Supply Chain Policy
Supply chains are fundamental to the fabric of modern life and semiconductors require resilient, balanced, and trustworthy global supply chains.
Intel’s strategy is to drive a more resilient, diverse, and responsible global supply chain. Ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, technology, availability, and sustainability is integral to success. Through leadership and collaboration with policymakers, suppliers, customers, and consortia, Intel is accelerating supply chain resilience, responsible standards, and accountability across industries.
With more than 10,000 suppliers, Intel’s supply chain is incredibly complex, and the company supports due diligence processes that follow a risk-based approach to focus on the highest-risk areas.
Key Issues
Rebalancing the Semiconductor Supply Chain
Semiconductor manufacturing has become highly centralized – and vulnerable to shocks – over the past two decades, prompting more governments to adopt strategies to attract semiconductor industry investments. In the U.S., the CHIPS Act has helped renew interest in investing in the U.S., from companies around the world and across the semiconductor supply chain. A 2025 report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) notes that CHIPS Act “incentives have sparked $450 billion in private sector investments to revitalize the U.S. chip ecosystem, setting in motion a tripling of U.S. chipmaking capacity while creating over 50,000 manufacturing jobs and 80,000 construction jobs, which will support hundreds of thousands of additional jobs throughout the economy.”
Governments need a sustained policy approach to continue attracting investments as the semiconductor industry continues to invest in capital-intensive expansions in capacity at the cutting edge of chipmaking and advanced packaging. Intel looks forward to working with governments on policies that expand and diversify semiconductor industry supply chains.
Risk Management for a Trustworthy and Resilient Supply Chain
Intel works closely with suppliers, customers, policymakers, organizations (including SIA and SEMI), and other experts to advance the definition and adoption of practices around supply chain risk management. Effective supply chain risk management practices help companies, and their customers, proactively identify and manage potential supply chain trouble spots and ensure contingency and crisis management plans to meet customer requirements even under situations of stress or failure. Intel supports efforts to help set electronics industry-wide standards, develop audit processes, conduct training, fight counterfeit products, address third-party anti-corruption issues, and more. Intel also works closely with suppliers to develop their supply chain risk management strategies, policies, and processes – including setting goals and reporting on their performance, engaging with and auditing their suppliers, and developing, managing, and regularly testing their business continuity plans.
Through its partnerships, Intel is constantly monitoring risks to essential manufacturing inputs and working with suppliers and policymakers to provide transparency to highlight issues or shortages as they become known and supporting R&D where needed to identify substitutes or replacements.
Responsible Sourcing
Over a dozen years ago, Intel initiated a landmark program to responsibly source critical minerals. While this effort proved effective and shaped industry practice, more work remains to be done. Intel’s 2030 RISE strategy outlines Intel’s plans to accelerate the creation of new sourcing standards. Additionally, Intel will continue efforts to identify the highest-priority minerals to maintain gains and to address new risks as they emerge. from the expanding scope of minerals and geographies. Intel continues working with suppliers and other stakeholders, including the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and its Mineral and Labor Initiatives, to reduce risks of forced and bonded labor, to scale responsible minerals sourcing practices, to advance inclusion and social equity, and to address environmental challenges.
Intel expects suppliers and their suppliers to comply with the Intel Code of Conduct and the RBA Code of Conduct (RBA Code). The RBA Code describes industry environmental, social, and ethical standards, and is consistent with the Intel Global Human Rights Principles, the Intel Statement on Combating Modern Slavery, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.