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accession: "0000827054-25-000160"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCHP"
cik: "0000827054"
company_name: "MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T11:18:12.032277+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Microchip Technology shareholders reject advisory vote on executive compensation at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Say-on-pay not approved: 205.8M for, 245.1M against, 32.6M broker non-votes.
- All six director nominees elected (e.g., Steve Sanghi 414.4M for, 36.7M against).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2026 approved (456.8M for, 26.8M against).
- Total shares voted at meeting: about 484M of outstanding (excluding broker non-votes on director elections).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000827054-25-000160
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCHP
- cik: 0000827054
- company_name: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827054/000082705425000160/0000827054-25-000160-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827054/000082705425000160/mchp-20250819.htm

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