AMD - Economic Audit

Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships

No public evidence identified of direct supplier relationships between AMD - a fabless semiconductor design company with no retail, agricultural, or grocery supply chain - and Israeli agricultural exporters such as Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, Galilee Export, or Agrexco successor entities. AMD maintains a published authorized-distributor network for its Adaptive SoC and FPGA product lines, inherited from the 2022 Xilinx acquisition, and this distributor listing contains no settlement-specific entries for the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights ¹. No dedicated Israel-origin-goods importer-of-record entity was identified within AMD’s corporate structure; the only Israel-registered operating entity located, Xilinx Israel Limited, is an R&D/engineering subsidiary rather than an import or trading vehicle ². AMD’s Responsible Minerals Sourcing program applies the OECD Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (CAHRA) due-diligence framework to tantalum, tin, tungsten, gold, and cobalt sourcing, but the published materials reviewed are focused on the Democratic Republic of Congo region and do not reference Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, or the Golan Heights ³. No public evidence identified of seasonal sourcing patterns or third-party/indirect sourcing arrangements connecting AMD’s supply chain to the Israeli or occupied Palestinian territory economy, consistent with AMD’s semiconductor-design business model rather than a perishable-goods or consumer-retail model.

Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance

No public evidence identified of AMD selling “Produce of Israel”-labeled or other consumer goods subject to settlement-origin customs or labeling regimes. The only database entry resembling AMD’s name in the Who Profits database - “AMD Real Estate Development & Investment Ltd.” - is a subsidiary of Israel’s Dan Group conglomerate active in East Jerusalem settlement-neighborhood residential projects including Armon HaNatziv, Pisgat Ze’ev, and French Hill; this is a distinct legal entity with no corporate connection to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., and is documented here solely to record and rule out the name-collision ⁴. AMD maintains a Global Human Rights Policy addressing labor and supply-chain due diligence generally, but the policy text reviewed contains no occupied-territory- or Israel/Palestine-specific labeling or sourcing provisions ⁵. AMD’s Xilinx-origin product portfolio includes defense-grade “Zynq 7000 XQ” adaptive SoCs and an “AMD Solutions for Aerospace and Defense” product brief marketed generally for military and aerospace end uses ⁶⁷. No public evidence identified linking these product lines to Israeli Ministry of Defense procurement, IDF end-use, or any Israel-specific export-control classification or license. AMD’s FY2015 Form 10-K disclosed Israel as one of the countries hosting “additional design and development engineering teams,” reflecting SEC-level regulatory recognition of an Israel-based engineering presence, though the filing does not tie that presence to any product-compliance regime ⁸.

Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure

AMD acquired the Israeli startup Graphic Remedy Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based developer of the gDEBugger OpenGL/OpenCL debugging tool, in 2010 for approximately $5 million ⁹¹⁰¹¹. Following that acquisition, AMD announced on 1 June 2011 the establishment of an R&D center in the Tel Aviv/Ramat Gan area, described at the time as one of fifteen global AMD development centers and focused on parallel-computing and Fusion APU ecosystem work ¹⁰¹¹. A commercial registry aggregator lists an entity named “AMD Advanced Micro Devices Israel Ltd” (registration no. 513515247, Tel Aviv-Jaffa) with a status of “voluntarily eliminated” and a last annual report filed in 2018, though this record could not be independently verified via direct registry access and is treated as low-confidence ¹². AMD completed its acquisition of Xilinx, Inc. on 14 February 2022 in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $49–50 billion ¹³. Xilinx’s wholly-owned Israeli operating subsidiary, Xilinx Israel Limited, is listed as 100%-owned in AMD’s FY2023 Form 10-K Exhibit 21.1 subsidiary schedule, filed 31 January 2024 ². AMD Ventures, AMD’s corporate venture arm, participated as a strategic investor in a $50 million Series A funding round for Teramount, an Israeli silicon-photonics startup headquartered in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim technology park, announced 29 July 2025; the round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies with co-investors Samsung Catalyst Fund, Hitachi Ventures, and Wistron, alongside existing investor Grove Ventures ¹⁴¹⁵. That investment postdates both the 19 July 2024 International Court of Justice advisory opinion and the November 2024 International Criminal Court arrest warrants, making it the most recent confirmed instance of new AMD-linked capital deployment into an Israeli entity ¹⁴¹⁵. No public evidence identified of AMD underwriting Israeli sovereign debt, distributing Israel Bonds, or acting as an insurer or lender to Israeli entities, consistent with AMD’s status as a semiconductor company rather than a financial institution. No public evidence identified of AMD or Xilinx Israel Ltd. holding Israeli Preferred Technological Enterprise (PTE) tax-status designation.

