AMD competes directly with Nvidia in AI training and inference chips, and its MI350 series is now shipping at scale. It has landed multi-year AI chip supply deals with both OpenAI and Oracle. x.comÂ
Matt Allen
Founder & CEO of Bean Research/BeanWealth, Growth Stocks
AMD could see much more accelerator demand as OpenAI and Anthropic allegedly increase their orders by multiple gigawatts. Nvidia's only real edge over AMD may soon be its size and resources; Lisa Su is a master operator. x.comÂ
AI infrastructure bottlenecks could give eight stocks as much as 18x upside. Nvidia supplies frontier-model GPUs; Broadcom and Marvell supply custom silicon and networking; TSMC makes advanced chips; Micron supplies sold-out HBM; Vertiv provides power and cooling; Palantir monetizes enterprise AI; Alphabet spans TPUs, research, cloud and apps. The list tracks where AI infrastructure spending is flowing. x.com x.comÂ
AMD's valuation leaves little room for error even after stellar earnings. Sustaining 40% annual growth to 2030 gives $200B revenue and $80B net income at a 40% margin; at 20x earnings that is $1.6T, or about $990B discounted at 10%, versus $845B today. The market fears its acceleration coincides with the final stage of AI capex growth, as customers diversify from NVIDIA, a tailwind that may fade as capex growth slows after 2027. A solid hold, but new buyers should wait for a bigger decline. … Show more
AMD has plenty of room to run as it breaks all-time highs, because AI demand is exploding and the company is just getting started. The economy is still growing strongly and tech innovation is accelerating, while bears have called for a crash for years as the market kept climbing. x.comÂ
AMD is having a breakout year as hyperscalers spend more than $600 billion on infrastructure in 2026, about $450 billion of it on AI. Its CPU market share has climbed to 29.2%, and partnerships with OpenAI and Meta show it is no longer playing second fiddle to Nvidia. Its MI300 series is winning data-center workloads, and it is executing on its roadmap with a consistency that deserves respect. x.comÂ
AMD is priced as if it is winning the ecosystem war when it is fighting uphill, which makes it unattractive. Its chips now compete, but Nvidia built CUDA and the tooling everyone runs on, and switching means rebuilding that foundation, which almost nobody wants to do. AMD's realistic opportunity is newer data centers without that foundation, which is what has been happening. Yet nearly every sell-side firm rates it a buy at about 50x forward earnings. x.comÂ
AMD still has further upside. Headlines around the OpenAI 6GW deal, the Meta deal and the Helios rack unveiled at CES 2026 framed AMD as finally catching Nvidia, but asking whether AMD can beat Nvidia is the wrong question; the detailed reasoning is laid out in a separate article. x.comÂ
AMD and Nvidia both stand to gain from an AI chip market that AMD sizes at $1.4 trillion by 2030, growing 45% a year. Token use rose 158x in two years, and running models now takes 60% of compute, driven by agents, a shift AMD expects to be structural. AMD's Helios racks are in full production, Anthropic is locking in up to 2 GW and OpenAI up to 6 GW, and AMD says it is closing its software gap. Nvidia keeps an edge because CUDA is still better and omnipresent. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com … Show more
Intel and AMD face a real shift in competition as NVIDIA moves into CPUs faster and more directly than expected. On NVIDIA's earnings call, Jensen Huang said its new Vera CPU platform will contribute $20 billion of standalone revenue this year. The pressure on Intel and AMD is not just fund rotation but a genuine change in the competitive landscape. x.comÂ
AMD and Nvidia are pulling away from everyone else in the AI chip race; it is not Nvidia against the field. AMD's latest earnings showed revenue up 38% year over year and FY26 guidance raised 10% to $11.2 billion, and the stock jumped 18.5% to $466, past Goldman's $450 target. CEO Lisa Su called it a structural shift in the business. x.comÂ