Broadcom Inc. (AVGO)
Chips and infrastructure software, 57% in research. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending November 2, 2025, filed December 18, 2025. Ranked 31 of the 48 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
54%
Employees, annual report
33,000
Leading staffing pattern
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202743%
- End of 202854%
- End of 203060%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 39%
- Becomes checking a model's work 48%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states approximately 33,000 employees, 57% in research and development and 49% in North America, with no count by segment, so semiconductors and software take their shares of revenue (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: 19% now, 43% at the end of 2027, 54% at the end of 2028, 60% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 60% desk work, 18% people work and 23% 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 39% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 48% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
33,000 employees as of November 2, 2025 (stated). North America is 49% of employees, Asia 36%, EMEA 15%; the United States alone is not stated.
The filing: “As of November 2, 2025, we had approximately 33,000 employees worldwide, with approximately 57% in research and development roles.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 58% | Semiconductor Solutions (NAICS 3344, the SIC 3674 business), 58% of net revenue; the filing counts employees by region and by research role, not by segment, so by revenue (c). |
| Software Publishers | 42% | Infrastructure Software, VMware and mainframe and security software (NAICS 5132), 42% of net revenue; by revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 33,000 employees, 57% in research and development roles; North America 49%, Asia 36%, Europe, Middle East and Africa 15%; voluntary attrition about 4.1%.
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
54 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as the market its products serve: data center infrastructure for training and inference, networking across AI server racks and sites, and accelerated compute.
- “Our solutions are used in a wide array of environments, end products and applications, such as enterprise and artificial intelligence ("AI") data centers, servers and networking and connectivity equipment, as well as storage systems, home connectivity devices, set-top boxes ("STB"), broadband access, telecommunication equipment, wireless devices and base stations, factory automation, power gene...”
- “Our semiconductor and semiconductor-based solutions also enable our customers to build and deploy AI data center infrastructure for their training and inference workloads and manage the movement of data across their AI network infrastructure based on open, flexible, standards-based Ethernet.”
- “In addition, our solutions enable accelerated compute and networking connectivity at scale, within and across AI server racks and across AI data center sites.”
- “Customers of these solutions are hyperscalers and companies with AI frontier models, as well as original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and system integrators that develop servers, switches and racks deployed in large-scale AI data centers to run training and inference workloads.”
- “Our AI semiconductor solutions include custom accelerators or XPUs, Ethernet switching and routing silicon, Ethernet NICs, physical layer devices ("PHYs") and optical components, as well as racks and systems based on our XPUs.”
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 20214median 0
- Fiscal 20225median 0
- Fiscal 20235median 1
- Fiscal 202439median 4
- Fiscal 202554median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-02 | 33,000 | 2025-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-11-03 | 37,000 | 2024-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-29 | 20,000 | 2023-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-30 | 20,000 | 2022-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 20,000 | 2021-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-11-01 | 21,000 | 2020-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-11-03 | 19,000 | 2019-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-11-04 | 15,000 | 2018-12-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Shares by segment revenue (c): the filing counts no employees by segment.
- No count by country; the U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001730168-25-000121, 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 Broadcom Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 54% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Broadcom 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 Broadcom Inc. employ?
- 33,000 as of November 2, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending November 2, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Broadcom Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 60% desk work, 18% people work and 23% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Broadcom Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 54 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 4, 5, 5, 39 and 54 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 2, 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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