Operational Presence & Market Activity

AMD’s Tel Aviv/Ramat Gan-area R&D office, established in 2011 on the Graphic Remedy team, is AMD’s earliest and most consistently documented Israeli physical presence ¹⁰¹¹. Xilinx Israel Ltd. additionally maintains an office in Holon, per a business-directory listing ¹⁶. As of 2026, AMD/Xilinx job listings in Israel show at least one active opening - an FPGA Field Application Engineer role based in Hod HaSharon - indicating the R&D/commercial relationship remains ongoing rather than discontinued ¹⁷. No public evidence identified of a specific current employee headcount for AMD or Xilinx Israel operations despite multiple source classes checked. Located references consistently frame Israel as an R&D and engineering-talent location for AMD rather than a distinct sales or revenue market, with no investor-materials reference to Israel as a discrete market segment identified ¹⁰¹¹. AMD was notably absent from a compiled list of roughly twenty technology companies and funds that publicly offered support or donations to Israel following October 2023 ¹⁸. Har Hotzvim, the Jerusalem technology park hosting AMD Ventures portfolio company Teramount, is described as having been established in the early 1970s and today also hosts Intel, Teva, and Mobileye operations ¹⁹. Industry coverage of chip companies expanding investment in Israel references AMD’s activity in this context, and the same coverage profiles Intel’s substantially larger Israeli manufacturing footprint - including a $25 billion Kiryat Gat expansion representing roughly 5.5% of Israeli high-tech exports - as a scale comparator to AMD’s smaller, R&D-only presence ²⁰.

Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties

AMD was founded in the United States and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California; it is not an Israeli-founded or Israeli-origin company, and no evidence of any dual or legacy Israeli headquarters was identified. AMD has no corporate parent - it is itself the ultimate publicly traded (NASDAQ-listed) parent entity. AMD’s only confirmed Israeli-origin corporate assets are the absorbed Graphic Remedy team and its successor Tel Aviv-area R&D operation ⁹¹⁰¹¹, and Xilinx Israel Limited, acquired as part of the 2022 Xilinx transaction and confirmed as a 100%-owned subsidiary in AMD’s FY2023 Exhibit 21.1 filing ²¹³. AMD’s 2025 and 2026 proxy statements list its board of directors - including Dr. Lisa T. Su as Chair and CEO, together with Nora M. Denzel, Michael P. Gregoire, Joseph A. Householder, John W. Marren, Jon A. Olson/KC McClure, Abhi Y. Talwalkar, and Elizabeth W. Vanderslice - with no disclosed personal or family-office ties to the Israeli defense industry, Israeli military intelligence units, or Israeli company investment identified for any named director ²¹²². No public evidence identified of golden-share, founder-share, or other charter provisions tying AMD’s governance to the Israeli state, nor of Israeli government board appointees. No public evidence identified of AMD holding Israeli government procurement contracts, critical-national-infrastructure designation in Israel, or any direct Israeli Ministry of Defense contracting relationship. AMD is absent from each of the major civil-society tracking resources reviewed for this audit, including the OHCHR Business and Human Rights database ²³²⁴, the BDS Movement’s “No Tech for Oppression, Apartheid or Genocide” campaign list ²⁵, the American Friends Service Committee’s “Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide” list ²⁶, and Wikipedia’s “List of companies involved in the Gaza war” ²⁷. AMD and Xilinx could not be confirmed as present or absent in the PAX “The Companies Arming Israel and Their Financiers” report or the BankTrack/DBIO “Don’t Buy Into Occupation IV” report due to document-access limitations encountered during research, and this is treated as an inconclusive gap rather than a negative finding ²⁸²⁹. The UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” report could likewise not be confirmed to name AMD in the material reviewed ³⁰.

Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution

No public evidence identified of AMD disclosing Israel-specific revenue figures; AMD’s investor-facing geographic revenue segmentation is organized around broad regions rather than individual countries such as Israel. Structurally, because Xilinx Israel Ltd. is recorded as a wholly (100%)-owned subsidiary within AMD’s corporate group, any value generated by its Israel-based R&D operations would flow to the US parent rather than the reverse, consistent with AMD’s non-Israeli beneficial ownership ². No public evidence identified of any specific profit-repatriation disclosure, dividend flow, or intercompany transfer figure between Xilinx Israel Ltd. and AMD’s US parent. No public evidence identified of any industry report or Israeli government designation characterizing AMD as a “key employer” or “sector anchor” within Israel’s high-tech economy; this stands in contrast to comparator companies such as Intel, whose much larger Israeli manufacturing and export role is documented in industry coverage ²⁰. No public evidence identified of AMD-branded factories, data centers, or logistics/distribution hubs generating economic activity in Israel, consistent with AMD’s fabless, R&D-only operating model in the country.

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