Sharemaestro company-news research for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), showing current tone, evidence confidence, direct company coverage, sector and industry context, completed price response and the source headlines used on the page. Scores describe published news evidence. Confidence describes the amount, freshness, source breadth and direct company relevance of that evidence. Price context is shown separately.
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AMD news sentiment
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Company headlines compared by relevance, subject, source independence, tone and the market's completed price response.
Weighted tone66Neutral is 50
Constructive news tone
87/100 evidence confidence
100% direct company focus
37 current stories across 3 publishers
Current company news
Positive news being faded
Constructive news tone is drawn from 37 fresh independent stories, including 37 company-specific items across 3 publishers.
Latest source headline Outlook Therapeutics slides after pricing $55M securities offering seekingalpha.com · 13 Aug 2026 08:17What supports the read
37 current stories are mapped specifically to AMD.
The read spans 3 publishers rather than depending on one outlet.
Cross-story agreement is 85/100, indicating a comparatively coherent tape.
What tempers the read
Constructive headlines are not being rewarded by price, which raises a rejection flag.
66/100
Weighted toneConstructive news tone
87/100
Evidence confidencehigh confidence
100%/100
Company focus37 direct stories
85/100
Evidence agreement15/100 dispersion
News history
Tone and story flow over 21 days
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Weighted toneStory volumeNeutral 50
Evidence confidence
What supports the score
Confidence rises through sample depth, independent publishers, direct company relevance, freshness and agreement. A high or low tone score is not itself evidence of reliability.
Sample depth100
35.23 effective storiesSource breadth60
3 independent publishersDirect relevance100
company-specific evidence shareFreshness88
recency-weighted evidenceAgreement85
cross-story consistencySource independence38
lower publisher concentrationPrice context
Sentiment against the 26-week price path
Constructive headlines are not being rewarded by price, which raises a rejection flag.
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Weekly close, indexedSentiment score
Sentiment confirms active trendPositive but stretched
News subjects
What is shaping the score
Earnings6722 stories · 59%
Market update625 stories · 14%
Analyst action754 stories · 11%
Deals and strategy753 stories · 8%
Guidance642 stories · 5%
Macro sensitivity781 stories · 3%
Source mix
Where the evidence comes from
finance.yahoo.com6929 stories · 78%
nasdaq.com616 stories · 16%
seekingalpha.com732 stories · 5%
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Subjects appearing most often
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Every row shows the public evidence used to understand the read. Direct company stories carry more weight than industry or sector context; duplicate coverage is consolidated before scoring.
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Outlook Therapeutics slides after pricing $55M securities offering
Outlook Therapeutics (OTLK [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/OTLK]) shares fell nearly 15% in premarket trading Thursday after the company priced a public offering of 55.6M shares and warrants for gross proceeds of about $55M. The combined offering price is $0.99 per share and accompanying warrant, with the warrants exercisable immediately at $1.10 per share and expiring five years after issuance. Outlook also granted underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 8.3M shares and/or warrants. The offering [https://seekingalpha.com/pr/20617656-outlook-therapeutics-announces-pricing
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Outlook Therapeutics Prices $55 Mln Offering To Support LYTENAVA Launch; Stock Down
(RTTNews) - Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. (OTLK), a biopharmaceutical company, priced a public offering of 55.56 million shares and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 55.56 million shares at a combined public offering price of $0.99 for each share of common stock and accompanying warrant. The aggregate gross proceeds from the offering are expected to be approximately $55.0 million. Outlook Therapeutics intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to support the commercial launch of LYTENAVA in the United States, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes. Outlook Ther
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- 13 Aug 2026 07:37
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Belite Bio Reports Unaudited Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Provides a Corporate Update
Belite Bio, Inc U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the New Drug Application (NDA) with Priority Review for tinlarebant for the treatment of Stargardt disease type 1 (STGD1); Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date of February 12, 2027 Company presented additional positive secondary endpoint data from the Phase 3 DRAGON trial of tinlarebant at the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) Annual Meeting with quantitative autofluorescence (qAF) showing a marked divergence between treatment groups Conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 13, 2026, at 4:3
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- 13 Aug 2026 01:45
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The 5 Most Interesting Analyst Questions From AMD’s Q2 Earnings Call
AMD's second quarter saw revenue and non-GAAP profit both exceed Wall Street expectations, yet the market reacted negatively. Management attributed the quarter's results to robust adoption of its EPYC server CPUs and Instinct accelerators, particularly within the data center segment, which now makes up nearly 60% of total revenue. CEO Lisa Su highlighted "record server CPU revenue" and noted that sales were powered by cloud and enterprise demand, as well as broader adoption across industries ranging from healthcare to financial services. Declines in gaming revenue partially offset these gains,
AIData CenterEarningsFree Cash FlowGuidanceRevenue Growth
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- 13 Aug 2026 00:29
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Adobe vs. Advanced Micro Devices: Which Technology Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?
Key Points Adobe maintains high profitability with a software ecosystem that serves creative and marketing professionals. Advanced Micro Devices is rapidly expanding its presence in the data center market with high-performance AI accelerators. Which of these technology leaders is the better fit for your growth-oriented portfolio?10 stocks we like better than Adobe › Investors often choose between established software giants and high-growth hardware manufacturers when building a long-term portfolio. Choosing between Adobe(NASDAQ:ADBE) and Advanced Micro Devices(NASDAQ:AMD) involves weighing ste
AI HardwareBalance SheetData CentersGrowth StocksMarketsNet Income
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- 12 Aug 2026 22:09
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Cerebras Systems Reports Solid Earnings. The Stock Is Plunging.
