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Exhibit 1.01

Altera Corporation
Conflict Minerals Report
For The Year Ended December 31, 2014

This report for the year ended December 31, 2014 is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Rule”). The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements pursuant to Section 13(p) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 ("Section 13(p)"). The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. The term "conflict minerals" is defined in Section 13(p) as (A) cassiterite, columbite-tantalite (coltan), gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, as limited by the Rule, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (“3TG”); or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC") or any adjoining country that shares an internationally recognized border with the DRC. These requirements apply to registrants regardless of the geographic origin of the conflict minerals or whether they fund armed conflict.

Company Overview
This report has been prepared by management of the Company (herein referred to as “Altera,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). The information includes the activities of all majority-owned subsidiaries that are required to be consolidated.

Altera designs and sells high-performance, high-density programmable logic devices ("PLDs"), HardCopy application-specific integrated circuit ("ASIC") devices, and our Enpirion power solutions including power system-on-chip devices ("PowerSoCs") (along with development kits, collectively known as "devices"). Altera also designs and sells pre-defined design building blocks known as intellectual property ("IP") cores, and associated development tools. Our PLDs, which consist of field-programmable gate arrays ("FPGAs"), including those referred to as systems-on-chip FPGAs ("SoC FPGAs") which incorporate hard embedded processor cores, and complex programmable logic devices ("CPLDs"). FPGAs and CPLDs are standard semiconductor integrated circuits that are manufactured as standard chips that our customers program to perform desired logic and processing functions within their electronic systems. With our HardCopy devices, we offer our customers a migration path from a PLD to a low-cost, high-volume, non-programmable implementation of their designs. Our customers can license IP cores from us for implementation of standard functions in their PLD designs. Customers develop, compile, and verify their PLD designs, and then program their designs into our PLDs using our proprietary development software, which operates on personal computers and engineering workstations. Our products serve a wide range of customers within the Telecom and Wireless, Industrial Automation, Military and Automotive, Networking, Computer and Storage and Other vertical markets.

Our Supply Chain
Die, cut from silicon wafers, are the essential components of all our devices and comprise a significant portion of the total device cost. Manufacturing our devices is a highly complex and precise process, requiring production in a tightly controlled environment over which we have no direct control. Our manufacturing strategy is known as a “fabless” business model since we purchase our silicon wafers from independent semiconductor foundries (“fabs”) instead of manufacturing them ourselves. Silicon wafer fabs have a fixed capacity that is allocated solely by our vendors. As such, we have no direct control over production costs, delivery schedules, and wafer quality. Currently, we purchase the majority of our silicon wafers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, an independent semiconductor fab. We purchase almost all of our assembly, final testing, and back-end operation services from Amkor Electronics, Inc. in Korea and the Philippines, and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. in Malaysia and Taiwan.

Conflict Minerals Policy
Our policy is publicly available on our website at www.altera.com under"About" in "Corporate Social Responsibility".

Due Diligence Process

Design of Due Diligence
Our due diligence measures have been designed to conform, in all material respects, with the framework prescribed by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas ("OECD Guidance") and the related Supplements for gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten.






Internal Team
Altera has established a management system for conflict minerals. Our management system includes a conflict minerals steering committee run by our quality assurance group and sponsored by Ron Pasek, our Chief Financial Officer, as well as executive-level representatives from our worldwide operations and engineering group and a team of subject matter experts from relevant functions such as external reporting, finance, legal, supply chain, internal audit, and corporate social responsibility. The team of subject matter experts is responsible for implementing our conflict minerals compliance strategy and is led by the quality assurance special projects manager who acts as the executive conflict minerals program manager. Senior management is briefed about the results of our due diligence efforts on a quarterly basis.

Control Systems
Although we do not have a direct relationship with 3TG smelters and refiners, we are engaged and actively cooperate with other major manufacturers in the semiconductor and other sectors. We participate in the Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative ("CFSI"), an industry-wide initiative to disclose upstream suppliers in the supply chain, under the unique member code of "ALTR".

Controls include, but are not limited to, our Conflict Minerals Policy; our Code of Conduct, which outlines expected behaviors for all Altera employees; our supplier agreements; and supplier conflict minerals representations that are further described below.

