Sanmina Corporation (SANM)
Electronics manufacturing services, 39,000, 55% in the Americas. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 27, 2025, filed November 13, 2025. Ranked 37 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
39,000
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 with its temporary part and the regions, nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the electronic component 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
39,000 employees as of September 27, 2025 (stated). About 55% in the Americas, 36% in APAC and 9% in EMEA; no U.S. count.
The filing: “As of September 27, 2025, we had approximately 39,000 employees, including 4,000 temporary employees in 20 countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 100% | An electronics manufacturing services company building circuit boards, assemblies and systems for customers (IMS 80% of revenue, CPS 20%); the filing states no count by kind of work, so one electronic component pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 39,000 employees including 4,000 temporary, in 20 countries: Americas 55%, APAC 36%, EMEA 9%; average tenure about eight years; about 49% women; no U.S. union representation, unions at some international plants.
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
10 sentences in the filing name AI. Ten sentences: AI data center equipment and semiconductor fabrication equipment among what it builds for customers, and investment in factory automation, robotics and AI for manufacturing efficiency.
- “Next generation semiconductor emulation and fabrication equipment supporting current and next generation artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions. b.”
- “Switches, servers, storage, racks and cooling for traditional data centers, edge compute and AI centric data center applications.”
- “We continue to invest in factory automation, process improvements, robotics and AI to further enhance our manufacturing efficiency.”
- “We currently supply a wide range of optical products from 100G to 1.6T supporting optical communication, AI, high performance computing, quantum computing and data center marketplaces.”
- “Viking Technology product offerings cater to the networking, industrial, transportation, medical, AI, data centers, and defense and aerospace markets.”
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 20235median 1
- Fiscal 20247median 4
- Fiscal 202510median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-27 | 39,000 | 2025-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-28 | 37,000 | 2024-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 34,000 | 2023-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-01 | 34,000 | 2022-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-02 | 35,000 | 2021-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-03 | 37,000 | 2020-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-28 | 43,000 | 2019-11-08 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-29 | 47,000 | 2018-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 47,000 | 2017-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-01 | 45,397 | 2016-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-03 | 43,854 | 2015-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-27 | 43,101 | 2014-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-28 | 40,909 | 2013-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-29 | 44,879 | 2012-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-01 | 45,505 | 2011-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-02 | 44,199 | 2010-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2009-10-03 | 38,602 | 2009-12-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-27 | 45,610 | 2008-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-29 | 52,607 | 2007-11-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 54,397 | 2007-01-03 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-01 | 48,621 | 2005-12-29 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-02 | 48,721 | 2004-12-29 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-27 | 45,008 | 2003-12-09 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-28 | 46,030 | 2002-12-04 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-29 | 48,774 | 2001-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2000-09-30 | 24,000 | 2000-12-18 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-10-02 | 7,220 | 1999-12-15 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-09-30 | 4,005 | 1998-12-21 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-30 | 2,522 | 1997-12-22 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-09-30 | 1,726 | 1996-12-24 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The 39,000 includes about 4,000 temporary employees, recorded as the filing states it.
- No U.S. count: 55% in the Americas, Mexico included; one electronic component pattern by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000897723-25-000042, 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 Sanmina Corporation'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 Sanmina Corporation'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 Sanmina Corporation employ?
- 39,000 as of September 27, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 27, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Sanmina Corporation'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 Sanmina Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 10 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 2, 5, 7 and 10 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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