Cerebras Systems stock has had a wild ride in a crowded field. Its stock was down despite a strong earnings report. Continue Reading
EarningsEarnings Report
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- 12 Aug 2026 21:20
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AMD (AMD) Trades at a Premium: Phillip Securities Says AI Growth Justifies It
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is trading at roughly 70x forward earnings, but Phillip Securities believes this premium is justified given its positioning for rising agentic AI demand. On August 11, the firm's analyst Yik Ban Chong reiterated a Buy rating on the stock with a $755.00 price target. According to the firm, AMD's client and gaming business faces softer demand due to higher memory costs, but rising MI450 and Venice demand support the longer-term buy thesis. Raising FY27 AI Expectations Despite an expected cyclical downturn in the client and gaming business, Phillip Securi
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- 12 Aug 2026 21:08
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GF Securities Revisits AI Stock Rebound
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. GF Securities is betting the pullback in artificial-intelligence stocks has largely run its course, adding Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Lumentum (NASDAQ:LITE), Foxconn and Semtech to its preferred list as valuations reset and hyperscalers show greater confidence in AI spending returns. The call favors GPUs, CPUs and optical-networking suppliers over the broader semiconductor sector, suggesting investors should be increasingly selective as the AI rebound enters its next phase. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with AMD. Is AMD fair
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- 12 Aug 2026 19:38
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Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Trades Down, Here Is Why
What Happened? Shares of leading designer of graphics chips Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) fell 2.1% in the afternoon session after investors grew concerned about a massive $500 billion financing plan for AI infrastructure and rising competition from major customers. The chipmaker is reportedly working with financial firms, including Apollo Global and Blackstone, to fund the data centers and power generation needed for the AI boom. This has raised questions about the company's reliance on external funding for growth. Adding to investor unease, billionaire Mark Cuban warned that Nvidia's financing effort
AI InfrastructureCompetitionEarningsMarket ShareSemiconductors
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- 12 Aug 2026 18:05
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Bank of America sends blunt message to Nvidia stock investors
Every few quarters, the debate around Nvidia moves. For a while, it was about whether AI demand was real. Then it was about whether margins could hold. Now, heading into its August 26 earnings report, the question is whether the next product cycle can keep a company already running at this pace from slowing down. Bank of America thinks it can. And the note behind that view is worth reading before the earnings date arrives. Bank of America Nvidia earnings preview and $350 price target In a note shared with TheStreet on August 7, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya called Nvidia (NVDA) his top se
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- 12 Aug 2026 17:47
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Microsoft Stock Drops While Maia Chip Ambitions Expand
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), the software giant behind Azure, fell approximately 1.9% Wednesday morning as investors zeroed in on a potentially important new weapon in its AI race: Microsoft's own chips. Barron's reported that another Maia processor could arrive as early as September. Microsoft has not confirmed that timeline, so September remains speculation rather than a firm launch date. But forget the exact month for a second. The real story is bigger. Microsoft is pouring tens of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, and it does not want to writ
AIAzureCapital ExpenditureSemiconductorsTech
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- 12 Aug 2026 17:23
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Stocks Settle Lower Ahead of Wednesday’s CPI Report
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed down -0.32% on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -0.34%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -0.33%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) fell -0.35%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) fell -0.33%. Stock indices settled lower on Tuesday. The lack of a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz pushed crude oil prices higher, raised inflation expectations, and weighed on stocks. Also, hawkish comments on Tuesday from Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee were bearish for stocks and bonds when he said "the
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- 12 Aug 2026 17:22
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5 Semiconductor Stocks Jim Cramer Could Be Talking About on Thursday
Quick Read NVIDIA guided $91 billion next quarter at 75% gross margins as AMD's Data Center revenue doubled to $6.7 billion year over year. Lam Research surged 82% year to date on five straight earnings beats; Qualcomm's automotive segment delivered its 23rd consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. It sounds nuts, but SoFi1 is giving new Active Invest users up to $3,000 in stock for a limited time, and all it takes is a $50 deposit to get started.2 See for yourself (Sponsor) Jim Cramer is hosting a semiconductor-focused CNBC Investing Club call Thursday at noon. The AI capex cycle is runnin
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AMD Rises 3% as AI Server Demand Stays Strong
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Shares of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD, Financials), a rival to Nvidia in artificial intelligence, gained nearly 2.6% after good earnings and forecast from Super Micro Computer Inc. fueled hopes for ongoing demand for AI servers.Super Micro announced adjusted earnings of $1.70 a share. That was significantly ahead of Wall Street's estimate of $0.96. Its prospects were even better.The company forecast quarterly revenue of $14.5 billion to $15.5 billion, well above the roughly $12.9 billion analysts had projected. It also anticipated revenu
AIEarningsSemiconductorsTech
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- 12 Aug 2026 17:05
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Broadcom is Overvalued at 23.8X P/E: Should You Still Buy the Stock?