Supplier Engagement
As a supply chain partner, we meet quarterly with strategic fabs and assembly and test suppliers (which is one of the factors considered in our Identify and Assess Risk in the Supply Chain section below) to measure business performance on technology, quality, pricing, cycle times, and yield improvements, as well as to discuss any other relevant issues to ensure that expectations and plans are achieved through interactive business reviews. Once the suppliers that are in scope were identified, with respect to the OECD requirement to strengthen engagement with suppliers, we reached out to our in-scope suppliers individually to provide a more targeted approach on obtaining the necessary information for our due diligence. Depending on the type of supplier, we used additional engagement techniques so as to further engage with our suppliers regarding sourcing issues. For example, we had numerous discussions with our suppliers to review our expectations on the due diligence and reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) process. These discussions allowed us to communicate our expectations regarding the use of 3TG as set forth in our Conflict Minerals Policy and improve the quality of information received from our suppliers. We also reached an understanding with those suppliers to reflect the requirements for compliance with our Conflict Minerals Policy and on providing relevant smelter information on the template developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition® ("EICC"®) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative ("GeSI"), known as the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the "CMRT").
 
Identify and Assess Risk in the Supply Chain
We conducted an analysis of our devices and determined that 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of these products are found in all of our devices. Altera has four primary categories of supply chain partners directly involved in the production of our devices: 1) fabs that provides wafers; 2) suppliers that provide assembly and test services; 3) suppliers that provide substrates and passive components (such as inductors, capacitors, etc.); and 4) suppliers that provide development kits. Within these four categories, we have identified 26 suppliers as in-scope for our RCOI and due diligence process because they supply essential 3TG materials in our devices.

We relied on these 26 in-scope suppliers to provide us with information about the source of 3TG contained in the components they supplied to us. Our in-scope suppliers are similarly reliant upon information provided by their suppliers. Furthermore, Altera is removed from the actual mining and direct purchase of 3TG. Because of our size, our fabless semiconductor business model, the complexity of our devices, and the depth, breadth, and constant evolution of our supply chain, it is difficult to identify suppliers upstream from our in-scope suppliers. As a result, our due diligence process was confined to these suppliers only.

We assigned a risk profile to each of the 26 in-scope suppliers in order to properly identify and assess the risk in our supply chain that the 3TG contained in our products do finance or benefit armed groups in the DRC and adjoining countries as defined by Section 13(p) and the Rule and for the risk that information received during the RCOI and due diligence process would not be complete and accurate. We weighted risk based on the following factors, which we have listed from highest to lowest weighting as follows: (1) total direct expenditures with the supplier in terms of dollars (which carries the most significant weight in our risk rating); (2) the supplier's strategic value to our overall operation; (3) our ability to easily replace the supplier; and 4) whether or not the supplier is publicly traded in the United States.

Of the 26 total in-scope suppliers, our two largest suppliers made up 86% of our total direct expenditure dollars spent amongst all 26 suppliers. Furthermore, these two suppliers are both publicly listed companies in the United States, and, as such, are subject to Section 13(p) and the Rule. As a result, taking into account these factors and other qualitative factors from our in-scope supplier risk assessment, we assessed the overall inherent risk to Altera with regards to our supply chain as low.






Design and Implement a Strategy to Respond to Risks
In addition to our Conflict Minerals Policy, Altera has an approved conflict minerals risk management plan, through which its conflict minerals program is implemented, managed and monitored. Updates to our risk assessment are provided regularly to senior management on a quarterly basis as part of our conflict minerals risk management plan.

As part of our conflict minerals risk management plan, we have performed the following outreach activities to ensure suppliers understand our expectations:

Training for all of our suppliers that are not U.S. publicly traded companies, and as such, may not be aware of Section 13(p) and the conflict minerals disclosure requirements.
Working closely with the industry through our industry-wide initiatives.
Creating a conflict minerals section on the Corporate Social Responsibility page of our website.

Request for Information
We conducted a survey of the in-scope suppliers using the CMRT, which was developed to facilitate disclosure and communication of information regarding smelters that provide conflict minerals within a company’s supply chain. It includes questions regarding a company’s conflict minerals policy, engagement with its suppliers, and a listing of the smelters the company and its suppliers use. In addition, the CMRT contains questions about the origin of 3TG included in their products, as well as supplier due diligence. Written instructions and recorded training illustrating the use of the tool is available on EICC’s website. The CMRT is being used by many companies in their due diligence processes related to conflict minerals.

