AMD

AMD donates refurbished computers to the Boys & Girls Club of the Austin Area (BGCAA) in Texas and also partners with an all-girls school to support digital inclusivity.

Through AMD Learning Labs, the company provides digital skills training at various levels in different countries around the world. For example, in Canada, China and the United States, it provides hardware and digital literacy support to students through its employee volunteers.

AMD demonstrates a high-level commitment to cybersecurity and has a security incident response team.

AMD supports start-ups through its venture capital fund AMD Ventures. The company provided high-performance computing systems to several universities to support COVID-19 research. Additionally, AMD reports its emissions data and the number of women in tech roles at the company.

AMD can report the participation and impact metrics for its digital access programmes. In addition, it should report the number of people with disabilities it employs and the steps it has taken to create an inclusive workplace for them. It should also disclose how the economic value it generates is distributed among its stakeholders.

The company can expand its support for technical digital skills development.

AMD has an opportunity to elaborate on how it manages cybersecurity and whether its information security management system is internationally certified. Further, as a digital company, AMD should also make a high-level commitment to child online safety.

The company can be more transparent about its R&D activities, especially whether it includes ethical considerations in R&D.

AMD commits to respecting human rights and the ILO core labour rights. It also has a grievance mechanism accessible to all stakeholders to raise human rights concerns and complaints. The company can report on the human rights risks identified in its supply chain and the steps it takes towards prevention, mitigation and remediation of human rights issues. Furthermore, AMD should disclose a process to identify or assess salient human rights risks in its own operations.

AMD publicly commits to respecting worker health and safety, and it places health and safety expectations on its business relationships and monitors their performance. However, while the company discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, it does not provide information on its commitment regarding living wages and working hours. In relation to workforce diversity, the company provides a breakdown of employees in different categories for four indicators of diversity and has 30% women on its board.

AMD has a UK-specific tax strategy overseen by the board; however, it does not report a global tax strategy overseen by an executive or board-level individual or group. In addition, the company lacks relevant disclosure of its lobbying and political engagement. For example, the company does not state that it does not make political contributions and does not disclose its lobbying expenditures for its global operations. However, AMD does have a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationship contracts and has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints on the topic.