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Options Prop Trading Firm

29 Sep, 12:36Latest

AMD's $8B acquisition of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs could help it build a platform capable of supporting a $5T company. Putting a top world-model research team beside the Instinct and EPYC designers lets AMD shape silicon around physical-AI workloads before they become obvious. Nvidia's Cosmos and GR00T pull developers into its stack; AMD had no equivalent until now. With Silo AI and ZT Systems, AMD is building models, software and systems; the payoff is AI compute share, not World Labs' revenue. x.com

AMD

21 Sep, 18:14

The market is increasingly valuing AMD as a full-stack AI compute platform rather than a GPU alternative to Nvidia, lifting it to $1 trillion. OpenAI and Meta each committed 6 GW and Anthropic 2 GW from 2027, mostly unshipped; Helios sells GPUs, EPYC CPUs, Pensando networking and ROCm as one rack. Warrants for 160M shares each to OpenAI and Meta mean real dilution as capacity deploys, and near the ~$619 consensus target, the next leg needs higher estimates and execution on 2nm and tight memory. x.com

AMD

Futurum Equities

Market Research for Retail Investors

28 Sep

AMD

AMD's $8.2B all-stock purchase of World Labs, whose models generate and simulate 3D environments from text, images and video, widens its heterogeneous compute thesis. Robotics and simulation are where the re-rating lives, and AMD is buying the stack to reach them. x.com

Daniel Romero

Technology Equity Analyst, Semiconductors/Data Centers/Physical AI

29 Oct

AMD

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.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

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

Wayne Liang

Asymmetric Investment Research, Trade Alerts & Toolkits

5 Sep

AMD

AMD keeps getting picked by emerging architectures, from wafer-scale and quantum to sovereign AI, a strong partnership pattern this year. Cerebras pairs its inference engine with AMD Helios racks, Xanadu runs its photonic quantum software on AMD hardware with AMD FPGAs handling error correction, and Saudi sovereign AI effort HUMAIN went live with AMD providing the full GPU, CPU and ROCm stack. x.com

Oguz Erkan

Investor, Founder of Capitalist Letters

4 Aug

AMD

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

Stone Fox Capital

Founder, CIO & Portfolio Manager of Stone Fox Capital

20 Oct

AMD

AMD has more AI accelerator market-share potential than the 7% forecast suggests. The more likely outcome is at least 15%-20% share, versus the forecast quoted from @pequityresearch. x.com

Bill Brooklyn

Capital Preservation, Asymmetric Risk/Reward, Holding Winners

27 Sep

AMD

AMD could reach $750 from $630 as data center GPU sales surge and momentum in AI workloads stays strong. Real wealth is built by buying in weak weeks like this one and holding, not by buying all-time highs. x.com

Frank Curzio

Founder & CEO of Curzio Research, Wall Street Unplugged Host

5 Aug

AMD

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.com

Antonio Linares

Long-Term Technology & Biotech Investor, Early AMD/TSLA/PLTR/SPOT Positions

23 Sep

AMD

AMD could become a $20 trillion company within five years in a bull case where AI keeps accelerating beyond comprehension. x.com

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