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May 31, 2016 4:08 PM EDT

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM SD
SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT
  
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Delaware
 
001-07882
 
94-1692300
(State of Incorporation)
 
(Commission
File Number)
 
(IRS Employer
Identification Number)
One AMD Place
P.O. Box 3453
Sunnyvale, California 94088-3453
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Harry A. Wolin
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
(408) 749-4000
(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)
 
 
Check the appropriate box below to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:
 
x
Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015.
 
 
 



Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure
 
Item 1.01
Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has filed this Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD and the Conflict Minerals Report for the reporting period January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 attached hereto as Exhibit 1.01 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD and the Conflict Minerals Report attached hereto as Exhibit 1.01 are publicly available on the Investor Relations pages of our Web site at www.amd.com or ir.amd.com.
 
Item 1.02
Exhibit
The Conflict Minerals Report is attached hereto as Exhibit 1.01.
Section 2 – Exhibits
 
Item 2.01
Exhibits
Exhibit 1.01 – Conflict Minerals Report, as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD.



SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: May 31, 2016
 
 
 
By:
/s/ Devinder Kumar
 
Name:
Devinder Kumar
 
Title:
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
 


INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit 1.01 – Conflict Minerals Report, as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD.



Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Conflict Minerals Report
For the Reporting Period from January 1 to December 31, 2015
This Conflict Minerals Report for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD”) covers the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015 and has been prepared in accordance with Section 13(p) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), Rule 13p-1 and Form SD thereunder (the “Conflict Minerals Rule” or “Rule”). The Conflict Minerals Rule, as now in effect, requires disclosure of certain information by companies filing reports with the SEC that manufacture, or contract to manufacture, products for which certain minerals specified in Section 13(p) of the Exchange Act and the Rule as “conflict minerals” are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. These designated “conflict minerals” are columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite and their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten. The term “Covered Countries” for purposes of the Conflict Minerals Rule are the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) and the following adjoining countries: the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Burundi, Tanzania and Angola.
AMD has determined that certain of its products contain conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of such products (“necessary conflict minerals”). Accordingly, we are required under the Rule to conduct a good-faith, reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) reasonably designed to determine whether any of the necessary conflict minerals in our products either originated in the Covered Countries or came from recycled or scrap materials. The following is a brief description of the RCOI process that AMD undertook in accordance with the Rule.
References in this Conflict Minerals Report to “AMD,” “we,” “us” or “our” mean Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and our consolidated subsidiaries; and “armed groups” means an armed group that is identified as a perpetrator of serious human rights abuses in annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices under sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to the DRC or an adjoining country.
Background of our Conflict Minerals Program
AMD has actively engaged with our customers and suppliers for several years with respect to the use of conflict minerals. Our actions stem from our responsible and inclusive culture and longstanding leadership in corporate responsibility.
Industry Engagement. We have contributed to industry efforts to address conflict minerals. In 2015, an AMD employee served as a board member and was Chairman Emeritus of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (“EICC”) and served as member of the EICC’s Steering Committee. Also, in 2015, an AMD employee was appointed to serve on the board of the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (“CFSI”), an initiative organized by the EICC and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative to oversee independent third-party audits of smelters’ and refiners’ procurement and processing activities. Our engagement and contributions have helped the CFSI develop standards and tools that benefit all companies working to break the link between minerals trade and conflict.
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement. AMD is a founder and an AMD employee served as co-chair (with the Enough Project and Responsible Sourcing Network) of the Multi-Stakeholder Group (the “MSG”). The MSG is a coalition of socially responsible non-profit groups, investors and companies. By working with stakeholder groups with different perspectives on this issue, the MSG was able to forge consensus positions on the emerging legislative and regulatory policy. The MSG drafted several letters to the SEC to assist with the development of the proposed and final Conflict Minerals Rule. In addition, AMD testified at a roundtable on the proposed Conflict Minerals Rule in October 2011.
We are also a founding member of the Public Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade, which provides funding and coordination support to organizations working within the DRC region to develop verifiable conflict-free supply chains, align chain-of-custody programs and practices, encourage responsible sourcing from the DRC region, promote transparency and bolster in-region civil society and governmental capacity.
 


