Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT)

Semiconductor equipment, 36,500 employees, 46% Asia-Pacific. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 26, 2025, filed December 12, 2025. Ranked 27 of the 38 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states one regular full-time count and the regions, nothing by segment, so the whole workforce takes the machinery pattern by description (c).

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: 18% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 47% 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 62% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 30% 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

36,500 employees as of October 26, 2025 (stated). About 46% in Asia-Pacific, 42% in North America and 12% in Europe and the Middle East; no U.S. count.

The filing: “As of October 26, 2025, we employed approximately 36,500 regular full-time employees spanning 25 countries, of whom approximately 46%, 42% and 12% resided in the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and Europe/Middle East, respectively.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 36,500 regular full-time employees in 25 countries: Asia-Pacific 46%, North America 42%, Europe and the Middle East 12%; learning on a 70/20/10 model.

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.

• Caterpillar Inc. (CAT, 118,000 employees)18% now, 37% by 2028
• Deere & Company (DE, 73,100 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
• Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH, 59,850 employees)17% now, 38% by 2028
• Carrier Global Corporation (CARR, 47,000 employees)18% now, 36% by 2028
• Trane Technologies plc (TT, 44,000 employees)18% now, 33% by 2028
• Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW, 43,000 employees)18% now, 37% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

27 sentences in the filing name AI. Twenty-seven sentences: AI among the advances semiconductors enable and the end-market drivers of the industry's growth, and AI and data center servers among the uses of its customers' products.

• “Semiconductors provide the foundation for advances in technology that are reshaping the global economy, including artificial intelligence, the internet of things, robotics, electric and autonomous vehicles, and clean energy.”
• “Our customers' products are used across personal computing devices, mobile phones, artificial intelligence (AI) and data center servers, automobiles, connected devices, industrial applications and consumer electronics.”
• “The growth of data and emerging end-market drivers such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, robotics and smart vehicles are also creating the next wave of growth for the industry.”
• “In addition to instructor-led and web-based training, we offer state-of-the-art training modalities, such as AI-based simulations and Augmented and Virtual Reality learning capabilities, to further the development of our new products, train our manufacturing and field support employees, and facilitate remote collaboration.”
• “Artificial intelligence (AI) and technologies related to AI are a significant demand driver for the industries we serve.”

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 20212median 0
• Fiscal 20223median 0
• Fiscal 20238median 1
• Fiscal 202422median 4
• Fiscal 202527median 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.

Limits of this reading

• No count by segment: one machinery pattern by description (c); the services business (23% of revenue) sits inside it.
• No U.S. count: 42% in North America.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-25-056742, 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.