TTM Technologies, Inc. (TTMI)
Printed circuit board maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 29, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 72 of the 74 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
44%
Employees, annual report
18,200
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 202735%
- End of 202844%
- End of 203049%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 49%
- Becomes checking a model's work 41%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
18,200 employees, 14,800 of them in manufacturing, 5,900 in the U.S. and 9,900 in China, making printed circuit boards and RF components, read as one electronic components pattern applied abroad.
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, 35% 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 49% 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
18,200 employees as of December 29, 2025 (stated). 5,900 of 18,200 employees are in the U.S. (stated); about 9,900 are in China.
The filing: “In 2025, we generated approximately $2.9 billion in net sales and ended the year with approximately 18,200 employees worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 100% | The filing describes one kind of work, printed circuit boards and RF components made at plants in the U.S. and Asia, and counts employees by function (a), not by segment, so one pattern by description (c); printed circuit board manufacturing sits in this group, and the pattern applies abroad under rule 7. |
What the filing says about the workforce: By function: 14,800 in manufacturing, 1,800 in engineering or technician positions, 1,100 in professional, managerial or administrative positions, 500 in sales and marketing; 50 of 5,900 U.S. employees represented by unions, and about 9,900 employees in China members of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (55% in all).
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)18% now, 46% by 2028
- Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- TE Connectivity plc (TEL, 93,000 employees)18% 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
15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in fifteen sentences: artificial intelligence among the emerging technology trends that require it to keep pace with evolving regulations and standards, current and proposed U.S. regulatory frameworks on AI in products and services, and the data center computing demand its boards serve.
- “ABL and Asia ABL, collectively OBBBA One Big Beautiful Bill Act AESA Active electronically scanned array ODMs Original design manufacturers AI Artificial intelligence OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Asia ABL Asia Asset-Based Lending Credit Agreement OEMs Original equipment manufacturers ASICs Application Specific Integrated Circuits PCB Printed circuit board ASU Acco...”
- “New emerging technology trends, such as AI, require us to keep pace with evolving regulations and industry standards.”
- “In the United States, there are various current and proposed regulatory frameworks relating to the use of AI in products and services.”
- “We expect that the legal and regulatory environment relating to emerging technologies such as AI will continue to develop and could increase the cost of doing business, and create compliance risks and potential liability, all which may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.”
- “Governments are also considering the new issues in intellectual property law that AI creates, which could result in different intellectual property rights in technology we create with AI and development processes and procedures and could have a material adverse effect on our business.”
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 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20238median 1
- Fiscal 202410median 4
- Fiscal 202515median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-29 | 18,200 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-30 | 16,400 | 2025-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2024-01-01 | 15,800 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-01-02 | 17,800 | 2023-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2022-01-03 | 16,100 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-28 | 16,700 | 2021-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-30 | 25,700 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 27,000 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-01-01 | 29,000 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2017-01-02 | 28,360 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-28 | 29,570 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-29 | 16,857 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-30 | 16,290 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 19,934 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 16,300 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 17,448 | 2011-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 3,037 | 2010-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,585 | 2009-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 3,609 | 2008-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 4,009 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 1,705 | 2006-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 1,733 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 1,541 | 2004-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 1,390 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 862 | 2002-03-22 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 1,325 | 2001-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The function counts are recorded in the notes, not used as a split; all four functions sit inside one manufacturing pattern as BLS counts them.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-051976, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of TTM Technologies, 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 TTM Technologies, 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 TTM Technologies, Inc. employ?
- 18,200 as of December 29, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 29, 2025 states. About 32% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up TTM Technologies, 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 TTM Technologies, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 15 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 8, 10 and 15 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 19, 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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