Broadcom AVGO shares are overvalued, as suggested by a Value Score of D. In terms of the forward 12-month price/earnings (P/E), AVGO is trading at 23.8X, higher than the broader Zacks Computer and Technology sector's 21.53X. Broadcom is trading at a higher multiple as compared with NVIDIA's NVDA 19.91X but at a discount compared with Marvell Technology's MRVL 41.5X and Advanced Micro Devices' AMD 41.61X. AVGO Shares Are OvervaluedZacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Broadcom shares are trading above the 50 and 200-day moving averages (SMAs), indicating a bullish tr
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- 12 Aug 2026 16:54
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U.S. Dollar Gains Ground As Inflation Rate Meets Expectations: Analysis For EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/CAD, USD/JPY
U.S. Dollar Moves Higher As Inflation Rate Drops To 3.4%DXY 120826 4h Chart U.S. Dollar Index gains some ground as traders focus on CPI report. The report indicated that Inflation Rate declined from 3.5% in June to 3.4% in July, in line with analyst estimates. Core Inflation Rate decreased from 2.6% to 2.5%. Core Inflation Rate has also met analyst expectations. Currently, U.S. Dollar Index is trying to settle above the resistance level at 99.85 – 100.00. In case U.S. Dollar Index manages to settle above the 100.00 level, it will head towards the next resistance, which is located in the 100.50
ForexInflationRatesTreasuries
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- 12 Aug 2026 16:49
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A $9.1 billion AI deal just changed this Bitcoin miner’s story
Riot Platforms (RIOT) has built its company for years around one exceedingly volatile asset: Bitcoin. Artificial intelligence may be offering it a completely unique future. Riot has signed a deal with Anthropic, the company behind Claude, to offer 191 megawatts of data-center capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, site, Barron's reported, in a deal worth about $9.1 billion for 20 years. There's a major caveat, however. Riot is not getting $9.1 billion up front, Bloomberg noted. That sum is estimated revenue over 20 years. The overall deal's worth may reach approximately $16.1 billion with two possib
AI InfrastructureBitcoin MiningData CentersEnergy DemandLong Term ContractsTotal Revenue
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Intel's $20B capital raise likely removes overhang, UBS says
Intel's (INTC [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/INTC]) $20B capital raise announcement [https://seekingalpha.com/news/4630452-intel-upsizes-stock-offering-to-20b-prices-at-95] this week likely removes any overhang from the stock, investment firm UBS said on Wednesday. “When combined with pre-payments and financial commitments that we expect to accompany several forthcoming foundry deals (Google for EMIB-T, AAPL for M-Series, AMD, SPCX, and potentially a few more), we believe the raise will allow INTC to fund its foundry buildout,” UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri wrote in a note to clients. “Overall
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- 12 Aug 2026 16:33
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Advanced Micro Devices vs. Alphabet: Which Artificial Intelligence Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?
Key Points Advanced Micro Devices is rapidly expanding its footprint in the data center market through specialized artificial intelligence accelerators and high-performance computing solutions. Alphabet maintains a dominant position in global advertising while achieving significant revenue growth and high net margins in its cloud computing division. Which of these technology powerhouses deserves a spot in your portfolio for 2026?10 stocks we like better than Advanced Micro Devices › In today’s rapidly expanding artificial intelligence sector, investors have a choice between the high-growth pot
Artificial IntelligenceBalance SheetCloud ComputingDigital AdvertisingGrowth RateMarkets
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Cerebras Earnings Prediction Market Preview: What Will Andrew Feldman Say?
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Cerebras Systems Inc.(NASDAQ:CBRS) reports second-quarter earnings after the bell today, its second report as a public company. Analysts expect a loss of roughly 17 cents per share, while Cerebras has guided to core revenue of about 194 million dollars, up 88% from a year ago. On Kalshi, traders are betting on which words CEO Andrew Feldman and his team will say on the call. What Kalshi Predicts Cerebras Will Say "AMD" leads the board at 96%, with "Disaggregated" at 90% and "Helios" close behin
AIData CentersEarningsTech
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- 12 Aug 2026 15:41
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Super Micro Computer Q4 Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenues Rise Y/Y
Super Micro Computer, Inc. SMCI reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 non-GAAP earnings of $1.70 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 68 cents. The bottom line increased 315% year over year. SMCI generated net sales of $11.12 billion, which increased 93% year over year and 9% sequentially. Revenues also beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.09%. The strong performance reflected continued demand for AI infrastructure, as well as a sharp pickup in enterprise and channel activity. SMCI Sees Strong AI Demand Despite Customer Readiness Delays Super Micro Computer's fourth-quarter reven
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- 12 Aug 2026 14:56
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MYR Group and Turtle Beach have been highlighted as Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day
For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – August 12, 2026 – Zacks Equity Research shares MYR Group Inc. MYRG as the Bull of the Day and Turtle Beach Corp. TBCH as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Intel Corp. INTC, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD and NVIDIA Corp. NVDA. Here is a synopsis of all five stocks: Bull of the Day: MYR Group Inc. is a great buy-and-hold stock to ride converging megatrends across AI, energy, electrification, and beyond. The specialty electrical contractor posted another strong beat-and-raise quarter at the end of July, with its bac
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- 12 Aug 2026 14:28
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TSMC & Sony Establish JV in Japan to Develop Smartphone Image Sensors
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSM, or TSMC, and Sony Semiconductor Solutions have executed a legally binding definitive agreement to establish Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, a joint venture (JV) in Kumamoto, Japan. The JV will focus on developing and manufacturing smartphone image sensors, with volume production set to start in 2029. The latest move follows the non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) the companies signed in May to pursue a strategic partnership for next-generation image sensor development and manufacturing. The collaboration also ai
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- 12 Aug 2026 13:37
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NVIDIA's $500B Funding Push: Can It Unlock More Revenue Growth?
