AMD released its 27th annual Corporate Responsibility Report claiming it's on track to achieve its responsibility goals for 2025 and 2030 set last year. The report outlines progress in DE&I, “digital impact, environmental sustainability, [and] supply chain responsibility.”

The release touts AMD's focus on diversity hiring – with incentivized bonus programs and university partnerships – as well as sustainability markers, having entered into a “$3 billion sustainability-linked credit facility.”

“It is not just what our semiconductor technology can do that matters, but also how we develop and deliver it,” stated AMD corporate vice president, corporate responsibility, and international government affairs Susan Moore.

Within its work surrounding DE&I, AMD's updates focused on its partnerships, including one established last year with AnitaB.org offering “female students exclusive scholarships to support their technical education.”

The chipmaker also highlighted a series of collaborations with Howard University, including AMD team-lead tech talks and hardware provisions for the College of Engineering and Architecture to aid with artificial intelligence (AI) research. The system “is being used to enhance hands-on lab activities and research in machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and cloud computing,” according to AMD.

The company also highlighted a focus on advancing employee involvement in resource groups and inclusion initiatives. Their goal is to achieve 70% employee participation in these initiatives by 2025, with the benchmark of 52% from 2021. 

Surrounding supply chain goals, AMD shared its current position with 64% of their supplier manufacturing factories having a Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) audit, and 61% of these suppliers participating in a capacity building activity. Their 2025 goal is 100% and 80% respectively. 

AMD's environmental goals expand from its 2021 report, where it touted a 17% reduction in energy consumption, a 38% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a 23% reduction in water use, and a 58% reduction in generated waste between the years of 2014 and 2020.

This year, the company claims it is on track to achieve environmental goals surrounding emission reduction and energy efficiency. AMD is targeting a 50% reduction in absolute GHG reduction by 2030, and it has achieved a 25% reduction in scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions in 2021 compared to 2020.

The company’s energy efficiency target for its processors and accelerators is a 30x increase from 2020-2025, and thus far, it reports a “6.8x increase in the energy efficiency of its processors powering servers in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence-training applications.” This increase was updated from achievements midway through 2022 as compared to 2020. 

“The pandemic necessitated the rapid acceleration of digital transformation in businesses, governments, schools and the home,” AMD CEO Lisa Su stated in the 2021 report. “It is now clear high-performance computing is essential to our daily lives and how we work, how we learn and how we connect with each other.”