Advanced Micro Devices sustainability score: 32/100
Better than 36% of Electronics / Hardware
Making progress starts at 46. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a US-based semiconductor and fabless chip design company founded in 1969, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. With ~31,000 employees and FY2025 revenue of $34.6 billion, AMD designs processors and graphics chips for data centre, gaming, and embedded markets.
More about Advanced Micro Devices
The company outsources wafer fabrication to third parties while managing design, engineering, and supply operations.
Founded 1969Head office Santa Clara, United StatesStaff ~31,000 (FY2025)Revenue 34,639,000,000 USD (FY2025)Website ↗
AMD reports a 30% cut in market-based Scope 1+2 emissions since 2020, but Scope 1 has roughly doubled and location-based Scope 1+2 rose 61% over the same period, so the reduction rests on renewable-energy instruments; Greenpeace reports that over 70% of its renewable energy came from unbundled RECs in 2023. Scope 3, mostly the modelled use of sold products, is over 99% of a 24.1 Mt footprint, and AMD has no net-zero target. Greenpeace graded it F on supply-chain decarbonisation. Legacy Superfund contamination at its former Sunnyvale sites is still being remediated, and nature disclosure is thin.
Advanced Micro Devices scores 32/100 (Below expectations) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified October 2026.
That places Advanced Micro Devices joint 658th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 29th of 46 in Electronics / Hardware.
What is Advanced Micro Devices doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Nature & Biodiversity Impact and Emissions Trajectory (2/10, 4/10).
Where Advanced Micro Devices lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Its effect on natureAssess its effect on nature and publish a basic environmental policy.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How it uses materials and handles wasteReport measurable waste or recycling targets publicly.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations8/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain7/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling4/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is5/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
- Its effect on nature2/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste4/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water4/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets4/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies5/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Advanced Micro Devices's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Advanced Micro Devices's score changed?
Advanced Micro Devices's score has moved from 43 to 32 across 3 recorded reviews, down 11 points.
- 32 → 327 November 2026
Correction, 7 November 2026: removed a related-company note naming a customer, supplier or partner without a source. Score unchanged.
- 43 → 32-1117 October 2026
correction: re-sourced 2026-10-17 (live records failing current gates). Re-scored under v2.5.14 from the FY2025 10-K and AMD CR data; full FY2025 inventory (24.1 Mt, ~85% use of sold products) now on record.
- Scored 434 April 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is Advanced Micro Devices's score based on?
8 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
25% of them were published by Advanced Micro Devices itself; the rest come from independent sources.
“Total Scope 1 and 2 Market-based Emissions (mtCO2e) 61,754 46,606 44,190 42,972”
“Help conserve natural resources through product design choices that support energy efficiency, durability, recyclability and resource conservation.”
“only five companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, and Meta, demonstrated concrete actions and quantifiable progress to abate suppliers”
“as much as 98% for AMD in 2024”
“In 1991, we received Final Site Clean-up Requirements Orders from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board relating to the three sites.”
“The second settlement adds Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Northrop) as signatory parties”
“Three acid-neutralization tanks leaked and caused a discharge of trichloroethene (TCE) into soil, groundwater, and soil vapor.”
“The Triple Site gets its name from the three chipmakers responsible for the contamination: Philips, Advanced Micro Devices and TRW Microwave”
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How does Advanced Micro Devices compare with other electronics / hardware companies?
Where Advanced Micro Devices sits among electronics / hardware peers.
Among the 46 major electronics / hardware brands we've scored, Advanced Micro Devices is tied =29th of 46, with 1 other.
Who scores higher in Electronics / Hardware?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Advanced Micro Devices.
Panasonic has strong target-setting (SBTi-verified net-zero) and operational emissions reporting, but faces a massive Scope 3 problem: 125Mt CO2e dwarfs its 1.5Mt direct footprint, reduction pace is slow (2% annually), and renewable energy penetration remains stuck at 32.5%.
See the breakdown →Broadcom reported 3,089,798 tCO2e for 2025, up from 2,631,281 tCO2e in 2024, covering Scope 1, market-based Scope 2 and 12 Scope 3 categories; use of sold products is not reported.
See the breakdown →Garmin reports emissions without third-party assurance, and Scope 2 and Scope 3 both rose in 2025.
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