NVIDIA Corporation NVDA is taking a major step to accelerate the AI infrastructure buildout by partnering with six leading financial institutions to create financing platforms that could mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital over time. The partnerships involve Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The initiative could become an important growth catalyst because financing has emerged as a key hurdle for customers seeking to build large AI factories. By connecting customers with long-term capital, NVIDIA aims to make it easier for AI labs, enterprises
AI InfrastructureEarningsFinancingRevenue GrowthSemiconductors
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- 12 Aug 2026 13:22
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ARKX vs. NASA ETF: Identical Fees, Different Space Strategies
Comparing ARK Space & Defense Innovation ETF (NYSEMKT:ARKX) and Tema Space Innovators ETF (NYSEMKT:NASA) reveals two high-growth strategies with identical management fees but differing approaches to the burgeoning commercial space economy. The space industry is no longer just the realm of government agencies; it is an expanding commercial frontier attracting significant private capital. Investors looking for exposure to this high-growth sector often compare the ARK Space & Defense Innovation ETF and the Tema Space Innovators ETF as they seek growth beyond Earth. Snapshot (cost & size) Metric A
ETFInvestment StrategySpace Industry
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- 12 Aug 2026 13:05
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Intel vs. Qualcomm: Which Chip Stock is the Better Buy Now?
Intel Corporation INTC and Qualcomm Incorporated QCOM are two premier U.S.-based semiconductor firms focusing on AI (artificial intelligence), advanced chip technologies and the data center semiconductor ecosystem. Both are competing hard in the AI-powered PC processor market, with Intel pushing Xeon-based AI infrastructure and Qualcomm expanding its AI accelerator and data-center CPU roadmap, expanding its Snapdragon X lineup into Windows laptops and desktops. Intel is currently focusing on AI chips for data centers and PCs, which marks one of the largest architectural shifts for the company
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PHOX Targets the AI Infrastructure Bottleneck Most Investors Miss
Quick Read Broad semiconductor ETFs allocate only single-digit weight to photonics pure-plays, leaving optical interconnects nearly invisible in most portfolios even as they emerge as AI's key data center bottleneck. PHOX's 0.60% expense ratio beats mainstream semiconductor ETFs at 0.35% only if concentrated photonics holdings outperform the broader AI capex trade over time. Best sized as a 2% to 5% satellite position, PHOX demands that investors tolerate drawdowns of 30% or more, as this is a single-subsector bet with no track record. It sounds nuts, but SoFi1 is giving new Active Invest user
AIData CentersEarnings ReportETFPhotonicsSemiconductors
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- 12 Aug 2026 12:38
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Japanese self-driving startup Turing plans U.S. office, $10B IPO
Turing, a Tokyo-based autonomous-driving startup, plans to open a U.S. office within the next year and is targeting a potential American stock listing within five years at a valuation of roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Chief Executive Issei Yamamoto said the U.S. office will initially concentrate on data collection and research and development. "The U.S. is our next major target market after Japan," Yamamoto said, pointing to the large American presence of Japanese automakers as a key factor. Instead of building cars or robotaxis, Turing focuses on developing the aut
Autonomous DrivingIPORevenue GrowthTech
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- 12 Aug 2026 12:28
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Four key things investors will watch in Nvidia’s earnings next week
Investing.com -- Goldman Sachs said in a note Wednesday that investors will focus on several key issues when Nvidia reports its latest quarterly results on August 26, from its newly announced financing platform to the shape of its Rubin product ramp. Analyst James Schneider reiterated a Buy rating and $285 price target on NVDA, expecting "a solid quarter with meaningful upside to guidance supported by tight GPU supply/demand trends." He cautioned, however, that "the bar for the stock is elevated given its +12% move in two weeks." The first area of focus is Nvidia's recently announced $500 bill
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- 12 Aug 2026 11:03
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AMD Trades at 63x Forward Earnings, While Nvidia Trades at 24x. History Says This Is the Better Buy.
