Micron Technology, Inc. (MU)
Memory chip maker, 53,000 employees in three regions. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 28, 2025, filed October 3, 2025. Ranked 34 of the 38 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
44%
Employees, annual report
53,000
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 one total and the regions, nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the semiconductor manufacturing 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: 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
53,000 employees as of August 28, 2025 (stated). Primarily in Asia, North America and Europe; no count by country.
The filing: “As of August 28, 2025, we had approximately 53,000 employees located primarily in Asia, North America, and Europe.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 100% | The whole workforce designs, develops and manufactures memory and storage (DRAM 77% and NAND 23% of revenue, both semiconductors); the filing states nothing by kind of work, so one pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 53,000 employees primarily in Asia, North America and Europe; a highly educated workforce; membership of the 10 Employee Resource Groups exceeds half the workforce.
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
- QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM, 52,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Coherent, Inc. (COHR, 51,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA, 42,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
51 sentences in the filing name AI. Fifty-one sentences: AI as the demand the company's memory and storage products serve, from the data center to the edge, and the AI tools and training the company says it equips its team members with for labor productivity.
- “Abbreviations, acronyms, or terms that are commonly used or found in multiple locations throughout this report and include the following: Term Definition Term Definition 2024 Term Loan A Senior Term Loan A due October 2024, repaid January 2024 2035 B Notes 6.050% Senior Notes due November 2035 2025 Term Loan A Senior Term Loan A due November 2025, repaid May 2024 2041 Notes 3.366% Senior Notes...”
- “Specific forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expected production ramp of certain products; plans to invest in research and development, including the plans to implement EUV lithography; anticipated technological developments; potential change and impact in our effective tax rate; the timing for construction, expansion, and ramping of production for o...”
- “Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and compute-intensive applications that unleash opportunities - from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.”
- “This makes it ideal for applications that require high data throughput and energy efficiency, such as AI applications and high-performance computing.”
- “DDR5 is the fifth generation of this technology and offers the critical improvements in bandwidth and power efficiency necessary to meet the growing needs of high-performance computing, AI, and data-intensive applications.”
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 20219median 0
- Fiscal 202211median 0
- Fiscal 202314median 1
- Fiscal 202441median 4
- Fiscal 202551median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-28 | 53,000 | 2025-10-03 | 10-K |
| 2024-08-29 | 48,000 | 2024-10-04 | 10-K |
| 2023-08-31 | 43,000 | 2023-10-06 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-01 | 48,000 | 2022-10-07 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-02 | 43,000 | 2021-10-08 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-03 | 40,000 | 2020-10-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-08-29 | 37,000 | 2019-10-17 | 10-K |
| 2018-08-30 | 36,000 | 2018-10-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-08-31 | 34,100 | 2017-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-01 | 31,400 | 2016-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-03 | 31,800 | 2015-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2014-08-28 | 30,400 | 2014-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-08-29 | 30,900 | 2013-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-08-30 | 27,400 | 2012-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-01 | 26,100 | 2011-10-25 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-02 | 25,900 | 2010-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-03 | 18,200 | 2009-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2008-10-08 | 22,800 | 2008-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-10-12 | 23,500 | 2007-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-08-31 | 23,500 | 2006-11-08 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-01 | 18,800 | 2005-11-04 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-02 | 17,900 | 2004-10-15 | 10-K |
| 2003-08-28 | 16,600 | 2003-10-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-08-29 | 18,700 | 2002-10-15 | 10-K |
| 2001-08-30 | 18,100 | 2001-10-15 | 10-K |
| 2000-07-31 | 18,800 | 2000-10-18 | 10-K |
| 1999-09-02 | 15,700 | 1999-11-09 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-09-03 | 11,400 | 1998-11-02 | 10-K |
| 1997-08-28 | 12,200 | 1997-10-08 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-08-29 | 9,900 | 1996-10-04 | 10-K |
| 1995-08-31 | 8,080 | 1995-10-10 | 10-K |
| 1994-09-01 | 5,450 | 1994-09-23 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by country or kind of work: one pattern by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000723125-25-000028, 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 Micron Technology, 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 Micron Technology, 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 Micron Technology, Inc. employ?
- 53,000 as of August 28, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending August 28, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Micron Technology, 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 Micron Technology, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 51 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 9, 11, 14, 41 and 51 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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