Business Operations
Supply Chain Initiatives


NVIDIA actively pursues social and environmental excellence within our company, which includes our chip and board supply chain operations. We work closely with supply chain partners and vendors to ensure we comply with international standards as well as participate in initiatives that promote a more environmentally friendly approach to building consumer electronics.


These environmental initiatives include:
  • RoHS – Restriction of Hazardous Substances
  • WEEE – Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
  • REACH – Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals
  • Halogen-free compliance for many of our products
  • CDP – Carbon Disclosure Project (more below)
Social & Environmental Responsibility

As part of our commitment to being a good corporate citizen, we have developed a social responsibility policy. A key initiative of our social and environmental compliance program is the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC). Since joining EICC in 2007, we have leveraged our membership as an opportunity to raise awareness among our critical suppliers.

The goal of EICC is to create transparency across the electronics industry supply chain as it relates to ethics, labor practices, health and safety and environmental compliance. EICC members are creating a standardized auditing and reporting tool so that companies throughout the chain are measured in a similar fashion.

To meet NVIDIA’s expectations, our suppliers are required to:

  • Comply with all national and local laws and regulations and require their vendors to do the same
  • Develop programs to comply and drive improvement based on the EICC Code of Conduct
  • Complete an annual Self-Assessment Questionnaire
  • Create a continuous improvement plan to close out open items with a defined timeline and metrics
  • Cooperate and participate in periodic onsite audits
  • Provide clear and accurate reporting to NVIDIA upon request
In 2008 NVIDIA has signed up to participate in three key EICC member Working Groups: Sustainability, Tools management and Learning and Capability.

Product Quality Initiatives

The NVIDIA suppliers that we partner with to manufacture our products are certified to ISO 9001 and ISO14001. As global regulations on product chemical content changes, we are engaging with our supply chain through more training and engagement with our factory base. In order to remain proactive, NVIDIA monitors the chemical content of all of our products. We have robust product compliance and testing programs in which we partner with accredited laboratories and external consultants. We are a member of the Sony Green Partner Program.

Carbon Disclosure Project

We formalized and documented our commitment to the environment in 2006 and since then we have made progress in tracking our environmental footprint. We are committed to disclosing our Greenhouse Gas emissions through the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and have completed CDP 5 and CDP 6 as well as participated in the CDP’s Supply Chain Leadership Project. Read NVIDIA’s statement on the CDP web site.