Our Approach to ESG

We integrate ESG considerations into our product design and responsibly manage the impacts of our supply chain, prioritizing initiatives that are material to our financial performance and long-term value creation.  

Materiality

 

In 2020, we partnered with a third-party expert to conduct our first materiality assessment to identify the ESG topics most important to Marvell and our stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), industry associations and investors. As an initial step in the assessment process, we identified relevant ESG topics through research, peer benchmarking and reviewing external sustainability standards and frameworks. We then interviewed multiple internal leaders and obtained external stakeholder opinions through publicly available reports, ratings and white papers. We used these responses to validate and prioritize a number of important topics. 

The materiality assessment helped us define and set our ESG goals, create a long-term ESG plan, and identify the strategic areas we intend to focus on and prioritize. 

 

Stakeholder Engagement 

 

Our stakeholders are essential to our business success. To this end, we make substantial efforts, both internally and externally, to understand our company’s influence and impact on people, communities and the world through the lens of our stakeholders, including our employees, customers and investors. Stakeholder input directly affects the decisions we make when it comes to our operations, supply chains and products.

ESG Governance

Marvell has a robust system of oversight and engagement to manage our ESG topics, which begins with an independent and diverse Board of Directors. By engaging with our Board and making sure we have proper governance structures in place, we proactively manage our impacts and risks, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and making progress against our ESG goals.  

 

Integrating ESG into Innovation 

 

Cloud computing, 5G connectivity, smart automobiles, the borderless enterprise. These are the megatrends at the heart of today’s connected world — and each of them is built on Marvell technology. With the industry’s most complete advanced data infrastructure portfolio, Marvell is ready to power what comes next. We also recognize an opportunity to deliver greater benefit, while minimizing negative impacts, by proactively and intentionally integrating more ESG attributes into our designs. 

Supply Chain Engagement 

As a fabless semiconductor company, we rely on suppliers to manufacture, assemble and test our products. As a result, the most significant environmental and social impacts from product manufacturing take place within our suppliers’ operations rather than our own. To advance our ESG goals and priorities, we work with our suppliers on maintaining environmental and social industry standards within their operations, and we partner with others to further best practices throughout our industry. 

Marvell’s Supplier Code of Conduct establishes the expectations we have for our suppliers on a range of ESG topics. Our Code requires that suppliers follow the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) Code of Conduct. The RBA Code establishes standards for labor, health and safety, environmental practices, ethics and management systems. By working with RBA to further the use of consistent standards across our industry, we believe we can help improve ESG practices in partnership with our customers and peers and align our approach with industry-wide best practices.