Corporate Responsibility

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Overview

At Intel, corporate responsibility and innovation go hand in hand. For decades, we have set ambitious sustainability goals and embedded ethical practices across our global operations.

Corporate Responsibility Report

By integrating corporate responsibility across our business, we have driven meaningful results and challenged ourselves to achieve higher levels of performance over time. Each year, we release a comprehensive report about our efforts, performance, and ambitions.

Executive Summary Report

Get a quick overview of our recent corporate responsibility highlights and strategy.

Resource Center

Download additional resources like Intel’s GRI Index, water and GHG emissions data, political contributions, past reports, and more.

People

Report highlights

Helping Our Managers Grow

We received 80% favorable scores on trust and empowerment metrics in our 2025 Manager Engagement Survey. To address requests for enhanced AI tools, we launched a Manager AI chat series, collaborative learning platforms designed to build AI proficiency, and a Manager Exchange Community of Practice for peer-to-peer collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Empowering the Next Generation

We seek to broaden participation in STEM education and expand technology access in the communities we serve. In 2025, we launched the Semiconductor Education Pathways Program, which aims to strengthen education pathways from K-12 through post-secondary education, as well as help prepare and upskill professionals for the semiconductor industry.

A Safe and Healthy Workplace

We are committed to providing a safe and injury-free workplace, and we invest in programs designed to improve employees’ physical, mental, and social well-being. In 2025, our employees made over 930,000 visits to our on-site fitness centers.

Sustainability

Report highlights

99% Global Renewable Electricity

In 2025, we achieved 100% renewable electricity for our U.S., Europe, Israel, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China locations, and 97% in Costa Rica, bringing the global total to 99%.

Advancing Toward Net Positive Water

We conserved approximately 11.2 billion gallons of water in our operations and community collaborations in 2025 and enabled restoration of 2.8 billion gallons through watershed restoration projects.

Global Waste Solutions

During 2025, we sent approximately 3% of our total waste to landfill. We also applied circular economy practices to approximately 69% of our manufacturing waste streams via reuse, recovery, or recycling.

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Technology

Report highlights

Foundry Innovations

We released our initial processors manufactured using our new Intel 18A technology, which we expect to serve as the manufacturing process for multiple generations of client and server CPU products.

Advancing Energy Efficiency

As growing compute demand drives increases in global energy consumption, we continue to offer both higher product performance and improved energy efficiency with each new generation of products.

Broadening Tech Industry Participation

We remain committed to advancing inclusion and accessibility for millions of people by providing the technology and associated skills needed to access educational, economic, and community resources.

Take a deeper view

To give our stakeholders greater insight into our sustainability work, we regularly report on our plans and progress in a number of areas.

Climate Transition Action Plan

Our Climate Transition Action Plan outlines the steps we plan to take over the next three decades toward more sustainable products and operations to achieve our net-zero targets.

Annual Green Bond Report

In 2022, Intel issued a total of $1.25 billion (B) in green bonds to fund eligible sustainability projects. This report describes the company’s use of proceeds over the previous year.

Water Restoration Progress Report

This report summarizes progress toward our commitment to restore more than 100% of our fresh water consumption—a key component to achieving net positive water.

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Our long history of leadership in corporate responsibility is a competitive advantage for our business. Our commitment to corporate responsibility—built on a strong foundation of transparency, governance, ethics, and respect for human rights—creates value for Intel and our stakeholders by helping us mitigate risks, reduce costs, and build brand value. Read about our strategies, guiding principles, and policies below.

Explore our integrated approach to corporate responsibility

Corporate Responsibility Priority Assessment Process

Our guidelines and guiding principles

Intel's Values

Code of Conduct

The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA)

Intel Political Accountability Guidelines

Intel Global Human Rights Principles and Approach

Responsible AI Principles

Intel Statement on Combating Modern Slavery and Ensuring Transparent Supply Chains

Intel's Support of the SDGs

Our policies

Intel Corporate Accessibility Policy

Intel Climate Change Policy Statement

Responsible Minerals Sourcing Policy

Global Environmental, Health, and Safety Policy

Global Water Policy

Our Commitment to Quality Excellence

Intel Energy Policy

Global Tax Policy

Footnotes

Our website and the reports, press releases, and other documents provided thereon include claims that relate to our greenhouse gas emissions and environmental initiatives and strategy, including claims regarding greenhouse gas emissions, reductions, efforts, and other environmental aspirations. Information regarding these claims, including third-party limited assurance of our greenhouse gas emissions, is available in our disclosures (including archived reports) on this web page.