As described in our conflict minerals policy, we will further engage any of our suppliers whom we have reason to believe are supplying us with 3TG from sources that may support conflict in the DRC or any adjoining country that shares an internationally recognized border with the DRC to establish an alternative source of 3TG that does not support such conflict, as provided in the OECD guidance. We have not determined that it is necessary to establish an alternative source of 3TG at this time.

Due Diligence Results

Survey Responses
As this was the second year of adoption of the Rule, we made the determination to survey all 26 of our in-scope suppliers. We received complete responses from 15 out of the 26 suppliers surveyed. The 15 suppliers who provided complete responses represent 99% of our total direct expenditure dollars spent. We have not received complete survey responses from 11 additional suppliers who do not represent a material amount of our total direct expenditure dollars spent and represent only 9% of our total risk profile rating. We reviewed the responses received against criteria that we developed based upon the OECD Guidance to determine whether further engagement with our suppliers was needed. These criteria included the consideration of untimely or incomplete responses, as well as identifying inconsistencies within the reported data in the CMRT. We have worked directly with these suppliers to obtain revised responses. After the RCOI process was completed, we began our due diligence process with regard to reasonably determining the source and chain of custody of the necessary 3TG, including the determination of the mines or locations of origin of the 3TG in our supply chain. Altera has designed its own due diligence questionnaires based on the OECD Guidance.

The responses from our suppliers listed 303 entities as smelters or refiners of 3TG in their supply chains. 121 of these listed entities were identified as certified conflict-free by CFSI. We compared the listed entities to the CFSI list of smelters, and we confirmed that all conflict-free entities reported by our suppliers were in fact listed as conflict-free by CFSI. The remaining 182 of the listed entities were not validated as being conflict-free smelters or refiners. Altera supports the refinement and expansion of the list of participating smelters through our membership in the CFSI program. Following is a summary of the breakdown of smelters used by our in-scope suppliers broken out by mineral type:

Metals
Total Known Smelters Used
Total Known Smelters not on CFSI
Tungsten
46
37
Tantalum
42
4
Tin
93
71
Gold
122
70
Total
303
182

None of our suppliers provided information at a part number level. All of the suppliers provided data at a company or divisional level or were unable to specify the specific smelters or refiners used for 3TG contained in components supplied to Altera. As





such, we are unable to determine whether any of the 3TG reported by the suppliers contained in components or parts supplied to us came solely from the validated smelters and refiners. We have engaged our suppliers to further demonstrate that the 3TG supplied by unverified smelters and refiners came from either (i) recycled or scrap sources or (ii) conflict-free smelters and refiners.

Efforts to determine mine or location of origin
Through our participation in CFSI, the OECD implementation programs, and requesting our suppliers to complete the CMRT, we have determined that seeking information about 3TG smelters and refiners in our supply chain represents a reasonable approach we can make to determine the mines or locations of origin for 3TG in our supply chain.

Smelters or Refiners
The following table lists the facilities which, to the extent known, processed the necessary conflict minerals in our devices based upon responses from our in-scope suppliers as of December 31, 2014.



Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Gold
Aida chemical industries Co.,Ltd.
 
Gold
Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.
*
Gold
Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC)
 
Gold
AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Minerção
*
Gold
Argor-Heraeus SA
*
Gold
Asahi Pretec Corporation
*
Gold
Asaka Riken Co Ltd
 
Gold
Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.
 
Gold
Aurubis AG
*
Gold
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)
 
Gold
Bauer Walser AG
 
Gold
Boliden AB
*
Gold
C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG
 
Gold
Caridad
 
Gold
CCR Refinery – Glencore Canada Corporation
*
Gold
Cendres & Métaux SA
 
Gold
Chimet S.p.A.
*
Gold
China National Gold Group Corporation
 
Gold
Chugai Mining
 
Gold
Codelco
 
Gold
Colt Refining
 
Gold
Daejin Indus Co. Ltd
 
Gold
DaeryungENC
 
Gold
Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd.
 
Gold
Do Sung Corporation
 
Gold
Doduco
 
Gold
Dongguan Standard Electronic Material.Co.,Ltd
 
Gold
Dowa
*
Gold
Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.
*
Gold
FSE Novosibirsk Refinery
 
Gold
Gansu Seemine Material Hi-Tech Co Ltd
 
Gold
Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited
 





Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Gold
Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd.
 