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Transparency. A hallmark of our corporate responsibility program is transparency. In addition to the efforts described under “Due Diligence—Publicly Report our Supply Chain Due Diligence,” below, we have also provided briefings for socially responsible investors on conflict minerals and our transparency on this matter and considered their feedback.
Background of our Business and Products
We are a global semiconductor company with facilities around the world. Within the global semiconductor industry, we offer primarily:
x86 microprocessors, as standalone devices or as incorporated as an accelerated processing unit (“APU”), chipsets, discrete graphics processing units (“GPUs”) and professional graphics; and
server and embedded processors, semi-custom System-on-Chip (“SoC”) products and technology for game consoles and licensing portions of our intellectual property portfolio.
For a detailed description of our business and products, see “Part I, Item 1—Business” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 26, 2015, filed with the SEC. This Conflict Minerals Report covers all of our products.
Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry
The Conflict Minerals Rule requires us to conduct in good-faith an RCOI. As part of our RCOI, we conducted a scoping exercise of our supply chain. To determine our supplier list, we analyzed the direct spend data for all of our products. We aggregated our direct spend data using internal software tools and further refined the data to focus on materials necessary to the functionality of our finished products. We also analyzed purchase orders to check for any potential gaps in our analysis. The direct spend data was used to identify our direct suppliers in scope for RCOI review, such as silicon wafer suppliers and outsourced assembly and test (“OSAT”) service providers and providers of materials that are incorporated into our products and that are necessary to the functionality of our finished products (collectively, our “Direct Suppliers”).
To gain transparency and information on the conflict minerals in our supply chain, we asked each of our Direct Suppliers who contributed materials that directly impacted or became a part of our products, to provide us with information regarding conflict minerals in their respective supply chains. To collect this information, we requested that our Direct Suppliers use the CFSI Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the “CMRT”) to identify smelters or refiners in our supply chain which was then cross-referenced with the CFSI data in order to conduct the RCOI.
Based on the RCOI, we had reason to believe that some of the conflict minerals may have originated from the Covered Countries, therefore, in accordance with the Rule, performed due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the conflict minerals in question.
Due Diligence
Design of our Due Diligence Framework
We designed our due diligence measures to conform to the due-diligence related steps of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, Second Edition, including the related supplements on gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten (the “OECD Guidance”). The SEC has recognized the OECD Guidance as an appropriate nationally and internationally recognized due diligence framework for Conflict Mineral Reporting purposes.
The design of our due diligence measures encompasses (i) establishing internal management systems, (ii) identifying and assessing risks in our supply chain, (iii) designing and implementing a response to identified risks, (iv) independent third-party audits of smelter or refiner due diligence practices, and (v) publicly reporting on our supply chain due diligence.


