EX-1.01 2 ea179262ex1-01_peraso.htm CONFLICT MINERALS REPORT OF PERASO INC. FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2022

Exhibit 1.01

Peraso Inc.

Conflict Minerals Report

For the year ended December 31, 2022

This Conflict Minerals Report of Peraso Inc. (“Peraso” or the “Company”) for the reporting period January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 is provided in accordance with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule 13p-1”). Rule 13p-1 was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to Conflict Minerals, as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Conflict Minerals are defined as columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (collectively, “3TG”), that originate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (collectively, the “Covered Countries”).

The Company is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the development of millimeter wave, which is generally described as the frequency band from 24 Gigahertz (“GHz”) to 300GHz, wireless technology. The Company also manufactures and sells high-performance memory semiconductor devices for a wide range of markets and receives royalties from licensees of its memory technology. The Company derives revenue from selling its semiconductor devices and antenna modules, performance of non-recurring engineering services and licensing of its technologies. As a fabless semiconductor company, Peraso does not purchase directly from smelters or refineries and must rely upon its manufacturing subcontractors to: (i) identify whether 3TG minerals are used in the manufacture of Peraso’s products, (ii) identify the sources of 3TG used in the manufacture of Peraso products, and (iii) declare whether any of the 3TG minerals used is a Conflict Mineral. Peraso has determined that at least one or more of the 3TG is necessary to produce one or more Peraso integrated circuit products. In particular, the Company believes some material used by its foundry to produce the silicon wafers for one or more of the Company’s products contains at least one of the 3TG.

The Company has conducted a good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding the 3TG contained in its products, which inquiry was designed to determine (a) whether any of the 3TG contained in its products originated in the Covered Countries and (b) whether any of the 3TG are from recycled or scrap sources. The Company also exercised due diligence on the chain of custody and source of the 3TG.

Peraso’s due diligence measures were based on the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and Global e-Sustainability (“EICC/GeSI”) initiative with the smelters and refiners of Conflict Minerals that provide 3TG to the Company’s suppliers. Peraso’s due diligence measures were comprised of:

● conducting a supply-chain survey with direct suppliers of materials containing 3TG using the standard Conflict Minerals Reporting Template designed by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (“RMI”), which is an initiative of the EICC/GeSi, to identify the smelters and refiners;

● comparing the smelters and refiners identified in the supply-chain survey against the list of smelter facilities which have been identified as “conflict-free” by programs such as the EICC/GeSI Conflict Free Smelter (“CFS”) program for 3TG; and

● reviewing direct suppliers’ conflict minerals policies to ensure that they are encouraging their suppliers to not source from refiners, smelters and other suppliers that may use 3TG originating from the Covered Countries.

Because some of the information provided by Peraso suppliers is incomplete and not all smelters have been identified under the CFS program as conflict-free, Peraso is unable to determine if its products are entirely conflict-free; however, the Company does not have any information indicating that any of the 3TG used by Peraso’s manufacturing subcontractors originate from the Covered Countries.

Based on the information provided by the Company’s suppliers and obtained through the due diligence process, set forth below is a list of CFS program-certified conflict-free facilities identified by the Company’s supply chain:

Mineral		Smelter or Refiner Facility Name		Smelter ID
Gold		8853 S.p.A.		CID002763
Gold		Advanced Chemical Company		CID000015
Gold		Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.		CID000019
Gold		Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC		CID002560
Gold		Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.		CID000035
Gold		Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC)		CID000041
Gold		AngloGold Ashanti Corrego do Sitio Mineracao		CID000058
Gold		Argor-Heraeus S.A.		CID000077
Gold		Asahi Pretec Corp.		CID000082
Gold		Asahi Refining Canada Ltd.		CID000924
Gold		Asahi Refining USA Inc.		CID000920
Gold		Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.		CID000090
Gold		Aurubis AG		CID000113
Gold		Bangalore Refinery		CID002863
Gold		Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)		CID000128
Gold		Boliden AB		CID000157
Gold		C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG		CID000176
Gold		CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation		CID000185
Gold		Cendres + Metaux S.A.		CID000189
Gold		Chimet S.p.A.		CID000233
Gold		Chugai Mining		CID000264
Gold		Dowa		CID000401
Gold		DSC (Do Sung Corporation)		CID000359
Gold		Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. East Plant		CID000425
Gold		Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. North Plant		CID003424
Gold		Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. West Plant		CID003425
Gold		Emirates Gold DMCC		CID002561
Gold		Geib Refining Corporation		CID002459
Gold		Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd.		CID002243
Gold		Heimerle + Meule GmbH		CID000694
Gold		Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd.		CID000707
Gold		Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG		CID000711
Gold		Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd.		CID000801
Gold		Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.		CID000807
Gold		Istanbul Gold Refinery		CID000814
Gold		Italpreziosi		CID002765
Gold		Japan Mint		CID000823
Gold		Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd.		CID000855
Gold		JSC Novosibirsk Refinery		CID000493
Gold		JSC Uralelectromed		CID000929
Gold		JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.		CID000937
Gold		Kazzinc		CID000957
Gold		Kennecott Utah Copper LLC		CID000969
Gold		KGHM Polska Miedz Spolka Akcyjna		CID002511
Gold		Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd.		CID000981
Gold		Korea Zinc Co., Ltd.		CID002605
Gold		L’Orfebre S.A.		CID002762
Gold		LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.		CID001078