Gold
Heimerle + Meule GmbH
*
Gold
Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong
*
Gold
Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG
*
Gold
Hunan Chenzhou Mining Industry Group
 
Gold
Hwasung CJ Co. Ltd
 
Gold
Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited
 
Gold
Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
*
Gold
Istanbul Gold Refinery
*
Gold
Japan Mint
*
Gold
Jiangxi Copper Company Limited
 
Gold
Johnson Matthey Inc
*
Gold
Johnson Matthey Ltd
*
Gold
JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant
 
Gold
JSC Uralectromed
 
Gold
JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.
*
Gold
Kazzinc Ltd
*
Gold
Kennecott Utah Copper LLC
*
Gold
Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd
*
Gold
Korea Metal Co. Ltd
 
Gold
Kunshan Jinli chemical industry reagents co.,Ltd.
 
Gold
Kyrgyzaltyn JSC
 
Gold
L' azurde Company For Jewelry
 
Gold
Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co. Ltd.
 
Gold
LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.
*
Gold
Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Metal Smelt Co Ltd
 
Gold
Materion
*
Gold
Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.
*
Gold
Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd
*
Gold
Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
*
Gold
Metalor Technologies Ltd. (Suzhou)
 
Gold
Metalor Technologies SA
*
Gold
Metalor USA Refining Corporation
*
Gold
Met-Mex Peñoles, S.A.
*
Gold
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
*
Gold
Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.
*
Gold
MK electron
 
Gold
Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant
 
Gold
N.E.Chemcat Corporation
 
Gold
Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.
*
Gold
Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat
 
Gold
Nihon Material Co. LTD
*
Gold
Ningbo Kangqiang
 
Gold
Ohio Precious Metals, LLC
*
Gold
Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd
*





Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Gold
OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastvetmet)
 
Gold
OJSC Kolyma Refinery
 
Gold
Pamp Sa
*
Gold
Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co Ltd
 
Gold
Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals
 
Gold
PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk
 
Gold
PX Précinox SA
*
Gold
Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd
*
Gold
Royal Canadian Mint
*
Gold
Sabin Metal Corp.
 
Gold
Samwon Metals Corp.
 
Gold
Schone Edelmetaal
*
Gold
Scotia Mocatta
 
Gold
Sempsa Joyería Platería SA
*
Gold
Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co. Ltd
 
Gold
Shanghai Gold exchange
 
Gold
ShenZhen TianCheng Chemical Co Ltd
 
Gold
So Accurate Group, Inc.
 
Gold
Soe Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals
 
Gold
Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.
*
Gold
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
*
Gold
Suzhou Xingrui Noble
 
Gold
Tai zhou chang san Jiao electron Co.,Ltd
 
Gold
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
*
Gold
Technic Inc
 
Gold
The Great Wall Gold and Silver Refinery of China
 
Gold
The Hutti Gold Company
 
Gold
The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd
 
Gold
Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd
*
Gold
Tongling nonferrous Metals Group Co.,Ltd
 
Gold
Torecom
 
Gold
Umicore Brasil Ltda
*
Gold
Umicore Precious Metals Thailand
*
Gold
Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining
*
Gold
United Precious Metal Refining, Inc.
*
Gold
Valcambi SA
*
Gold
Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint
*
Gold
Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd.
 
Gold
Yantai Guodasafina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co. Ltd.
 
Gold
Yantai Zhaojin Lai Fuk Precious Metals Ltd
 
Gold
Yokohama Metal Co.,Ltd.
 
Gold
Yunnan Copper Industry Co Ltd
 
Gold
Zhongshan Public Security Bureau, Guangdong Province ,China
 
Gold
Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation
 





Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Gold
Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd
 
Tantalum
Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry
*
Tantalum
Duoluoshan
*
Tantalum
Exotech Inc.
*
Tantalum
F&X Electro-Materials Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Gannon & Scott
 
Tantalum
Global Advanced Metals Aizu
*
Tantalum
Global Advanced Metals Boyertown
*
Tantalum
Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Guizhou Zhenhua Xinyun Technology Ltd., Kaili branch
*
Tantalum
H.C. Starck Co., Ltd.
*
Tantalum
H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar
*
Tantalum
H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg
*
Tantalum
H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH
*
Tantalum
H.C. Starck Inc.
*
Tantalum
H.C. Starck Ltd.
*
Tantalum
H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG
*
Tantalum
Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Hi-Temp
*
Tantalum
JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Kemet Blue Metals
*
Tantalum
Kemet Blue Powder
*
Tantalum
King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd
 