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Description of our Due Diligence Measures
Establishing Internal Management Systems. We have established an internal AMD conflict minerals team that is responsible for the development of and oversees our conflict minerals policy, due diligence and internal management systems to implement our conflict minerals policy. Our conflict minerals policy is available at www.amd.com/conflictminerals. Our conflict minerals team is headed by our Corporate Vice President, Sourcing, Engineering and Operations, and includes representatives from our global supply management, integrated supply chain, public affairs, information technology, law and finance departments. 
Control Systems. The CMRTs obtained from our Direct Suppliers allowed us to gather information that was important for our due diligence efforts, including the conflict minerals contained in the Direct Suppliers’ products and the names of smelters or refiners in the Direct Suppliers’ own supply chain. We elected to use the CMRT because it is an internationally recognized and commonly used tool that facilitated efficient data gathering and aggregation. We also communicated to our Direct Suppliers our conflict mineral policy to source only conflict-free minerals from certified conflict-free smelters.
Supplier Engagement. To identify smelters or refiners that potentially processed the conflict minerals contained in our products, we compared the audit status of the list of smelters or refiners identified by our Direct Suppliers to CFSI’s Conflict Free Smelter Program standard smelter name list (“CSFI Conflict Free Smelter Program List”). We also used the London Bullion Metal Association’s Good Delivery List (the “LBMA List”) for gold refiners. Gold refiners must comply with the requirements of the LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance in order to remain on the LBMA List.
As described in “Designing and Implementing a Response to Identified Risks,” below, we have engaged with our Direct Suppliers by communicating our expectations regarding their due diligence and information reporting efforts in order to improve the information reporting process. Additionally, in order to ensure our suppliers understand and complete the CMRT, we provide training materials and resources like training videos and actively responding to suppliers’ questions throughout the process. We also informed our suppliers of our process to track the submission of CMRTs from our supply base and escalate late or incomplete templates for follow-up action.
Grievance Mechanisms. We established open lines of communication that serve as grievance mechanisms to provide employees, suppliers and others outside of AMD to report violations of our policies or other concerns. Suppliers and others outside of AMD may contact our conflict minerals team to communicate with us, including to report grievances, via a dedicated email address that is published in our conflict minerals policy and in other communications with our Direct Suppliers. We have also actively participated in the CFSI, which serves as an early warning system by sharing information with participants regarding supply chain risks relating to conflict minerals. In addition, our employees may anonymously report suspected violations using AMD’s AlertLine, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. AMD’s AlertLine is staffed by non-AMD personnel, who share any information reported with our Corporate Compliance Committee.
Identifying and Assessing Risks in our Supply Chain. To identify and assess risks in our supply chain relating to conflict minerals, we reviewed and aggregated the information contained in the CMRTs received from our Direct Suppliers. We used a conflict minerals software tool to collect and consolidate information received from our Direct Suppliers to effectively manage our due diligence process.
The primary risk that we identified with respect to conflict minerals was the accuracy and completeness of information contained in the CMRTs that we received from our Direct Suppliers. We received CMRTs with data entry errors, such as missing information and information that appeared inaccurate based on the CSFI Conflict Free Smelter Program List and the LMBA List. In addition, there were smelters or refiners identified by our Direct Suppliers that were not listed on the CSFI Conflict Free Smelter Program List. To address these errors, we made further inquiries, conducted additional follow up, tracked and consolidated the responses to ensure completeness of the responses from our Direct Suppliers that we identified as having provided us a CMRT with errors. While we work with our Direct Suppliers to ensure conflict error-free reporting, we rely on the representations made by them.


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Additionally, we evaluated our Direct Suppliers on the basis of four criteria, identified below, which further assisted us in identifying risk in the supply chain. By ensuring that the responses we received met the OECD Due Diligence Guidelines, we made key risk mitigation decisions to ensure compliance. The four criteria we used were based on the CMRT questions and included:
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Does the supplier have a policy in place that includes DRC conflict-free sourcing?
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Has the supplier implemented due diligence measures for conflict-free sourcing?
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Does the supplier verify due diligence information received from their suppliers?
•
Does the supplier’s verification process include corrective action management?
Designing and Implementing a Response to Identified Risks. Our conflict minerals team held regular meetings to review, among other things, our conflict minerals program, any potential or actual risks identified during due diligence and the status of CMRTs received from our Direct Suppliers.
 
As described in “Identifying and Assessing Risks in our Supply Chain,” above, the primary risk that we identified was the accuracy and completeness of information contained in the CMRTs that we received from our Direct Suppliers. To address this risk, we continue to actively engage with our Direct Suppliers in order to improve the accuracy and completeness of this information.
Independent Third-Party Audits of Smelter’s and Refiner’s Due Diligence Practices. We did not directly conduct audits of the smelters or refiners in our supply chain but relied on the CFSI Conflict Free Smelter Program and the LBMA’s Responsible Gold Programme to identify smelters or refiners who are compliant with their assessment protocols, in satisfaction of the OECD framework requirements. The CFSI and LBMA have independently engaged third parties to audit the smelters or refiners’ compliance with their protocols to demonstrate that the smelter or refiner processes minerals originating from conflict-free sources. However, we have not reviewed the reports of such third parties directly. Instead, we relied on the results summarized by CFSI and LBMA. Through the CFSI, we encouraged smelters or refiners to participate in the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program.
Publicly Report our Supply Chain Due Diligence. We have published our conflict minerals policy and our annual corporate responsibility report on the Corporate Responsibility pages of our web site at http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/corporate-responsibility. Our Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015, which includes this Conflict Minerals Report, is available on the Investor Relations pages of our Web site at www.amd.com or ir.amd.com.
Steps Taken to Mitigate Risk since December 31, 2015
Supply chain due diligence is a dynamic, ongoing process that requires sustained efforts and risk monitoring. Since December 31, 2015, we have taken, and we intend to continue to take, steps to mitigate the risk that conflict minerals in our products benefit armed groups. These efforts have included improvements to our due diligence measures described under “Due Diligence,” above, including continued efforts to strengthen our internal management systems and engagement with Direct Suppliers. We intend to remain an active contributor to the CFSI and to work with industry peers, through the CFSI, to encourage smelters and refiners to participate in third-party audits that use the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program assessment protocols.
Additionally, in 2016 we began using a third party service provider which will help AMD to further expand our due diligence processes. This includes automatic data validation to assess each CMRT for completeness, accuracy, and consistency. Their services will also include increased supplier training, smelter outreach and research.
Results of Due Diligence
To determine the mine or location of origin of the conflict minerals in our products, we relied on the CFSI Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative’s Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry Data (the “CFSI RCOI Data”). The CFSI RCOI Data provides country of origin information for the raw materials used by smelters or refiners that are reported by the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program as being compliant with their assessment protocols (i.e., demonstrated with reasonable confidence that the smelter or refiner processes minerals originating from conflict-free sources). Based on the CFSI


