AMD Commemorates 25 Years of Corporate Responsibility Reporting
July 30 2020 - 9:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced its 25th annual corporate
citizenship update, providing a transparent view of the company’s
corporate responsibility initiatives. This year’s update highlights
how AMD and its technologies are addressing sustainable
technological and scientific advancement, environmental and supply
chain responsibility, workplace inclusion and belonging, and
community support.
“We complete twenty-five years of sustainability reporting
recognizing the role that semiconductors contribute in helping
solve many of the complex challenges our world faces,” said Susan
Moore, corporate vice president of international government affairs
and corporate responsibility at AMD. “As we navigate this changing
world, fueled by the resilience of our employees, communities and
customers, AMD remains focused on responsibly delivering
high-performance technology that helps us achieve more
together.”
Purpose-Built Technology AMD is committed to
developing and deploying its high-performance technology to enable
a better and more sustainable world. In 2020, AMD exceeded its
six-year goal to deliver an unprecedented 25 times energy
efficiency improvement in its mobile processors. The new AMD Ryzen™
7 4800H is 31.7 times more energy efficient than the baseline
metric, far surpassing the award-winning 25x20 Energy Efficiency
goal set in 2014.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, AMD announced the AMD
COVID-19 High-Performance Computing (HPC) Fund to provide research
entities with computing resources powered by AMD EPYC™ servers and
AMD Radeon Instinct™ GPUs to accelerate medical research about
COVID-19 and other diseases. Additionally, AMD is supporting
organizations delivering medical services and humanitarian relief
worldwide, contributing more than $1.2 million USD in grants, to
date, and hundreds of thousands of personal protective
equipment. Operating
ResponsiblyAMD extends its commitment to transparent
reporting throughout its operations and supply chain. AMD values
environmental protection and is currently ahead of target for its
2014-2020 greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals approved by the
Science Based Targets initiative.AMD also increased supply chain
responsibility efforts, engaging with 100 percent of direct
suppliers and conducting additional supplier audits, with a focus
on ensuring all workers are treated with respect and that working
conditions are safe.
Strengthening CommunitiesAMD is dedicated to
positively impacting the communities in which it operates, with a
focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-related
initiatives. Through AMD partnerships with educational
organizations around the world, more than 1,000 students and
teachers are learning in labs powered by the latest generation of
AMD CPUs and GPUs, with ongoing engagement from employee
volunteers.
AMD employees regularly share their time and talents in
community engagement. In 2019, they drove a 10 percent
year-over-year increase in company-sponsored volunteerism to
support the needs of AMD communities spanning STEM education, meal
preparation, park clean-ups and more.
Empowering PeopleAMD fosters a culture of
inclusion and belonging to enable employees to do their best work.
In 2019, AMD expanded its Employee Resource Group (ERG) program
with five new groups and eight new site chapters of existing ERGs,
empowering employees with more ways to celebrate their diversity
and support each other. Aligned with the company’s commitment to
diversity and inclusion and in light of recent events that
highlight the work still ahead to end racism and social injustice,
AMD announced its first steps to cultivate change with donations to
high-impact non-profits focused on social and racial equality and
support for their empowerment, scholarship and mentorship programs.
AMD is committed to helping its employees and communities effect
systemic and lasting change.
Demonstrating its commitment to environmental, social and
workplace progress, AMD continues its track record of company
recognition with features on this year’s Best 100 Corporate
Citizens list, Forbes and JUST Capital JUST 100 ranking, Bloomberg
Gender-Equality Index, and Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Corporate Equality Index.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about Corporate Responsibility at AMD
- Read the summary report
- Follow our progress on Twitter @AMDInitiatives
About AMDFor 50 years AMD has driven innovation
in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization
technologies ― the building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms
and the data center. Hundreds of millions of consumers, leading
Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research
facilities around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve
how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are
focused on building great products that push the boundaries of what
is possible. For more information about how AMD is enabling today
and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog,
Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Contact:Sarah FellerAMD Communications(512)
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