Tantalum
LSM Brasil S.A.
*
Tantalum
Metallurgical Products India (Pvt.) Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Mineração Taboca S.A.
*
Tantalum
Mitsui Mining & Smelting
*
Tantalum
Molycorp Silmet A.S.
*
Tantalum
Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.
*
Tantalum
Plansee SE Liezen
*
Tantalum
Plansee SE Reutte
*
Tantalum
QuantumClean
*
Tantalum
RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd
*
Tantalum
Shanghai Jiangxi Metals Co. Ltd
 
Tantalum
Solikamsk Metal Works
*
Tantalum
Taki Chemicals
*
Tantalum
Tantalite Resources
 
Tantalum
Telex
*
Tantalum
Ulba
*
Tantalum
Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd
*
Tantalum
Zhuzhou Cement Carbide
*
Tin
Alpha
*
Tin
American Iron and Metal
 





Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Tin
CFC Cooperative dos Fundidores de Cassiterita da Amazônia Ltda.
 
Tin
China Rare Metal Materials Company
 
Tin
China Tin Group Co., Ltd.
 
Tin
CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co. Ltd.
 
Tin
Cooper Santa
 
Tin
CV Duta Putra Bangka
 
Tin
CV JusTindo
 
Tin
CV Makmur Jaya
 
Tin
CV Nurjanah
 
Tin
CV Serumpun Sebalai
 
Tin
CV United Smelting
*
Tin
Dowa
*
Tin
EM Vinto
 
Tin
Estanho de Rondônia S.A.
 
Tin
Feinhütte Halsbrücke GmbH
 
Tin
Fenix Metals
 
Tin
Gejiu Jin Ye Mineral Co., Ltd.
 
Tin
Gejiu Jin Ye Mineral Co., Ltd.
 
Tin
Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co. Ltd.
*
Tin
Gejiu YunXin Colored Electrolysis Ltd
 
Tin
Gejiu Zi-Li
 
Tin
Gold Bell Group
 
Tin
Guangxi Huaxi Group Co.,Ltd
 
Tin
Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co. Ltd
 
Tin
Ibf Ind Brasileira De Ferroligas Ltda
 
Tin
Jia Tian
 
Tin
Jiangxi Nanshan
 
Tin
Kai Unita Trade Limited Liability Company
 
Tin
Linwu Xianggui Smelter Co
 
Tin
Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda
*
Tin
Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)
*
Tin
MCP Metal Specialist Inc.
 
Tin
Melt Metais e Ligas S/A
 
Tin
Metallic Resources Inc
 
Tin
Metallo Chimique
 
Tin
Mineração Taboca S.A.
*
Tin
Minmetals Ganzhou Tin Co. Ltd.
 
Tin
Minsur
*
Tin
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
*
Tin
Nathan Trotter & Co.,Inc.
 
Tin
Nghe Tin Non-Ferrous Metal
 
Tin
Novosibirsk Integrated Tin Works
 
Tin
O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
 
Tin
OMSA
*
Tin
Poongsan Corporation
 





Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Tin
PT Alam Lestari Kencana
 
Tin
PT Artha Cipta Langgeng
 
Tin
PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya
*
Tin
PT Babel Inti Perkasa
*
Tin
PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari
 
Tin
PT Bangka Kudai Tin
 
Tin
PT Bangka Putra Karya
 
Tin
PT Bangka Timah Utama Sejahtera
 
Tin
PT Bangka Tin Industry
*
Tin
PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera
 
Tin
PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari
 
Tin
PT Bukit Timah
*
Tin
PT DS Jaya Abadi
*
Tin
PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri
 
Tin
PT Fang Di MulTindo
 
Tin
PT Hanjaya Perkasa Metals
 
Tin
PT HP Metals Indonesia
 
Tin
PT Inti Stania Prima
 
Tin
PT Karimun Mining
 
Tin
PT Koba Tin
 
Tin
PT Mitra Stania Prima
 
Tin
PT Panca Mega Persada
 
Tin
PT Pelat Timah Nusantara Tbk
 
Tin
PT Prima Timah Utama
 
Tin
PT Refined Bangka Tin
*
Tin
PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa
 
Tin
PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa
*
Tin
PT Sumber Jaya Indah
 
Tin
PT Supra Sukses Trinusa
 
Tin
PT Tambang Timah
*
Tin
PT Timah (Persero), Tbk
*
Tin
PT Tinindo Inter Nusa
 
Tin
PT Tommy Utama
 
Tin
PT Yinchendo Mining Industry
 
Tin
Rui Da Hung
 
Tin
Samhwa Non-Ferrous Metal. Inc Co.,Ltd
 
Tin
Soft Metais, Ltda.
 
