Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
Chip designer for AI and computing. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025, filed February 4, 2026. Ranked 36 of the 48 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
44%
Employees, annual report
31,000
Leading staffing pattern
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202844%
- End of 203049%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 48%
- Becomes checking a model's work 41%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing states approximately 31,000 employees in one semiconductor business, with no count by function or country, so one pattern carries the whole workforce (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: 17% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% 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 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% 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
31,000 employees as of December 27, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; the United States is 33% of revenue.
The filing: “Human Capital As of December 27, 2025, we had approximately 31,000 employees in our global workforce.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 100% | Designing processors and graphics chips for data centers, PCs, gaming and embedded systems (NAICS 3344, the SIC 3674 business), one business; the filing counts no employees by function, so one pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 31,000 employees in a global workforce; in-person, hybrid and remote work options.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Amphenol Corporation (APH, 170,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Flex Ltd. (FLEX, 149,686 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- TE Connectivity plc (TEL, 93,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Intel Corp. (INTC, 85,100 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Micron Technology, Inc. (MU, 53,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM, 52,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Coherent, Inc. (COHR, 51,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
124 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing presents AI as its market: AI and high-performance computing as its mission, with its technology in cloud and AI infrastructure, AI PCs and gaming.
- “The forward-looking statements relate to, among other things: possible impact of future accounting rules on AMD's consolidated financial statements; demand for AMD's products; AMD's strategy and expected benefits; the growth, change and competitive landscape of the markets in which AMD participates; international sales will continue to be a significant portion of total sales in the foreseeable...”
- “Overview AMD drives innovation in high performance and AI computing to solve the world's most important challenges.”
- “AMD technology powers billions of experiences across cloud and AI infrastructure, embedded systems, AI PCs and gaming.”
- “With a broad portfolio of AI-optimized CPUs, GPUs, networking and software, AMD delivers full-stack solutions that help customers turn data into breakthroughs, with the speed and scale needed for a new era of intelligent computing.”
- “For data centers, we offer AI accelerators, microprocessors (CPUs), graphic processing units (GPUs), data processing units (DPUs), AI Network Interface Cards (AI NICs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).”
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 202111median 0
- Fiscal 202213median 0
- Fiscal 202371median 1
- Fiscal 2024104median 4
- Fiscal 2025124median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | 31,000 | 2026-02-04 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-28 | 28,000 | 2025-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-30 | 26,000 | 2024-01-31 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 25,000 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-25 | 15,500 | 2022-02-03 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-26 | 12,600 | 2021-01-29 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-28 | 11,400 | 2020-02-04 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-29 | 10,100 | 2019-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-30 | 8,900 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 8,200 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-26 | 9,100 | 2016-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-27 | 9,700 | 2015-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-28 | 10,671 | 2014-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-29 | 10,340 | 2013-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 11,100 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-25 | 11,100 | 2011-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-26 | 10,400 | 2010-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-27 | 14,700 | 2009-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | 16,420 | 2008-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 16,500 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-25 | 9,860 | 2006-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-26 | 8,300 | 2005-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-28 | 7,400 | 2004-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-29 | 12,146 | 2003-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-30 | 14,415 | 2002-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 14,696 | 2001-03-20 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-26 | 13,387 | 2000-03-21 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-27 | 13,800 | 1999-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-28 | 12,800 | 1998-03-03 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-29 | 12,200 | 1997-03-20 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 12,797 | 1996-03-21 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-25 | 11,800 | 1995-03-07 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-26 | 12,060 | 1994-03-07 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- One pattern by description (c): the filing counts no employees by function.
- No count by country; the U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000002488-26-000018, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 44% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Advanced Micro Devices, 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 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. employ?
- 31,000 as of December 27, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 124 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 11, 13, 71, 104 and 124 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 October 3, 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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