Although it&#x27;s clear that Intel is addressing the very valid concerns people have always had about coltan, there are a lot of good comments in this thread about the vagueness of &quot;conflict free.&quot; Perhaps a more interesting and useful metric would be a &quot;living wage supply chain,&quot; where everyone involved has been paid enough money to lead at least a lower-middle-class lifestyle. I don&#x27;t have any clue how this would work, but hey -- this is an online comment, not an economics paper!<p>Of course you&#x27;d have companies claiming that $1&#x2F;day is middle class in certain countries, etc, so maybe you&#x27;d have to set some sort of standardized chart based on CPI, but y&#x27;all get what I&#x27;m saying here. I think it would be more informative than &quot;conflict-free&quot;, especially since it gets to the root of ensuring a lack of slave-labor-like conditions for workers. Most of the fashion industry, for example, would never manage to hold itself to such a standard. &quot;Made in Italy&quot; is a lot more expensive when you can&#x27;t pay table scraps to your Chinese &quot;guest workers&quot;...