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RCOI Data and the smelters or refiners identified by our Direct Suppliers (listed in the tables below), the countries of origin of the conflict minerals in our products may include:
 
 
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Level 1 countries – countries of origin that are not identified as conflict regions or plausible countries for the export, smuggling or transit of conflict minerals, namely, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Cote D’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guyana, Hungry, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom of Great Britain, United States of America, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
 
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Level 2 countries – countries of origin that are known or plausible countries for the export, smuggling or transit of conflict minerals, namely, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa.
 
 
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Level 3 countries – countries of origin that are the DRC or its adjoining countries, namely, the DRC, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.
 
 
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Recycled/Scrap – smelters or refiners that only process recycled or scrap materials.
Table 1 below identifies the smelters or refiners that were audited by CFSI and reported as compliant with their assessment protocols, in satisfaction of the OECD framework requirements.
Table 2 below identifies the smelters or refiners that are in the process of being audited by CFSI in accordance with their assessment protocols aligned with the OECD framework.
Table 3 below identifies the smelters or refiners that have not yet been audited by CFSI or LBMA and therefore may process conflict minerals from the covered countries. The smelters or refiners identified in Table 3 were subsequently removed from AMD’s supply chain prior to December 31, 2015.
Table 4 below identifies the one smelter or refiner that has not yet been audited by CFSI or LBMA and therefore may process conflict minerals from the covered countries. However, we are actively working with our Direct Supplier to find an alternative smelter or refiner that has been audited by the CSFI as being compliant with its assessment protocols and/or by the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme as being compliant with its requirements. As a result, we are unable to conclusively determine whether the smelters or refiners included in tables 3 and 4 below were used to process the conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of our products during 2015. Because of this uncertainty, we are also unable to conclusively determine whether each of the countries of origin listed above were the country of origin of conflict minerals in our products during 2015, and therefore also unable to conclusively determine the source and chain of custody of those conflict minerals. We also do not have access to audit reports or detailed findings of the third-party audits conducted as part of the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program or the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme and, as a result, are not responsible for the quality of these audits or the audit findings.
Table 1 below lists the smelters or refiners identified by our Direct Suppliers that may have been used to process conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of our products during 2015 and that have been reported by the CSFI Conflict-Free Smelter Program as being compliant with its assessment protocols and/or by the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme as being compliant with its requirements (i.e., demonstrated with reasonable confidence that the smelter or refiner processes minerals originating from conflict-free sources).
 



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Table 1: CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program and/or LBMA Responsible Gold Programme Compliant Smelters and Refiners


Conflict Mineral(1)
Smelter or Refiner Name(1)
Smelter or Refiner Location(1)
Gold
Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
JAPAN
Gold
Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.
GERMANY
Gold
Asahi Pretec Corporation
JAPAN
Gold
AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração
BRAZIL
Gold
Argor-Heraeus SA
SWITZERLAND
Gold
Asahi Refining Canada Limited
CANADA
Gold
Asahi Refining USA Inc.
UNITED STATES
Gold
Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.
JAPAN
Gold
Aurubis AG
GERMANY
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
Chimet S.p.A.
ITALY
Gold
DODUCO GmbH
GERMANY
Gold
Dowa
JAPAN
Gold
Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.
JAPAN
Gold
Elemetal Refining, LLC
UNITED STATES
Gold
Emirates Gold DMCC
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Gold
Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM
CHINA
Gold
Heimerle + Meule GmbH
GERMANY
Gold
Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong
CHINA
Gold
Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG
GERMANY
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
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
Kyrgyzaltyn JSC
KYRGYZSTAN
Gold
L' azurde Company For Jewelry
SAUDI ARABIA
Gold
LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
Materion
UNITED STATES