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Gold	LT Metal Ltd.	CID000689
Gold	Marsam Metals	CID002606
Gold	Materion	CID001113
Gold	Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.	CID001119
Gold	Metal Concentrators SA (Pty) Ltd.	CID003575
Gold	Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.	CID001149
Gold	Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd.	CID001152
Gold	Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd.	CID001147
Gold	Metalor Technologies S.A.	CID001153
Gold	Metalor USA Refining Corporation	CID001157
Gold	Metalurgica Met-Mex Penoles S.A. De C.V.	CID001161
Gold	Mitsubishi Materials Corporation	CID001188
Gold	Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.	CID001193
Gold	MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd.	CID002509
Gold	Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant	CID001204
Gold	Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.S.	CID001220
Gold	Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat	CID001236
Gold	NH Recytech Company	CID003189
Gold	Nihon Material Co., Ltd.	CID001259
Gold	Ogussa Osterreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH	CID002779
Gold	Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd.	CID001325
Gold	OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastsvetmet)	CID001326
Gold	PAMP S.A.	CID001352
Gold	Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA	CID002919
Gold	Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals	CID001386
Gold	PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk	CID001397
Gold	PX Precinox S.A.	CID001498
Gold	Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd.	CID001512
Gold	REMONDIS PMR B.V.	CID002582
Gold	Royal Canadian Mint	CID001534
Gold	SAAMP	CID002761
Gold	Safimet S.p.A	CID002973
Gold	SAFINA A.S.	CID002290
Gold	Samduck Precious Metals	CID001555
Gold	SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria S.A.	CID001585
Gold	Shandong Gold Smelting Co., Ltd.	CID001916
Gold	Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.	CID001622
Gold	Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd.	CID001736
Gold	Singway Technology Co., Ltd.	CID002516
Gold	SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals	CID001756
Gold	Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.	CID001761
Gold	Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.	CID001798
Gold	SungEel HiMetal Co., Ltd.	CID002918
Gold	T.C.A S.p.A	CID002580
Gold	Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.	CID001875
Gold	Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd.	CID001938
Gold	TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn	CID002615
Gold	Torecom	CID001955
Gold	Umicore Precious Metals Thailand	CID002314
Gold	Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining	CID001980
Gold	United Precious Metal Refining, Inc.	CID001993
Gold	Valcambi S.A.	CID002003
Gold	Western Australian Mint (T/a The Perth Mint)	CID002030
Gold	WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH	CID002778
Gold	Yamakin Co., Ltd.	CID002100
Gold	Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd.	CID002129
Gold	Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation	CID002224

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Tantalum	AMG Brasil	CID001076
Tantalum	Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.	CID000211
Tantalum	D Block Metals, LLC	CID002504
Tantalum	F&X Electro-Materials Ltd.	CID000460
Tantalum	FIR Metals & Resource Ltd.	CID002505
Tantalum	Global Advanced Metals Aizu	CID002558
Tantalum	Global Advanced Metals Boyertown	CID002557
Tantalum	H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH	CID002547
Tantalum	H.C. Starck Inc.	CID002548
Tantalum	Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd.	CID002492
Tantalum	Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.	CID002512
Tantalum	Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material	CID002842
Tantalum	JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	CID000914
Tantalum	Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd.	CID000917
Tantalum	Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.	CID002506
Tantalum	KEMET de Mexico	CID002539
Tantalum	Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd.	CID001163
Tantalum	Mineracao Taboca S.A.	CID001175
Tantalum	Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.	CID001192
Tantalum	Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.	CID001277
Tantalum	NPM Silmet AS	CID001200
Tantalum	QuantumClean	CID001508
Tantalum	Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda.	CID002707
Tantalum	Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO	CID001769
Tantalum	Taki Chemical Co., Ltd	CID001869
Tantalum	TANIOBIS Co., Ltd	CID002544
Tantalum	TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG	CID002550
Tantalum	TANIOBIS GmbH	CID002545
Tantalum	TANIOBIS Japan Co., Ltd	CID002549
Tantalum	Telex Metals	CID001891
Tantalum	Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC	CID001969
Tantalum	Ximei Resources (Guangdong) Limited	CID000616
Tantalum	XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd.	CID002508
Tantalum	Yanling Jincheng Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.	CID001522

