Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

Rating Overview

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is Medium Risk.

Lattice Semiconductor is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Lattice Semiconductor integrates ESG into its business practices. From its ESG Web Page: “Non-sales employees participate in Lattice’s Corporate Incentive Plan, which rewards employees when Lattice meets and exceeds its goals on revenue, operating income, and key strategic and ESG-related business objectives” (1). The company promotes divisive sex and gender policies. Its Code of Conduct requires international vendors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policy (2). Lattice requires its “suppliers to have strong ESG programs as part of our qualification process” (3). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (4).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Lattice Semiconductor does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1). The company’s charitable giving focus areas are Bahay Aruga, local food banks, and Red Cross (2).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Lattice Semiconductor requires its employees to take diversity and inclusion training, and requires managers to take unconscious bias training (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its leadership composition. From its Corporate Governance Policies: “the Board believes that the assessment of director qualifications may include numerous factors, such as… diversity with respect to professional background, education, race, ethnicity, gender, age and geography, as well as other individual qualities and attributes that contribute to the total mix of viewpoints and experience represented on the Board” (2). Lattice Semiconductor does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (3).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Lattice Semiconductor supports DEI within its business practices. From its ESG Web Page: “We believe that inclusion and diversity are valuable elements of an effective workforce at all levels and are key enablers of innovation” (1). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its ESG Web Page: “We know that even the smallest things can make a big impact and are committed to actively managing our environmental, social, and governance practices across all aspects of our business” (2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Lattice Semiconductor has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Lattice Semiconductor does not operate a PAC at this time and has not used its lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).