In the rapidly expanding semiconductor ecosystem, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stand as pivotal players powering the compute backbone of artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia dominates with its Blackwell and Rubin GPU architectures, which deliver industry-leading performance for large-scale training and inference workloads. Meanwhile, AMD contributes complementary technology via its Instinct MI-series accelerators and Epyc processors, offering high-performance CPUs and GPUs that hyperscalers integrate for cost-effective AI clusters. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This
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Financial Giants Jump Amid Nvidia AI Funding Deal; 1 Eyes Breakout
Nvidia will work with six leading investment companies, including Apollo Global Management, to secure massive new funding for artificial intelligence infrastructure. APO stock jumped near a buy point on Tuesday, extending Monday's rally along with the other financial stocks. Continue Reading
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Cerebras Stock Gets a Boost. Wedbush Sees More Upside Ahead of Earnings
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ:CBRS) is heading into its quarterly results with Wedbush maintaining a positive view, while investors also await potential product news at the company's Supernova event next week. Wedbush kept its Outperform rating and $280 price target. Analyst Matt Bryson said data-center capacity remains a key limitation for Cerebras, which has secured about 215 megawatts for 2026 but still relies on rented infrastructure to meet some OpenAI demand. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Signs with CBRS. Is CBRS fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Cerebras has also expanded its partnerships. Deals with CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) could provide additional business beyond current expectations, including an infrastructure platform combining Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine technology with AMD's Helios system. Attention is also turning to Aug. 18, when Cerebras hosts Supernova. Wedbush expects the event could provide a setting for the company to introduce WSE-4, its next-generation AI processor, which may improve performance and create room for higher pricing and margins. The firm said Cerebras may also benefit from its use of SRAM rather than high-bandwidth memory and its manufacturing approach, potentially reducing exposure to some industry supply constraints as AI accelerator demand expands. View Comments
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Wedbush Flags Surprise AMD Catalyst From Anthropic
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. AMD Gets Fresh AI Demand Signal From Anthropic Data Center Deal Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) is getting another potentially important signal that its Anthropic partnership could translate into substantial real-world AI infrastructure demand. Wedbush says Anthropic's reported 191-megawatt data center agreement with Riot Platforms (NASDAQ:RIOT) reinforces the durability of AI spending and could prove particularly positive for AMD as the chipmaker prepares to supply Anthropic with its next-generation AI accelerators. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with AMD. Is AMD fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Riot Platforms is best known historically as a Bitcoin miner, but the company is increasingly repositioning its large power portfolio toward AI and high-performance computing. Its strategy centers on leasing power and data center capacity to technology customers, potentially creating longer-duration and more predictable revenue than cryptocurrency mining. Riot announced a 20-year agreement this week to provide 191 MW of capacity to a leading frontier AI company, which has been reported to be Anthropic. Capacity is expected to phase in with 96 MW by December 2027 and the remainder by June 2028. Wedbush analyst Matt Bryson sees the buildout as significant for the broader AI hardware ecosystem. Delivery phases in with 96MW by December 2027 and the balance by June 2028. Riot has now leased 241MW in total, having already delivered 25MW to AMD with a further 25MW under construction, Bryson wrote. We see continued datacenter build-outs/lease agreements as a sign of the durability of AI demand, with positive implications for our broader hardware universe. The AMD angle is particularly notable because Anthropic and AMD already announced a much larger strategic partnership in July. Anthropic plans to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450-series GPUs, with the first gigawatt scheduled to begin deployment in the first half of 2027. That commitment is landing as AMD's data center business accelerates sharply. Second-quarter data center revenue reached $6.7 billion, up 107% year over year, and accounted for 58% of company revenue. AMD expects companywide third-quarter revenue of about $13 billion, plus or minus $300 million. Investor Takeaway On AMD Stock For AMD investors, Riot's deal matters less as a direct revenue event than as evidence that Anthropic is securing the physical infrastructure required for enormous future AI deployments. AMD has already said Anthropic's first gigawatt of MI450 capacity should begin rolling out in the first half of 2027. Story Continues The key metrics to watch are therefore AMD's data center growth, MI450 and Helios deployment timing, gross margins and whether Anthropic ultimately expands toward the full 2-GW commitment. AMD currently expects data center sales growth to accelerate during the second half of 2026. Delays in data center construction, power availability or GPU deployment would weaken the read-through, while additional Anthropic capacity agreements would strengthen the case that AMD's giant AI commitments are moving from announcements toward actual infrastructure spending. View Comments
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Why Anthropic’s $9 Billion Deal With Riot Is a Watershed Moment for Bitcoin Miners
Riot Platforms, the Bitcoin miner-turned-data center operator, has struck a $9.1 billion compute supply deal with Anthropic, a source tells Barron’s. Continue Reading
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Nvidia Rises Amid Massive Wall Street Partnership; Is Nvidia A Buy Now?
Nvidia rises in a base on Tuesday after the company announced a partnership with large investment banks to raise $500 billion. Continue Reading
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Nvidia Confirms $500 Bil AI Funding Deal. These Stocks Jump.
Nvidia confirmed late Monday that it will work with six of the world's largest financial companies to secure $500 billion in funding for artificial intelligence infrastructure. The financial stocks jumped on Tuesday. Continue Reading
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Riot Stock Soars. What Its $9 Billion Anthropic Cloud Deal Means For the AI Boom.
Riot Platforms, the Bitcoin miner-turned-data center operator, has struck a $9.1 billion compute supply deal with Anthropic, a source tells Barron’s. Continue Reading
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Riot Platforms Stock Surges on $9.1 Billion AI Compute Supply Deal With Anthropic
Riot Platforms, the Bitcoin miner-turned-data center operator, has struck a $9.1 billion compute supply deal with Anthropic, a source tells Barron’s. Continue Reading
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Can NVIDIA's Vera CPU Challenge Intel and AMD's Market Dominance?
