One of the questions I think about most is how AMD can continue to scale responsibly as our technology reaches more people, industries and applications.
Today, we published the AMD 2025-26 Corporate Responsibility Report, reflecting on progress against our 2020-2025 goals and looking ahead to 2030. The report reinforces an important principle: As AMD grows, our approach to corporate responsibility must scale with the business.
That means embedding responsibility into how we operate, design products, work with suppliers and engage partners, while continually assessing societal and environmental risks and opportunities most relevant to our business.
AMD has grown significantly since 2020, including a global workforce that is roughly 2.5 times larger. At the same time, the rapid expansion of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) is increasing demands on power, land, water, cooling and computing infrastructure. Efficiency and responsible innovation are business imperatives.
AI and advanced computing are helping researchers, businesses and public institutions tackle the world’s most important challenges. Our responsibility is to help expand those benefits while being thoughtful about the resources and systems required to make that growth possible.
Embedding Responsibility into Our Operations #
As AMD has scaled, we have invested in systems to conserve resources, support employees and maintain accountability. From 2020 to 2025, the share of electricity attributed to renewable sources increased from 22% to 58%, contributing to a 30% reduction in operational greenhouse gas emissions.
Scaling responsibly is also about our people. We have continued to expand training, mentoring and career development opportunities. In 2025 more than two-thirds of AMD employees participated in employee resource groups, community engagement or volunteerism.
Embedding Responsibility into Our Products #
Product design is one of the clearest ways to scale impact. Improvements in computing efficiency can compound across thousands of systems, data centers and workloads, especially as AI infrastructure expands.
Customers need substantially more compute while working within constraints on power, cooling, water and grid capacity. AMD addresses those challenges through innovation across the compute stack, from modular architecture and advanced packaging to optimized networking, systems and software.
From 2020 to 2025, AMD achieved a 38x improvement in energy efficiency for AI training and high-performance computing nodes. Reflective of these gains, AMD technology-powered systems represented on the Green500 list increased significantly from 11 systems on the June 2020 list to 194 on the June 2026 list. As AI performance increasingly depends on larger clusters of HPC systems, we are working toward a new goal to improve rack-level AI energy efficiency 20x from 2024 to 2030. We have made strong progress with our new AMD Helios™ rackscale system, which you can read more about in our latest goal progress update.
We are also addressing environmental impacts across the technology life cycle. In 2025, expanded product takeback programs enabled AMD to refurbish, repair or recycle more than 768,000 units weighing more than 91 metric tons.
Progress at this scale does not come from one team or one product. The AMD Corporate Power Initiative brings together teams across architecture, silicon, systems, software and applications to pursue efficiency throughout the technology stack.
Together, these efforts reflect a broad approach spanning product design, operations, manufacturing and end-of-life management.
Embedding Responsibility into Our Supply Chain #
As the business and our product portfolio have grown, so has the complexity of our global supply chain. For a fabless company with outsourced manufacturing, supplier engagement is a critical lever to help strengthen responsible business practices, accelerate climate action and improve resilience across the supply chain.
From 2020 to 2025, the number of AMD manufacturing supplier factories increased by 44%. During that period, we audited 99% of those suppliers for responsible business practices. In 2025, 88% of manufacturing suppliers participated in capacity-building activities, including training related to forced labor and climate targets, and 82% sourced renewable energy. We are also strengthening material traceability, resilience planning and responsible minerals due diligence. These efforts help improve visibility into the supply chain, identify vulnerabilities earlier and strengthen resilience and responsible business practices.
Delivering Purpose-Driven Innovation #
Ultimately, corporate responsibility is about how we improve lives and add long-term value. I am inspired by the reach AMD technology can have when it is put in the hands of researchers, educators and organizations working to solve difficult problems. In 2025, AMD technology donations to more than 800 universities, research institutions and nonprofit organizations drove overall beneficiaries since 2020 to an estimated 104.8 million people through support for education, scientific research and workforce development. In 2025, AMD also pledged $150 million to expand AI education across the United States.
We are already beginning to see the impact. Radiologists are applying advanced computing to improve cancer detection and diagnosis. Researchers are using HPC to advance discovery in medicine, climate science and other fields. Educators are using AMD Learning Labs to expand access to technology and help prepare the workforce of the future.
I am grateful to the AMD teams and partners around the world who help accelerate solutions, strengthen responsible business practices and drive progress at scale. The pace of innovation has never been greater, and neither has the opportunity to apply purpose-built technology to help solve the world’s most complex challenges.
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