Intel bows to pressure from millennials, will stop sourcing materials from war zones in 2016

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by Sindy Cator on January 6, 2016 at 1:08 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, ces2016, Conflict minerals, DRC, intel

Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich used his keynote at CES to announce that his company will work to ensure all of its products are conflict-free by the end of 2016. In 2014, Intel said it had already managed to eradicate the use of minerals mined from war zones from the microprocessors it uses in its products, which was also revealed at CES. The company said it achieved this by better understanding where its materials came from. Its products will all start to carry ‘conflict-free’ labelling from Q2 2016. Although this is no easy feat, the company is now acting on research it conducted on…