ACM Research, Inc. (ACMR)
Semiconductor cleaning equipment maker, mostly China. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 2, 2026. Ranked 224 of the 238 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
30%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
40%
Employees, annual report
2,513
Leading staffing pattern
Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now30%
- End of 202738%
- End of 202840%
- End of 203040%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 60%
- Becomes checking a model's work 34%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing counts 2,513 full-time equivalent employees at December 31, 2025 by function, 2,357 of them in mainland China and Taiwan, so the manufacturing, research and sales staff are read at the machinery group and the 196 in administration at management of companies.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 30% now, 38% at the end of 2027, 40% at the end of 2028, 40% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 40% desk work, 16% people work and 44% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 60% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
2,513 employees as of December 31, 2025 (full-time equivalent). 29 of 2,513 employees are based in the United States, 2,357 in mainland China and Taiwan and 127 in Korea (stated).
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 2,513 full-time equivalent employees, of whom 196 were in administration, 365 were in manufacturing, 1,228 were in research and development, and 724 were in sales and marketing and customer services.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only) | 92% | The filing counts 365 employees in manufacturing, 1,228 in research and development and 724 in sales, marketing and customer services (a), the staff of a semiconductor cleaning and plating equipment maker read at the machinery group, where semiconductor machinery sits. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 8% | The filing counts 196 employees in administration (a), a stated administrative count read at management of companies under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 2,513 full-time equivalent employees at December 31, 2025: 196 in administration, 365 in manufacturing, 1,228 in research and development and 724 in sales, marketing and customer services; 2,357 in mainland China and Taiwan, 127 in Korea and 29 in the United States; no labor organization; operations principally in mainland China.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Caterpillar Inc. (CAT, 118,000 employees)29% now, 39% by 2028
- Deere & Company (DE, 73,100 employees)30% now, 39% by 2028
- Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH, 59,850 employees)30% now, 40% by 2028
- Carrier Global Corporation (CARR, 47,000 employees)29% now, 37% by 2028
- Trane Technologies plc (TT, 44,000 employees)27% now, 34% by 2028
- Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SWK, 43,500 employees)29% now, 36% by 2028
- Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW, 43,000 employees)30% now, 39% by 2028
- Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT, 36,500 employees)29% now, 37% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence only in describing U.S. rules: outbound investment notification requirements and prohibitions covering semiconductors, quantum technologies and AI systems, and export controls on advanced chips and equipment tied to AI and advanced computing.
- “As implemented by the final rule, the framework imposes notification requirements and prohibitions on specified investments by U.S. persons in the semiconductor and microelectronics sector, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) systems.”
- “BIS imposed additional controls on exports to, and transfers within, the People's Republic of China PRC relating to advanced integrated circuit products, certain IC manufacturing equipment and technology, and supercomputers associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2,513 | 2026-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,023 | 2025-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 1,590 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 1,209 | 2023-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 877 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 543 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 361 | 2020-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 273 | 2019-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 191 | 2018-03-23 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount is a full-time equivalent figure (rule 2).
- The 1,228 in research and development are a function count, not a separate organization, and stay inside the equipment pattern.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-013231, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of ACM Research, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 30% now and 40% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce ACM Research, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does ACM Research, Inc. employ?
- 2,513 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states, in full-time equivalents. About 1% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up ACM Research, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only); by those patterns the work is about 40% desk work, 16% people work and 44% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does ACM Research, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 1, 0, 2 and 2 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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