBA, a coalition of leading electronics companies working together to improve social, ethical, and environmental responsibility in the global supply chain, since 2007. We have also been an active participant in the RMI, a multi-sector partnership focused on addressing conflict minerals issues and challenges, including representation in its Sensing and Prioritization Work Group, to focus on emerging risks and additional minerals beyond armed conflict and 3TG and outside of the Covered Countries geography, and its Due Diligence Practices Team, to assess ongoing risks with 3TG and future risks concerning other minerals and global regions. Additionally, to support initiatives targeted at improving the traceability of conflict minerals in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa, which includes the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we joined the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade in 2013 and renewed our membership for an additional five years in 2017. We intend to renew our membership again in 2022.
We are also part of the Smelter Engagement Team sub-work group of the RMI, which performs outreach to smelters, encouraging recognized smelters and refiners to participate in the RMAP. By leveraging our membership and participation in RBA work groups, we have encouraged approximately 30 smelters or refiners that were neither compliant nor active, according to the RMAP, to be audited by an independent third party. Apart from our participation with the Smelter Engagement Team, since 2013 we have also contacted approximately 90 smelters and refiners directly to encourage them to be audited through RMAP.
We have adopted a goal to use only conflict-free 3TG in our products. Accordingly, we have implemented a formal responsible minerals policy by which we communicate our expectation to our suppliers that they acquire materials from conflict-free sources within the Covered Countries and to provide their supply chain conflict minerals information to us using the CMRT. We have also informed them that we will assess, and potentially withhold, future business with suppliers who do not comply with our policy. We continuously review our approved vendor list based on suppliers ranked as a high risk for conflict minerals concerns, and request that our suppliers remove from our supply chain those smelters which continued to be non-compliant to the RMAP protocol, “not in operation” or “not recognized by the RMI.” Non-compliant companies are removed from our supplier base accordingly.
In 2021, we undertook several additional activities to mitigate the risk that our necessary 3TG may benefit armed groups and to improve our due diligence measures. We continued to engage with the RMI to encourage one of our non-responsive suppliers to provide its conflict minerals information to its customers using the CMRT. Additionally, we increased our involvement in the RMI’s Smelter Engagement Team, including participation in the Global Research Team sub-work group, which is responsible for researching important foundational work as well as investigating alleged smelters and refiners to determine their eligibility for RMAP. We also continued to expand on our initial investigation of cobalt by leveraging our third-party supplier management software to survey all suppliers for cobalt use and smelter and refiner data.
In 2022, we plan to enhance our conflict minerals due diligence program by continuing to monitor additional legal requirements, including additional potential conflict minerals reporting in the European Union and elsewhere, to determine any future obligations regarding conflict materials and high-risk regions of the world. Additionally, we intend to survey our supply chain for cobalt and mica, both of which have been recently added to the RMI’s Extended Minerals Reporting Template.
INHERENT LIMITATIONS ON DUE DILIGENCE MEASURES
Because of our fabless manufacturing strategy and our contract manufacturing process for our branded devices, our due diligence measures can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance regarding the source and chain of custody of the necessary conflict minerals in the products we contract to have manufactured. Given our place in the supply chain, we have no direct relationships with smelters, refiners, and therefore possess no independent means of determining the source and origin of conflict mineral ores processed by smelters or refiners. Our due diligence processes are based on the necessity of seeking data from our suppliers and component manufacturers and those suppliers seeking similar information within their supply chains to identify the original sources of the necessary conflict minerals. We also rely, to a large extent, on information collected and provided by independent third-party audit programs. Such sources of information may yield inaccurate or incomplete information and may be subject to fraud.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
© 2022 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, BlueField, DGX, GeForce, G-SYNC, GTX, Jetson, NVIDIA AGX, NVIDIA DRIVE, NVIDIA HGX, NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, SHIELD, SLI, Tegra, and Tesla are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
During the Reporting Period, we identified the following products that may contain necessary conflict minerals that we manufactured or contracted to manufacture:
•Graphic Processing Units, including:
◦GeForce;
◦Quadro;
◦TITAN;
◦Tesla;
◦GTX series; and
◦RTX series
•DGX and HGX server products
•Tegra processors and modules
•NVIDIA SHIELD gaming portables, controllers, and Android TV boxes
•Jetson developer kit and modules
•NVIDIA DRIVE PX and DRIVE AGX
•NVIDIA G-SYNC
•SLI bridges
•InfiniBand and ethernet systems, switch systems, and gateway systems
•InfiniBand and ethernet adapters
•BlueField DPU
•Cables – InfiniBand and ethernet optical transceivers, DAC and splitter cables, and active optical cables
The description of our due diligence process above to determine the location of origin of the conflict minerals in NVIDIA’s products is hereby incorporated by reference into this section of our Conflict Minerals Report.
