NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXPI)
Automotive and industrial chipmaker. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 44 of the 48 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
44%
Employees, annual report
32,169
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 approximately 32,169 employees in one reportable segment, 11,034 of them in research, all in semiconductors, so one pattern carries the whole workforce (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
32,169 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; employees are in more than 30 countries across three regions, and the United States is 26% of revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 32,169 employees worldwide, including approximately 1,439 employees within our SSMC joint venture.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 100% | One reportable segment designing and making automotive, industrial and communications chips (NAICS 3344, the SIC 3674 business), with direct labor in manufacturing and 11,034 in research; one pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 32,169 employees worldwide, including 1,439 in the SSMC joint venture; 11,034 in research and development; direct labor in manufacturing and indirect labor in research, selling and administration; voluntary attrition 5.1%.
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
17 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as a product market: the Kinara acquisition for AI-powered edge systems, and neural processing units built into its processors for machine learning at the edge.
- “The Kinara acquisition complements and expands NXP's solutions for AI-powered edge systems in the Industrial & IoT and Automotive end markets. 3 Reporting Segment NXP has one reportable segment representing the entity as a whole, which reflects the way in which our chief operating decision maker, Rafael Sotomayor, executes operating decisions, allocates resources, and manages the growth and pro...”
- “The MCX series also integrates our machine learning neural processing unit for machine learning applications. ii.”
- “Our i.MX 9 series of application processors integrates hardware neural processing units across the entire series for acceleration of machine learning applications at the edge.”
- “Kinara brings high-performance, energy-efficient Discrete Neural Processing Units (NPUs), optimized specifically for generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models, to the NXP portfolio.”
- “Together with NXP's existing processors, connectivity, and security solutions, these NPU's help form a scalable platform for AI-powered edge systems.”
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 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20237median 1
- Fiscal 20248median 4
- Fiscal 202517median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 32,169 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 33,100 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 34,200 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 34,500 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 31,000 | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 29,000 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 8,808 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 30,000 | 2019-03-01 | 20-F |
| 2017-12-31 | 30,100 | 2018-04-11 | 20-F |
| 2016-12-31 | 40,400 | 2017-03-03 | 20-F |
| 2015-12-31 | 44,000 | 2016-02-26 | 20-F |
| 2014-12-31 | 27,884 | 2015-03-06 | 20-F |
| 2013-12-31 | 25,691 | 2014-02-28 | 20-F |
| 2012-12-31 | 25,358 | 2013-03-01 | 20-F |
| 2011-12-31 | 23,700 | 2012-03-13 | 20-F |
| 2010-12-31 | 24,500 | 2011-03-09 | 20-F |
Limits of this reading
- One pattern by description (c): the filing counts research staff and the joint venture, not employees by segment.
- No count by country; the U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001413447-26-000008, 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 NXP Semiconductors N.V.'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 NXP Semiconductors N.V.'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 NXP Semiconductors N.V. employ?
- 32,169 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up NXP Semiconductors N.V.'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 NXP Semiconductors N.V.'s annual report say about AI?
- 17 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 1, 7, 8 and 17 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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