Tin
Thaisarco
*
Tin
Tongding Metal Material Co.,Ltd.
 
Tin
Traxys
 
Tin
WC Heraeus Hanau
 
Tin
Westfalenzinn
 
Tin
White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda.
*
Tin
Wilhelm Westmetall
 
Tin
Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co.,Ltd.
 





Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Tin
Yunnan Tin Company, Ltd.
*
Tungsten
A.L.M.T. Corp.
 
Tungsten
Air Products
 
Tungsten
Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
China Minmetals Nonferrous Metals.Co.,Ltd
 
Tungsten
Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co Ltd
 
Tungsten
Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.
*
Tungsten
Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.
*
Tungsten
Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd.
*
Tungsten
Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.
*
Tungsten
Gnazhou Grand Sea W & Mo Group CO. Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Golden Egret Special Allloy Coop.
 
Tungsten
Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
H.C. Starck GmbH
 
Tungsten
H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG
 
Tungsten
Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Hi-Temp
 
Tungsten
Hunan Chenzhou Mining Group Co
 
Tungsten
Hunan Chun-Chang Nonferrous Smelting & Concentrating Co., Ltd.
*
Tungsten
Japan New Metals Co Ltd
*
Tungsten
Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Jiangxi Richsea New Materials Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Kennametal Fallon
 
Tungsten
Kennametal Huntsville
 
Tungsten
Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.
*
Tungsten
Materion
 
Tungsten
Nanchang Cemented Carbide Limited Liability Company
 
Tungsten
Ninghua Xingluokeng Tungsten Mine Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC
 
Tungsten
Sichuan Metals & Materials Imp & Exp Co
 
Tungsten
Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd
 
Tungsten
Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG
 
Tungsten
WOLFRAM Company CJSC
 
Tungsten
Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.
*
Tungsten
Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd
*





Metal
Standard Smelter Names
Certified by CFSI as Conflict-Free
Tungsten
Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd.
 
Tungsten
Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group Co Ltd
 

*
Denotes smelters and refiners which have received a "conflict free" designation from the CFSI independent audit program as of December 31, 2014.

Countries of origin of the 3TG these smelters or refiners process are believed to include: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Angola, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burundi, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Cote D'Ivoire, Czech Republic, DRC, Djibouti, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos People’s Democratic Republic, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Republic of Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The CFSI independent audit program collects evidence from smelters and refiners demonstrating that responsible sourcing procedures and systems have been implemented. The CFSI works with complementary programs in Central Africa to validate conflict-free mine sites and trade routes. We continue to engage with the CFSI to encourage further improvement and reliability. We believe that independent third-party audit programs provide a reasonable basis for companies such as us to conclude that smelters and refiners have procedures and systems for determining if the smelters and refiners process 3TG that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the DRC.

When comparing this year's due diligence process to last year, the number of smelters or refiners certified as conflict-free by CFSI as a percentage of total reported smelters or refiners of 3TG in our suppliers' supply chains decreased from 49% in 2013 to 40% in calendar year 2014. The decrease in the percentage is primarily attributed to incorporating suppliers relating to acquired subsidiaries in the past year. As a result of this inclusion, the number of our in-scope suppliers increased from 11 in 2013 to 26 in 2014. We also note our suppliers have identified new smelters or refiners from last year as a result of improved reporting year over year. Going forward, we will continue to work with all of our in-scope suppliers throughout our supply chain to re-validate, improve, and refine their reported information, taking into account supply chain fluctuations and other changes in status or scope and relationships over time.

Assessment
Altera has determined in good faith that for the period covered in this report, our due diligence process resulted in a DRC conflict undeterminable status with respect to our devices.

In accordance with the OECD Guidance and the Rule, this report is available on our website at www.altera.com under "About" in "Corporate Social Responsibility".