EXHIBIT A
Smelters and Refiners Reported in NVIDIA’s Supply Chain as of May 4, 2022
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| Metal | Name of Smelter or Refiner | Smelter or Refiner Location |
| Gold | 8853 S.p.A. | Italy |
| Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | United States of America |
| Gold | Agosi AG | Germany |
| Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Gold | Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC | United Arab Emirates |
| Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | Uzbekistan |
| Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Corrego do Sitio Mineracao | 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 | C.I Metales Procesados Industriales SAS | Colombia |
| Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | Canada |
| Gold | Cendres + Metaux S.A. | Switzerland |
| Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | Italy |
| Gold | Chugai Mining | Japan |
| Gold | Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. | China |
| Gold | DODUCO Contacts and Refining GmbH | Germany |
| Gold | Dowa | Japan |
| Gold | DSC (Do Sung Corporation) | Korea, Republic of |
| Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. East Plant | Japan |
| Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. North Plant | Japan |
| Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. West Plant | 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 | Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM | China |
| Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | Germany |
| Gold | Heraeus Germany GmbH Co. KG | Germany |
| Gold | Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. | China |
| 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 |
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| Gold | Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | China |
| Gold | JSC Novosibirsk Refinery | 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 of America |
| Gold | KGHM Polska Miedz Spolka 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 | LT Metal Ltd. | Korea, Republic of |
| Gold | Marsam Metals | Brazil |
| Gold | Materion | United States of America |
| Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Gold | Metal Concentrators SA (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa |
| 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 | Metalurgica Met-Mex Penoles 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 | 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 | NH Recytech Company | Korea, Republic of |
| Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Gold | Ogussa Osterreichische 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 | PAMP S.A. | Switzerland |
| Gold | Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA | Chile |
| Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | Russian Federation |
| Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | Indonesia |
| Gold | PX Precinox S.A. | Switzerland |
| Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa |
| Gold | REMONDIS PMR B.V. | Netherlands |
| Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | Canada |
| Gold | SAAMP | France |
| Gold | Safimet S.p.A | Italy |
| Gold | SAFINA A.S. | Czechia |
| Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | Korea, Republic of |
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| Gold | SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH | Germany |
| Gold | SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria S.A. | Spain |
| Gold | Shandong Gold Smelting Co., Ltd. | China |
| 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 | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Gold | TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn | Kazakhstan |
| Gold | Torecom | Korea, Republic of |
| Gold | TSK Pretech | Korea, Republic of |
| 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 (T/a 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 | AMG Brasil | Brazil |
| Tantalum | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| 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 | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | Germany |
| Tantalum | H.C. Starck Inc. | United States of America |
| 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 de Mexico | Mexico |
| Tantalum | Meta Materials | North Macedonia, Republic of |
| Tantalum | Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. | India |
| Tantalum | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | Brazil |
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| Tantalum | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tantalum | NPM Silmet AS | Estonia |
| Tantalum | QuantumClean | United States of America |
| Tantalum | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | Brazil |
| Tantalum | Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | Russian Federation |
| Tantalum | Taki Chemical Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS Co., Ltd. | Thailand |
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS GmbH | Germany |
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS Japan Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | Germany |
| Tantalum | Telex Metals | United States of America |
| Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | Kazakhstan |
| Tantalum | XIMEI RESOURCES (GUANGDONG) LIMITED | China |
| Tantalum | XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tantalum | Yanling Jincheng Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Alpha | United States of America |
| Tin | Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | CRM Fundicao De Metais E Comercio De Equipamentos Eletronicos Do Brasil Ltda | Brazil |
