AMD

The Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name

AMD needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. plus AMD Design LLC employer-name variants in the DOL records.

Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 4,404 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 4,502. FY2025 alone accounts for 867 LCA filings.

The USCIS series shown here totals 1,630 approvals across the available approval rows. Where FY2025 rows are initial approvals only, the page labels them that way. LCA filings are not headcount, hired workers, or proof that a specific American worker was replaced.

The Employer Boundary Drives the Count

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is the largest filing name, but the full public footprint depends on combining the affiliated employer rows used for this page.

The peak year in the full-year series is FY2025, with 867 filings. FY2026 currently shows 98 rows and should be read as a partial-year value, not as a final decline.

Workforce Context, Kept in Bounds

AMD's filings are the genuinely-technical end of the spectrum: MTS Silicon Design Engineer, Sr. Silicon Design Engineer, SMTS Silicon Design Engineer, concentrated in Austin, Santa Clara, Boxborough, and Orlando. In 2026, recruiter communications circulated on Reddit's H-1B community reported AMD had stopped offering H-1B sponsorship for new positions, continuing filings only for existing staff, with the observation that new roles would simply move offshore instead. That is the policy tradeoff nobody prices in: when sponsorship tightens, employers with global footprints do not automatically hire Americans; they can relocate the desk.

The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.

The sponsorship halt is community-reported, not an AMD announcement. No enforcement action against AMD appears in the records used here and its wages run above the BLS median.

The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix

The leading occupation is Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, and the leading job title is Mts Silicon Design Engineer; those roles show what part of the labor market the filings reach.

For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $155,977, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $138,535. That is a $17,442 spread over the legal wage floor.

Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market

Austin, Tx leads the mapped worksite list with 2,166 rows for this employer boundary.

Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie

The PERM layer adds 911 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 260 in FY2025.

PERM records are a different process from H-1B petitions, but they matter because the sponsorship timeline can tie a worker to an employer for years.