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Gold
Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.
JAPAN
Gold
Metalor Technologies SA
SWITZERLAND
Gold
Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd.
SINGAPORE
Gold
Metalor USA Refining Corporation
UNITED STATES
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
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 Novosibirsk Refinery
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold
OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet)
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold
PAMP SA
SWITZERLAND
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
Schone Edelmetaal B.V.
NETHERLANDS
Gold
SEMPSA Joyería Platería SA
SPAIN
Gold
Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Singway Technology Co., Ltd.
TAIWAN
Gold
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
JAPAN
Gold
SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold
Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.
TAIWAN
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
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
Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint
AUSTRALIA
Gold
Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd.
JAPAN
Gold
Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd.
JAPAN
Gold
Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation
CHINA
Gold
Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery
CHINA


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Tantalum
Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tantalum
Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry
CHINA
Tantalum
D Block Metals, LLC
UNITED STATES
Tantalum
Duoluoshan
CHINA
Tantalum
Exotech Inc.
UNITED STATES
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
Tantalum
Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd.
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 Specialty Metals, Inc.
UNITED STATES
Tantalum
Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.
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
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
Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda.
BRAZIL
Tantalum
RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tantalum
Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tantalum
Taki Chemicals
JAPAN
Tantalum
Telex Metals
UNITED STATES
Tantalum
Tranzact, Inc.
UNITED STATES
Tantalum
Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC
KAZAKHSTAN
Tantalum
XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tantalum
Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tantalum
Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide
CHINA
Tin
Alpha
UNITED STATES


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Tin
China Tin Group Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda.
BRAZIL
Tin
CV Ayi Jaya
INDONESIA
Tin
CV Gita Pesona
INDONESIA
Tin
CV Serumpun Sebalai
INDONESIA
Tin
CV United Smelting
INDONESIA
Tin
CV Venus Inti Perkasa
INDONESIA
Tin
Dowa
JAPAN
Tin
Elmet S.L.U. (Metallo Group)
SPAIN
Tin
EM Vinto
BOLIVIA
Tin
Fenix Metals
POLAND
Tin
Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Justindo
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur
INDONESIA
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
O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
THAILAND
Tin
O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.
PHILIPPINES
Tin
Operaciones Metalurgical S.A.
BOLIVIA
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 BilliTin Makmur Lestari
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Bukit Timah
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Cipta Persada Mulia
INDONESIA
Tin
PT DS Jaya Abadi
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Inti Stania Prima
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


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Tin
PT Sukses Inti Makmur
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Sumber Jaya Indah
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Tinindo Inter Nusa
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Tommy Utama
INDONESIA
Tin
PT Wahana Perkit Jaya
INDONESIA
Tin
Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda.
BRAZIL
Tin
Rui Da Hung
TAIWAN
Tin
Soft Metais Ltda.
BRAZIL
Tin
Thaisarco
THAILAND
Tin
VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC
VIETNAM
Tin
White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda.
BRAZIL
Tin
Yunnan Tin Group (Holding) Company Limited
CHINA
Tungsten
A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp.
JAPAN
Tungsten
Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.
VIETNAM
Tungsten
Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Fujian Jinxin 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
Tungsten
Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Ganzhou Yatai Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
H.C. Starck GmbH
GERMANY
Tungsten
H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG
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
Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Jiangxi Xiushui Xianggan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Kennametal Huntsville
UNITED STATES
Tungsten
Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Niagara Refining LLC
UNITED STATES
Tungsten
Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC
VIETNAM
Tungsten
Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd.
VIETNAM
Tungsten
Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.
VIETNAM
Tungsten
Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG
AUSTRIA
Tungsten
Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
 
(1)
Information is based on the CMRTs received from our Direct Suppliers. See “Due Diligence,” above, for more information.