NVIDIA Corporation NVDA is taking a bigger step into the CPU (Central Processing Unit) market with its Vera processor, designed specifically for agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The move could give NVIDIA another growth engine while increasing pressure on established server CPU leaders Intel Corporation INTC and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD. NVIDIA's Vera CPU is up to 1.8 times faster than x86 processors on workloads. The Vera CPU is designed to work closely with NVIDIA GPUs (graphics processing units), networking and software, allowing customers to build complete AI systems rather than relying on separate CPU and accelerator platforms. This integrated approach could be particularly attractive as AI agents require more computing power for reasoning, planning and data processing. Vera CPU is also gaining support from major technology companies. Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX are among the AI organizations planning to adopt the platform, while Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Lenovo and Super Micro Computers are preparing Vera-based systems. NVIDIA's AI ecosystem gives Vera CPU an additional advantage and could help it gain meaningful server CPU share. The traction of Vera CPU will further boost NVIDIA's data center end-market business. The company's data center revenues reached a record $75.25 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, rising 92% year over year. Analysts' projections suggest that the growth momentum in the data center business will continue. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for NVIDIA's data center revenues is pegged at $363.78 billion, indicating year-over-year growth of approximately 88%. NVIDIA's Rivals Have Deep CPU Expertise to Defend Their Lead NVIDIA's Vera CPU enters a market where Advanced Micro Devices and Intel have established customer relationships and large server CPU businesses. AMD is the more direct growth challenger. Its data center revenues surged 107% year over year to $6.72 billion in the second quarter of 2026, driven by strong demand for EPYC processors and Instinct GPUs. Advanced Micro Devices is also seeing rising demand from AI workloads, including agentic AI, which directly overlaps with Vera's target market. Its broad CPU-and-GPU portfolio gives customers an alternative to NVIDIA's integrated platform. Intel remains a major force in server CPUs through its Xeon portfolio. Its data center and AI business generated $6.26 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 59% year over year. Intel's latest Xeon processors are also designed to handle AI workloads, helping the company defend its position as AI increases demand for high-performance CPUs. Story Continues NVIDIA has an important advantage because Vera is designed to work closely with its GPUs, networking and software. However, AMD's rapid growth and Intel's large installed base mean NVIDIA will need to prove that Vera can deliver clear performance and efficiency benefits before it can seriously disrupt the CPU market. NVIDIA's Price Performance, Valuation and Estimates Shares of NVIDIA have risen around 16.6% year to date, underperforming the Zacks Computer and Technology sector's gain of 18.1%. NVIDIA YTD Price Return PerformanceZacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research From a valuation standpoint, NVDA trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 19.93, below the sector's average of 21.59. NVIDIA Forward 12-Month P/E RatioZacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The Zacks Consensus Estimate for NVIDIA's fiscal 2027 and 2028 earnings implies a year-over-year increase of approximately 90.6% and 38.3%, respectively. Estimates for fiscal 2027 and 2028 have been revised upward over the past 30 days.Zacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research NVIDIA currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Researc
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Riot Stock Soars as It Lands a $9.1 Billion AI Cloud Deal
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Riot Platforms (NASDAQ:RIOT), a Bitcoin miner that has moved into selling AI data-center capacity, rose 18.87% premarket after striking a 20-year deal to supply 191 megawatts of computing to Anthropic from its Rockdale, Texas campus, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. Riot said it expects the contract to generate $9.1 billion in revenue through June 2048, and that two five-year extension options could lift total sales to as much as $16.1 billion. The deal fits a growing shift. Bitcoin miners, sitting on cheap power and dense computing infrastructure, are repurposing it for AI as demand for data centers outruns supply. Riot, which started as a biotech-equipment maker before moving to crypto, has also signed a separate arrangement with AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) to build computing, and its data-center business helped it beat on second-quarter sales. For Anthropic, the deal is one of several. The Claude developer recently signed a $10 billion agreement with the infrastructure startup Volta Infra and agreed in May to buy nearly $45 billion of computing from Elon Musk's xAI, moves aimed at meeting AI demand it has struggled to keep pace with. View Comments
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Anthropic’s $965B IPO Path Runs Through Seven Compute Corridors Across Three Continents
Anthropic's $965 billion IPO path rests on the aggressive, multi-layered industrialization of compute. The company has transformed access from a variable cost into a structural moat by diversifying hardware and energy supply across three continents through seven distinct funding mechanisms — effectively decoupling its growth from the supply-chain bottlenecks that throttle competitors tethered to single-cloud dependencies. The portfolio maps a global footprint. In North America, the core relies on a multi-billion dollar agreement with AWS for Trainium chips and Project Rainier clusters, alongside capacity from Google TPUs, the SpaceX Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, AMD Instinct GPUs, and Microsoft Azure. The strategy extends to Europe via a $10 billion, six-year deal with Volta Infra in Norway, securing 133 MW of hydro-powered capacity housing Nvidia Vera Rubin hardware. Preliminary talks with Meta and reported Asia-Pacific activity round out a portfolio designed so that no single geopolitical or supply-chain failure can halt the company's inference engine. The financial engineering is the real story. Anthropic has stacked $71 billion in off-balance-sheet chip-lease debt through