Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (KLIC)

Semiconductor assembly equipment maker, one pattern. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 4, 2025, filed November 20, 2025. Ranked 229 of the 238 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 2,551 full-time employees at October 4, 2025 beside 41 temporary workers and describes one semiconductor equipment business, so the whole workforce is read at the machinery group by description.

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: 29% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 37% 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), 32% 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

2,551 employees as of October 4, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the filing gives no count by country.

The filing: “As of October 4, 2025, we had 2,551 full-time employees and 41 temporary workers worldwide.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 2,551 full-time employees and 41 temporary workers worldwide at October 4, 2025, down from 2,681; an Executive Safety Committee and site EHS committees; a formalized career progression framework; an Engineering Competency Framework planned for fiscal 2026.

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

5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its vertical wire technology is engineered for high-volume, at-the-edge AI applications enabling transistor-dense memory assembly, and names AI among the tools that may generate cyberattacks at greater scale.

• “Engineered for high-volume, at-the-edge AI applications, our vertical wire technology has broken barriers to enable a new level of transistor-dense DRAM and NAND assembly.”
• “While the BIS rescinded its "Framework for AI Diffusion" in May 2025, there is a possibility of a replacement rule or other similar rules being introduced in the future.”
• “For example, artificial intelligence ("AI") may be used to generate cyberattacks with greater scale and efficacy than the traditional threat actors.”
• “In other instance, a cybersecurity threat could be 27 Table of Contents introduced as the result of our business partners incorporating the output of an AI tool that includes a threat, such as introducing malicious code by incorporating an AI generated source code.”
• “However, future attempts or breaches might become more pervasive and sophisticated, especially given that threat actors may leverage other means and technologies, including artificial intelligence, to circumvent controls and avoid detection.”

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 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20243median 4
• Fiscal 20255median 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

• The 41 temporary workers are stated apart and not counted (rule 8).
• The U.S. share is not stated.
• No count by segment; one pattern by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000056978-25-000081, 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.