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Table 2 below lists the smelters or refiners identified by Direct Suppliers that may have been used to process conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of our products during 2015 and that have not been validated by the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program as a legitimate smelter or refiner, but that are in the process of being audited by the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program assessment protocols (i.e., the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program is in the process of determining whether the smelter or refiner processes conflict minerals that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed group in the DRC or an adjoining country).
Table 2: CSFI Conflict-Free Smelter Program Validated Smelters and Refiners in the Process of Being Audited
 
Conflict Mineral(1)
Smelter or Refiner Name(1)
Smelter or Refiner Location(1)
Gold
Advanced Chemical Company
UNITED STATES
Gold
Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC)
UZBEKISTAN
Gold
Caridad
MEXICO
Gold
Cendres + Métaux SA
SWITZERLAND
Gold
Chugai Mining
JAPAN
Gold
Daejin Indus Co., Ltd.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
DSC (Do Sung Corporation)
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
Faggi Enrico S.p.A.
ITALY
Gold
Geib Refining Corporation
UNITED STATES
Gold
Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
Kazakhmys Smelting LLC
KAZAKHSTAN
Gold
KGHM Polska Miedź Spólka Akcyjna
POLAND
Gold
Korea Zinc Co. Ltd.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat
UZBEKISTAN
Gold
Samduck Precious Metals
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
SAMWON Metals Corp.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH
GERMANY
Gold
Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Remondis Argentia B.V.
NETHERLANDS
Gold
Torecom
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold
WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH
GERMANY
Tin
An Thai Minerals Co., Ltd.
VIETNAM
Tin
An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company
VIETNAM
Tin
Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Company Limited
CHINA
Tin
CV Dua Sekawan
INDONESIA
Tin
Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company
VIETNAM
Tin
Estanho de Rondônia S.A.
BRAZIL
Tin
Gejiu Jinye Mineral Company
CHINA
Tin
Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC
CHINA


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Tin
Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
Linwu Xianggui Ore Smelting Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company
VIETNAM
Tin
Phoenix Metal Ltd.
RWANDA
Tin
PT Karimun Mining
INDONESIA
Tin
Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company
VIETNAM
Tin
Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Dayu Jincheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Ganxian Shirui New Material Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tungsten
Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products 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
Pobedit, JSC
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
(1)
Information is based on the CMRTs received from our Direct Suppliers. See “Due Diligence,” above, for more information.


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Table 3 below lists the smelters or refiners identified by our Direct Suppliers that may have been used to process conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of our products during 2015 and that have not been reported by the CSFI Conflict-Free Smelter Program as being compliant with its assessment protocols and/or by the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme as being compliant with its requirements. The smelters or refiners identified in Table 3 were subsequently removed from AMD’s supply chain prior to December 31, 2015.
 

Table 3: Smelters and Refiners Identified in AMD’s Supply Chain in 2015 But Subsequently Removed Prior to December 31, 2015

Conflict Mineral(1)
Smelter or Refiner Name(1)
Smelter or Refiner Location(1)
Gold
Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Gold
Gansu Seemine Material Hi-Tech Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited
CHINA
Gold
Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Kaloti Precious Metals
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Gold
Lingbao Gold Company Limited
CHINA
Gold
Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Morris and Watson
NEW ZEALAND
Gold
Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
So Accurate Group, Inc.
UNITED STATES
Gold
Sabin Metal Corp.
UNITED STATES
Gold
Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Gold
Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
Nankang Nanshan Tin Manufactory Co., Ltd.
CHINA
Tin
PT Tirus Putra Mandiri
INDONESIA

(1)
Information is based on the CMRTs received from our Direct Suppliers. See “Due Diligence,” above, for more information.


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Table 4 below lists the smelter or refiner identified by our Direct Suppliers that may have been used to process conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of our products during 2015 and that have not been reported by the CSFI Conflict-Free Smelter Program as being compliant with its assessment protocols and/or by the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme as being compliant with its requirements. However, we are actively working with our Direct Supplier to find an alternative smelter or refiner that has been audited by the CFSI as being compliant with its assessment protocols and/or by the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme as being compliant with its requirements.
 

Table 4: Smelters and Refiners Identified by our Direct Suppliers and Not Yet Audited by the CFSI or LBMA

Conflict Mineral(1)
Smelter or Refiner Name(1)
Smelter or Refiner Location(1)
Gold
Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.
TURKEY

(1)
Information is based on the CMRTs received from our Direct Suppliers. See “Due Diligence,” above, for more information.
No Incorporation By Reference
Information contained on AMD’s Web site is not incorporated by reference in, or considered to be a part of, this Conflict Minerals Report, the Form SD accompanying this Conflict Minerals Report or any other SEC filings made by us.
 



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