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Terry

Private Fund Portfolio Manager & Trader

10 Sep, 07:27Latest

AMD is no longer just NVIDIA's backup, because every AI agent needs its own sandbox, which drains CPU and memory capacity. At Citi's TMT conference, AMD pointed to server CPU growth of 80% year on year in the second half and 70% next year, raised its 2030 CPU market estimate from $60 billion to over $220 billion, and targets half of it, a $100 billion business. MI450 GPU revenue starts in Q3, ramps in Q4 and scales in 2027; the constraints are racks, liquid cooling, HBM and packaging. x.com

AMD

Jeff Pu

Technology Equity Analyst at GF Securities

27 Oct

AMD

Agentic AI demand should drive AMD's 2027 data-center growth well over 100% year on year. Server CPU revenue is forecast to double, with over 5 million Venice units shipping in 2027; Helios racks should ramp mostly in Q1 2027, with over 20,000 expected that year, while MI450/455X volume remains limited by end-2026. Projected 2027 sales are $103bn, with 2027 EPS revised up 15% and a new $720 target at 40x 2027 earnings. x.com

Nicholas Mugalli

Institutional TMT & Macro Research, AI/Semiconductors/Policy

25 Aug

AMD

AMD's AI thesis is intact, and the current weakness is temporary macro noise. Raymond James upgraded AMD to Strong Buy with a $641 target, expecting the server CPU market to reach $201 billion by 2030 on a 44% compound annual growth rate as hyperscalers scale for agentic AI. Per Raymond James, AMD offers the cleanest mix of earnings leverage, pure-play data-center exposure and share gains against legacy compute. Hardware demand is accelerating. x.com

Ben Pouladian

Founder of BEP Research, AI Compute Economics

18 Oct

AMD

AMD risks missing large advance rack orders because Helios is still unproven at volume manufacturing. It looked credible on paper at July's Advancing AI, but this is AMD's first rack-scale system; meaningful volume is expected only in 2H27, two quarters past AMD's window. Hyperscalers order racks a year or two before seeing them, and custom inference chips are squeezing AMD from the other side. The photographed Helios rack's cabling underscores how hard it is to build. x.com x.com

IvanaSPEAR

Founder & CIO of Spear Invest, Portfolio Manager of SPRX ETF

22 Sep

INTC

AMD

ARM

AI agents are pushing server CPU demand far beyond current supply, making Arm, AMD and Intel CPUs one of the most attractive ways to get exposure to agentic AI. At about 10 agents per CPU, one agent for each of 100 million US knowledge workers needs 10 million CPUs, and 10 agents each for 1 billion users globally needs 1 billion, about 20x the world's 35-45 million annual server CPU output. AMD now sizes the 2030 server CPU TAM at about $220B, up from $120B, versus a roughly $26B market in 2025. … Show more

Ophir Gottlieb

CEO of CMLviz, Former Options Market Maker

5 Aug

AMD

AMD's server CPUs have become a general compute supercycle in their own right, and that is under-appreciated. Management's 2030 server CPU market estimate rose from about $60 billion at Investor Day to over $120 billion and now about $220 billion; such revisions deserve some skepticism, but the business supports them. Server CPU revenue hit a fifth straight record, with cloud and enterprise both up over 70% on higher units and prices, and data-center growth is producing operating leverage. x.com … Show more

Art of Speculation

Chinese-Language AI Fundamentals & Macro, Concentrated Investing

21 May

INTC

AMD

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.com

Macro_Lin

Semiconductor Analyst, AI Chip Design, Ex-Quant/Portfolio Manager

5 May

INTC

AMD

Agentic AI is turning CPUs into a first-class compute bottleneck, with UBS projecting the server CPU market to grow about 5x to roughly $170B by 2030. Per UBS, 70-80% of agentic work lands on CPUs, raising CPU demand per user 3-8x and the CPU-per-GPU attach ratio from 0.3x toward 0.8x. AMD ranks second behind Arm on multithreading and core density, while Intel benefits least but still rides the tide. Agent work shifting to edge devices could cut the cloud CPU multiplier to about 4x. x.com x.com

Ben Bajarin

CEO & Principal Analyst of Creative Strategies, Semiconductors-to-Software Research

19 Oct

AMD

On-the-ground data, including OCP rack vendors' reports of what they hear from customers, gives a clearer picture of AMD's CPU outlook. AMD's CPUs and GPUs are both in a growth cycle, leaving it on track to outgrow the market. The 14 million GPU figure through 2030 was always above the team's models, as it was for many others; the 2027 GPU sales estimate raised in the discussion was Morgan Stanley's, not theirs. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com

Masa’s Son

Non-Consensus Long/Short Technology Investor

1 Oct

NVDA

AMD

AVGO

Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom look set to see their sales channels stuffed with inventory. x.com

Stocker-Man

Long-Term Growth Investor & Swing Trader, Public Investing Journal

6 May

AMD

AMD's growth runway may be much larger than investors realize, as agentic AI drives a surge in server compute. Management now sees the server CPU market growing 35%+ annually through the decade, surpassing $120B by 2030, because AI agents mean more inference, orchestration, memory movement and server-side processing. Lisa Su reiterated the path to $20+ EPS. AMD looks like it is just getting started, though some trimming toward SoFi, Hims and Oscar is under consideration. x.com x.com

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