Our Approach

At AMD, we believe that in the hands of the best and brightest, our technology can help address shared challenges. We take a collaborative approach to advance digital impact across areas such as scientific research, STEM and AI education and responsible product use.

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Our Goal and Progress

104.8M
People benefited from AMD and AMD Foundation philanthropy and partnerships that enable STEM education, scientific research and the workforce of the future (2020-25)¹

Target: 100 million

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Advancing Scientific Research

AMD University Program

We bring our commitment to advancing scientific research to life through the AMD University Program, which empowers academics with AMD technologies and educational resources to support research labs and classroom teaching. Focused on AI, our efforts include the AMD AI and HPC Cluster and the collaborative AMD Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Clusters (HACC) program.

Empowering STEM Education

We are passionate about enabling the imagination and creativity of the next generation. By placing technology in their hands, we encourage exploration and learning that open doors to new careers and possibilities.

Promoting Responsible Product Use

While we focus on harnessing the opportunities technology can bring, we also recognize its potential risks and the need to create guardrails that balance innovation with responsibility. AMD is committed to the responsible and ethical development of innovative technology.

Open and Trustworthy AI

With the immense opportunity of AI comes the challenge of keeping technology focused on positive outcomes and helping solve some of the world’s most complex challenges. AMD is committed to working with the industry to innovate and deploy AI in a responsible manner. 

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Collaborating with our Partners to Solve the World’s Most Important Challenges

Achieving real progress takes bringing groundbreaking innovation and human ingenuity together to create something exceptional. From aerospace and automotive, through energy and climate, to health care and beyond, our strategic partnerships advance almost every facet of the world we live in. Together, we turn the hardest problems into the greatest possibilities.

Industry Collaboration

We recognize that meaningful improvement in corporate responsibility requires global collaboration that, when done well, can be transformative. We actively engage in industry dialogues through forums such as the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and SEMI.

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Footnotes
  1. The time period for the Digital Impact goal includes donations made after Jan. 1, 2020, and initiated by Dec. 31, 2025. “Initiated” is defined as AMD and the recipient organization reaching an agreement on an AMD donation, which must be delivered by July 30, 2026. Reported data include direct beneficiaries defined as students, faculty or researchers with direct access to AMD-donated technology, funding or volunteers; and indirect beneficiaries defined as individuals with a reasonable likelihood of receiving research data formulated through AMD-donated technology and potentially gaining useful insights or knowledge or being impacted by the application of the research. AMD conducts annual surveys with recipient organizations to estimate direct beneficiaries and, in the case of the AI & HPC Fund, indirect beneficiaries as well. Based on three years of responses (2021-23), AMD created an economic-based impact assumption to estimate the total number of indirect beneficiaries (not applied to direct beneficiaries) by dividing the total market value of donations in a given year by the total reported indirect beneficiary values from recipients’ surveys for the same year. The data show the ratio is 1.08 on average for the 3 years of data used in the model. Therefore, AMD assumes for every US$1 million of market value donated, approximately 1.08 million people will indirectly benefit. AMD also assumes that the annual estimated indirect beneficiaries in year 1 continue to reach additional individuals in years 2 and 3, but at a reduced rate. The impact depreciation rate assumes year 2 beneficiaries amount to 50% of year 1 estimates and year 3 beneficiaries amount to 25% of year 1 estimates. AMD goal calculations are third-party verified (limited level assurance) based on data supplied by recipient organizations, which is not independently verified by AMD, and AMD economic-based impact models based on data supplied by recipient organizations. The model mentioned above was extended to data from the AMD University Program (which now includes the AI & HPC Fund) for 2023-24.