special purpose vehicles arranged by Apollo and Blackstone, with Broadcom providing a residual value backstop on roughly $30 billion of senior tranches. A preliminary $36 billion follow-on follows the same blueprint. The SPV acquires Google TPUs, leases them back to Anthropic, and the senior notes carry Broadcom's investment-grade credit rather than Anthropic's. The Volta arrangement adds a different mechanism: a $1.3 billion standby letter of credit from J.P. Morgan that shifts credit risk away from the seven-month-old startup and onto established financial institutions. Seven mechanisms, seven financing structures. AWS operates on a multi-billion dollar compute agreement. Google TPUs are funded through SPV-structured private credit. SpaceX Colossus runs on a ~$1.25 billion monthly lease through May 2029. AMD is committing up to $5 billion in strategic equity investment alongside 2 GW of Instinct MI450 capacity starting in H1 2027. Azure provides a third distribution channel without bespoke hardware. Volta anchors the European footprint through SBLC-backed credit substitution. Meta remains in preliminary talks. This infrastructure-first approach justifies the $965 billion post-money valuation established by the May 2026 Series H. Revenue scaled from $10 million ARR in early 2023 to $47 billion by May 2026 — roughly 4,700x in 41 months, with Claude Code alone contributing approximately $8 billion and enterprise API comprising 80 to 85 percent of the mix. The implied 20.5x annualized revenue multiple prices in not just model quality but the physical infrastructure required to deliver it. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan are leading the underwriting for a confidential S-1 filed June 1, targeting October. Story Continues The Volta deal carries a source caveat worth noting: Bloomberg identified Anthropic as the unnamed lab on August 4, but Anthropic declined to comment. Reuters confirmed the agreement exists but could not independently verify the counterparty. Deal terms should be treated as reported. The broader implication is that Anthropic has achieved something none of its peers have managed: a compute architecture where no single landlord, cloud provider, or hardware vendor controls the bottleneck. Whether through off-balance-sheet SPVs, standby letters of credit, or direct equity investment, the company has assembled a funding mechanism for each major hardware and geography pairing. This trajectory completes the Compute Landlord Thesis, extending it through the SPV debt iteration, the SpaceX equity model, and the Google financing web. The $965 billion question for investors is not whether Claude is the best model. It is whether the machine running it — spread across seven corridors and three continents — can sustain the velocity that made $
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Stock Screening Made Simple: A Guide
Stock screening is commonly deployed by investors to 'cut through the noise.' The approach is especially useful when considering the thousands of options to choose from, which can often overwhelm investors. Taking a different angle, screening is essentially the same idea as constructing a grocery list. A list helps you easily navigate a store, allowing you to quickly find what you're looking for without wasting a chunk of time. Still, screening is often seen as overwhelming and confusing, particularly when investors are unsure what to look for in a company. In addition, it's not as simple as a one-screen-fits-all approach, as market participants all have different preferences. Let's take a closer look at screening and a few parameters available at Zacks that investors can deploy to find the stocks that they want. Screening Parameters Parameters can be seen as the 'ingredients' of a recipe, excluding any irrelevant information. Digging deeper, parameters can be fine-tuned for any investing style, whether that be momentum, value, growth, or income-based. Value Investing Value investors can add several parameters to their screens to find high-quality stocks trading at a discount. A few of these include the Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio, the Price-to-Sales (P/S) ratio, and the Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio. Zacks has several premium screens tailored toward value-focused strategies that have these parameters built in. Momentum Investing Momentum investing is all about riding the current trend, jumping into stocks that have enjoyed buying pressure. A few parameters investors can deploy for momentum-focused screens include the percentage price change in the stock over the last month, average volume, and price as a percentage of the 52-week high-low range. Zacks has many momentum-based screens with these parameters built in. Growth Investing Growth-oriented strategies are aimed at companies expected to grow their sales and earnings at an above-average level, a development that commonly leads to share outperformance. A few key parameters for growth investors include last year's earnings and sales growth rates, expected growth rates for the current year, and the long-term expected EPS growth rate. One of the Zacks premium growth screens provided us with a few stocks upon running: Micron MU and Advanced Micro Devices AMD, two great examples of companies that have enjoyed rapid growth. Income Investing Income-focused investing is all about passive income, with dividend-paying stocks commonly being more 'stable.' Many dividend-paying companies are mature and, at the end of their growth cycle, opting to share profits with shareholders rather than reinvesting for the future. A few parameters investors can deploy when searching for dividend-paying stocks include current dividend yield and the 5-year historical dividend growth rate. No different than those above, Zacks already has several premium income-focused screens available for use. Story Continues Bottom Line Screens are very useful tools for investors to filter out the noise, allowing for full focus on preferred parameters. The process can often be overwhelming, though, with some unsure of what parameters to include. However, for those not interested in building out an individual screen, Zacks has many pre-built screens tailored toward common strategies, a list that includes growth, value, momentum, and income. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) : Free Stock Analysis Report Micron Technology, Inc. (MU) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com). Zacks Investment Research View Comments
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Intel (INTC) Tripled This Year, But Can a $15B Share Sale Stop the Momentum?
