NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)

Accelerated computing, 42,000 employees, 74% in research. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 25, 2026, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 35 of the 38 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing counts its people by function (a), nearly three quarters in research and development, so one semiconductor pattern carries the whole workforce, flagged for its production share.

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

42,000 employees as of January 25, 2026 (stated). Employees in 38 countries, about 6,000 of them in and around Israel; no U.S. count.

The filing: “As of the end of fiscal year 2026, we had approximately 42,000 employees in 38 countries; 31,000 were engaged in research and development and 11,000 were engaged in sales, marketing, operations, and administrative positions.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 42,000 employees in 38 countries: 31,000 in research and development and 11,000 in sales, marketing, operations and administration; more than 80% in technical roles and more than half with an advanced degree; turnover 3.7%; about 6,000 in the Israel region.

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

133 sentences in the filing name AI. One hundred thirty-three sentences: the company describes itself as a data center scale AI infrastructure company, with AI training and inference as the workloads its platforms accelerate and AI throughout its products, markets and risks.

• “NVIDIA is now a data center scale AI infrastructure company reshaping all industries.”
• “This deep and broad software stack accelerates the performance and facilitates the deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing for computationally intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence, or AI, model training and inference, data analytics, scientific computing, robotics, and 3D graphics, with vertical-specific optimizations to address industries ranging from healthcare and telecom t...”
• “This type of data center architecture and scale is needed for the development and deployment of modern AI and accelerated computing applications.”
• “This form of AI, in which software writes itself by learning from large amounts of data, can serve as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive, understand and reason about the world.”
• “GPU-powered AI solutions are being developed by thousands of enterprises to deliver services and products that would have been immensely difficult or even impossible with traditional coding.”

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 202160median 0
• Fiscal 202280median 0
• Fiscal 2023106median 1
• Fiscal 2024131median 4
• Fiscal 2025133median 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

• A fabless chip and systems designer with 31,000 of 42,000 in research and development, a counted function recorded in the notes; the semiconductor pattern's production share overstates production work here.
• No count by country beyond about 6,000 in the Israel region.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001045810-26-000021, 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.