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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000827054-24-000168"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCHP"
cik: "0000827054"
company_name: "MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:09:22.681165+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders approve 8M share increase in equity plan; all directors elected

## Summary
- Amendment to 2004 Equity Incentive Plan approved with 432.8M votes for, adding 8,000,000 shares to authorized pool.
- All eight director nominees elected; votes ranged from 376.9M (Rapp) to 447.8M (Barker).
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 421.8M votes for; shareholder proposal on international-law diligence rejected (74.2M for).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2025 approved with 471.1M votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000827054-24-000168
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCHP
- cik: 0000827054
- company_name: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827054/000082705424000168/0000827054-24-000168-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827054/000082705424000168/mchp-20240820.htm

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