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Tin	Alpha	CID000292
Tin	Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd.	CID000228
Tin	Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd	CID003190
Tin	China Tin Group Co., Ltd.	CID001070
Tin	Dowa	CID000402
Tin	EM Vinto	CID000438
Tin	Fabrica Auricchio Industria e Comercio Ltda.	CID003582
Tin	Fenix Metals	CID000468
Tin	Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC	CID000942
Tin	Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.	CID000538
Tin	Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd.	CID001908
Tin	Gejiu Zili Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd.	CID000555
Tin	Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd.	CID003116
Tin	Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd.	CID001231
Tin	Luna Smelter, Ltd.	CID003387
Tin	Ma’anshan Weitai Tin Co., Ltd.	CID003379
Tin	Magnu’s Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda.	CID002468
Tin	Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)	CID001105
Tin	Melt Metais e Ligas S.A.	CID002500
Tin	Metallic Resources, Inc.	CID001142
Tin	Metallo Belgium N.V.	CID002773
Tin	Metallo Spain S.L.U.	CID002774
Tin	Mineracao Taboca S.A.	CID001173
Tin	Minsur	CID001182
Tin	Mitsubishi Materials Corporation	CID001191
Tin	O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.	CID001314
Tin	O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.	CID002517
Tin	Operaciones Metalurgicas S.A.	CID001337
Tin	PT Artha Cipta Langgeng	CID001399
Tin	PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya	CID002503
Tin	PT Babel Inti Perkasa	CID001402
Tin	PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari	CID001406
Tin	PT Bangka Serumpun	CID003205
Tin	PT Menara Cipta Mulia	CID002835
Tin	PT Mitra Stania Prima	CID001453
Tin	PT Prima Timah Utama	CID001458
Tin	PT Rajawali Rimba Perkasa	CID003381
Tin	PT Refined Bangka Tin	CID001460
Tin	PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa	CID001463
Tin	PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa	CID001468
Tin	PT Timah Tbk Kundur	CID001477
Tin	PT Timah Tbk Mentok	CID001482
Tin	PT Tinindo Inter Nusa	CID001490
Tin	Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda.	CID002706
Tin	Rui Da Hung	CID001539
Tin	Soft Metais Ltda.	CID001758
Tin	Thaisarco	CID001898
Tin	Tin Smelting Branch of Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd.	CID002180
Tin	Tin Technology & Refining	CID003325
Tin	White Solder Metalurgia e Mineracao Ltda.	CID002036
Tin	Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	CID002158
Tin	Yunnan Yunfan Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	CID003397

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Tungsten	A.L.M.T.  Corp.	CID000004
Tungsten	ACL Metais Eireli	CID002833
Tungsten	Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.	CID002502
Tungsten	Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.	CID002513
Tungsten	China Molybdenum Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CID002641
Tungsten	Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CID000258
Tungsten	Cronimet Brasil Ltda	CID003468
Tungsten	Fujian Ganmin RareMetal Co., Ltd.	CID003401
Tungsten	Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co. Ltd	CID002645
Tungsten	Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.	CID000875
Tungsten	Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.	CID002315
Tungsten	Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd.	CID002494
Tungsten	Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.	CID000568
Tungsten	Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CID000218
Tungsten	H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH	CID002541
Tungsten	Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.	CID000766
Tungsten	Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	CID000769
Tungsten	Hydrometallurg, JSC	CID002649
Tungsten	Japan New Metals Co., Ltd.	CID000825
Tungsten	Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.	CID002551
Tungsten	Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CID002321
Tungsten	Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd.	CID002318
Tungsten	Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.	CID002317
Tungsten	Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CID002316
Tungsten	Kennametal Fallon	CID000966
Tungsten	Kennametal Huntsville	CID000105
Tungsten	Lianyou Metals Co., Ltd.	CID003407
Tungsten	Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CID002319
Tungsten	Masan High-Tech Materials	CID002543
Tungsten	Moliren Ltd.	CID002845
Tungsten	Niagara Refining LLC	CID002589
Tungsten	Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc.	CID002827
Tungsten	TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG	CID002542
Tungsten	Unecha Refractory metals plant	CID002724
Tungsten	Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten AG	CID002044
Tungsten	Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.	CID002320
Tungsten	Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CID002082
Tungsten	Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd.	CID002830

The Company has communicated its expectations, as reflected in its Conflict Minerals Policy, to its manufacturing subcontractors and other suppliers. The Company continues to engage with its suppliers to update their information on the source and chain of custody of conflict minerals in Peraso’s supply chain and to require that all smelters utilized agree to participate in the RMI or equivalent program.

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