Lam Research Corporation (LRCX)

Chip equipment maker, 23,300 full-time. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 28, 2026, filed August 7, 2026. Ranked 39 of the 60 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A semiconductor equipment maker whose filing states one full-time total and a research share, and nothing by site or country, so the whole workforce takes the industrial machinery pattern.

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, 31% at the end of 2027, 37% at the end of 2028, 39% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 39% desk work, 15% people work and 46% 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 61% 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

23,300 employees as of June 28, 2026 (stated). The filing states no count by country; 7% of revenue is from the United States, where its headquarters and main plants are.

The filing: “As of August 4, 2026, we had approximately 23,300 regular full-time employees, of which over 26% were engaged in research and development.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 23,300 regular full-time employees as of August 4, 2026 (19,000 a year earlier), over 26% engaged in research and development (a skill count).

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery 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.

• Dover Corporation (DOV, 24,000 employees)20% now, 38% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

30 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 30 times, as the demand behind its customers' chips and as a tool its customers and the company use in development.

• “Forward-looking statements in this report include, but are not limited to, statements concerning: our future results of operations and financial condition; our commitment to driving semiconductor breakthroughs; trends related to demand for electronic systems, including for high performance, energy efficient and highly integrated semiconductor devices, semiconductor manufacturer adoption of vert...”
• “Demand for electronic systems supporting artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, communications, automotive, industrial and other intelligent systems is driving the need for high performance, energy efficient and highly integrated semiconductor devices.”
• “In addition, the emergence of "big data" and new tools such as machine learning and AI that capitalize on the availability of large data sets is leading semiconductor manufacturers and equipment manufacturers to pursue new products and approaches that exploit those tools to advance technology development.”
• “Future technologies, processes, or product developments, including as a result of adoption of AI, may render our current product offerings obsolete, leaving us with non-competitive products, obsolete inventory, or both.”
• “Moreover, customers may adopt new technologies or processes to address the complex challenges associated with next-generation devices, or may adopt new technologies, including those based upon AI, that reduce their reliance on us for process development.”

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 20222median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20246median 4
• Fiscal 20256median 10
• Fiscal 202630

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

• One pattern by description: the research share is a skill count, not a pattern split.
• The headcount is the regular full-time count; no part-time count is stated.
• No U.S. share is stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000707549-26-000037, 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.