| Tin | CRM Synergies | Spain |
| Tin | CV Ayi Jaya | Indonesia |
| Tin | CV Venus Inti Perkasa | Indonesia |
| Tin | Dowa | Japan |
| Tin | EM Vinto | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) |
| Tin | Estanho de Rondonia S.A. | Brazil |
| Tin | Fenix Metals | Poland |
| Tin | Gejiu Fengming Metallurgy Chemical Plant | 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 | Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Luna Smelter, Ltd. | Rwanda |
| Tin | Ma'anshan Weitai Tin Co., 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 |
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| Tin | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | Brazil |
| Tin | Minsur | Peru |
| Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan |
| Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | Thailand |
| Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | Philippines |
| Tin | Operaciones Metalurgicas 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 Babel Surya Alam Lestari | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Bangka Serumpun | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Bukit Timah | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Bukit Timah | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Lautan Harmonis Sejahtera | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Menara Cipta Mulia | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Mitra Sukses Globalindo | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Prima Timah Utama | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Rajawali Rimba Perkasa | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Rajehan Ariq | 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 Timah Nusantara | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Timah Tbk Kundur | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Timah Tbk Mentok | Indonesia |
| Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | Indonesia |
| Tin | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | Brazil |
| Tin | Rui Da Hung | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Tin | Soft Metais Ltda. | Brazil |
| Tin | Super Ligas | Brazil |
| Tin | Thai Nguyen Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | Viet Nam |
| Tin | Thaisarco | Thailand |
| Tin | Tin Smelting Branch of Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Tin Technology & Refining | United States of America |
| Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineracao Ltda. | Brazil |
| Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tin | Yunnan Yunfan Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tungsten | A.L.M.T. Corp. | Japan |
| Tungsten | ACL Metais Eireli | Brazil |
| Tungsten | Albasteel Industria e Comercio de Ligas Para Fundicao Ltd. | Brazil |
| Tungsten | Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd. | Viet Nam |
| Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tungsten | China Molybdenum Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
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| Tungsten | Cronimet Brasil Ltda | Brazil |
| Tungsten | Fujian Ganmin RareMetal 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 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 | Hunan Litian Tungsten Industry 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 | JSC "Kirovgrad Hard Alloys Plant" | Russian Federation |
| Tungsten | Kennametal Fallon | United States of America |
| Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | United States of America |
| Tungsten | KGETS Co., Ltd. | Korea, Republic of |
| Tungsten | Lianyou Metals Co., Ltd. | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Tungsten | Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China |
| Tungsten | Masan High-Tech Materials | Viet Nam |
| Tungsten | Moliren Ltd. | Russian Federation |
| Tungsten | Niagara Refining LLC | United States of America |
| Tungsten | Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. | Philippines |
| Tungsten | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | Germany |
| Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | Viet Nam |
| Tungsten | Unecha Refractory metals plant | Russian Federation |
| Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten 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 |
EXHIBIT B
Covered Countries From Which NVIDIA’s Necessary 3TG May Have Originated as of May 4, 2022
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
EXHIBIT C
Countries, Outside of the Covered Countries, From Which NVIDIA’s Necessary 3TG
May Have Originated as of May 4, 2022
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Benin
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
China
Colombia
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba*
Curacao
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
Gabon
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guyana
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, Republic of
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mexico
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Saint Kitts and Nevis
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
St Vincent and Grenadines
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turks and Caicos
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela*
Vietnam
Virgin Islands
Yemen
Zimbabwe
* Minerals from this country were substantially transformed before being incorporated into finished products. Such a substantial transformation of the minerals happened outside of the United States in a third country by a person other than a United States person.