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) shares have nearly tripled this year, outrunning AMD (NASDAQ:AMD), Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index's nearly 75% climb. On August 10, the company said it would sell $15 billion of new stock to fund its push into contract chip manufacturing, and shares fell more than 4% in early trading. That marked a significant shift for a company experiencing a notable operational turnaround in the semiconductor sector.Intel (INTC) Tripled This Year, But Can a $15B Share Sale Stop the Momentum? Bull Case: The AI Boom Finally Shows Up In The Numbers Intel's data center and AI segment grew revenue 59% year-over-year in the second quarter, accelerating from 22% growth in the first quarter, as the shift toward AI agents pushed CPU demand past what Intel's factories could supply. Total revenue rose 25% year over year, the fastest pace in more than 15 years. Nvidia chose Intel's Xeon 6 platform to host its DGX Rubin NVL8 systems, evidence that even AI's biggest winner still needs Intel's chips. Margins are catching up to the growth: operating margin jumped to 39.5% from 16.1% a year earlier, and gross margin rose to 41.8% from 29.7%. Adjusted net income, which excludes one-time charges, climbed from $1.5 billion in the first quarter to $2.2 billion in the second, alongside $7.0 billion of operating cash flow. The foundry side is landing real customers too. Foundry revenue grew 31% to $5.8 billion, and Intel committed to high-volume production on its 14A process in 2028, after once warning the technology could be shelved. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) signed on as a 14A customer, and hopes for a second marquee client grew after President Trump said Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) would make processors with Intel, though neither side confirmed it. Bear Case: The Bill For All That Growth Keeps Climbing That growth is not free. Intel's capex totaled $12.1 billion over the trailing 12 months and is accelerating, with management raising this year's guidance from $18 billion to $20 billion in July and warning that 2027 spending will be "significantly above" this year's levels. The foundry unit meant to justify that spending still lost $2.1 billion in the quarter. Investors have not been forgiving: Intel shares fell 35.4% in July as a broader chip sell-off wiped out $1 trillion of value across the 20 largest semiconductor companies, and the stock dropped more than 8% the day second quarter results came out. The reported losses add to the unease, even if the accounting behind them is unusual. Intel's trailing 12-month net loss runs about $11.3 billion, driven mostly by a $12.5 billion non-cash charge tied to shares held in escrow under its CHIPS Act agreement. As investment director Russ Mould put it, Intel spent the 2010s "wrecking its own balance sheet" with $82 billion of buybacks, which is part of why raising equity now, after the stock's five-fold climb since last August, "makes perfect sense." Story Continues What The Positioning Data Shows Hedge fund ownership rose to 112 funds last quarter from 96 the quarter before, pointing to accumulating institutional conviction. Short interest is just 2.4% of the float, a level that shows little organized skepticism. Yet the stock trades at 80 times forward earnings as of August 10, a multiple that already assumes the turnaround keeps compounding. That combination, rising ownership against a stretched multiple, helps explain why a $15 billion share sale landed as unwelcome news rather than routine financing. Where This Leaves Investors Intel's turnaround case rests on real numbers: accelerating AI demand, expanding margins, and a foundry business finally landing customers like Tesla. The counter case is just as real, since capital spending is climbing faster than foundry profits and the stock already prices in years of execution that haven't happened yet. The $15 billion raise cuts both ways, funding the buildout while diluting shareholders at a moment the market was already nervous
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AMD Brings Meta's New AI Model to PCs
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD, Financials), the chipmaker competing with Nvidia in AI computing, is bringing Meta's new Muse Glimmer 30B model directly to supported PCs and workstations. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with AMD. Is AMD fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. The model can run on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ processors and Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics cards, giving developers another way to use advanced AI without sending every workload to the cloud. That is the real appeal. Running models locally can reduce cloud costs while keeping sensitive files and data on the user's own system, something that could matter as AI agents handle more private information. AMD said preliminary testing produced speeds of up to 24 tokens per second on a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor and up to 53 tokens per second using a Radeon AI PRO R9700. The company is also working with LM Studio and Lemonade to make the model easier for developers to run and integrate. AMD shares slipped about 1.2% Monday, suggesting investors want more than technical progress. The bigger test is whether local AI adoption starts translating into stronger demand for AMD hardware. View Comments
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What Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'s New Instinct Coder AI Stack and Data Center Push Means For Shareholders
In early August 2026, Advanced Micro Devices reported second-quarter 2026 results showing higher sales and net income versus a year earlier, while also issuing revenue guidance for the third quarter and unveiling AMD Instinct Coder, a turnkey enterprise AI inference solution built with Spectro Cloud and Supermicro on Instinct MI325X GPUs. Together with its planned acquisition of AI inference startup Taalas and large-scale data center capacity partnership with Core Scientific, AMD is intensifying its push to offer full-stack AI hardware and software for cloud and enterprise customers. Now we'll examine how Instinct Coder's enterprise AI focus and these moves affect AMD's existing investment narrative around AI data centers. The future of work is here. Discover the 37 top robotics and automation stocks leading the charge in AI-driven automation and industrial transformation. Advanced Micro Devices Investment Narrative Recap To own AMD today, you need to believe its AI data center push, from Instinct GPUs to full systems, can keep turning strong headline growth into durable earnings, despite a rich valuation and geopolitical or regulatory risks. Q2 results and Q3 guidance reinforce data center as the key near term catalyst, while the biggest current risk is that high expectations and export or inventory pressures limit how much of that AI momentum ultimately shows up in sustainable profit growth. Among the latest announcements, Instinct Coder stands out because it ties AMD's Instinct MI325X GPUs directly to enterprise AI inference, turning raw accelerators into a ready to deploy private AI product. Paired with the Core Scientific data center capacity deal, it reinforces the catalyst that AMD is not just selling chips but trying to participate in larger AI infrastructure budgets, even as investors weigh high earnings multiples and the possibility that export controls or cost inflation could tighten margins over time. Yet behind the strong growth and AI story, investors should also be aware that... Read the full narrative on Advanced Micro Devices (it's free!) Advanced Micro Devices' narrative projects $106.2 billion revenue and $28.9 billion earnings by 2029. This requires 41.6% yearly revenue growth and an earnings increase of about $24.0 billion from $4.9 billion today. Uncover how Advanced Micro Devices' forecasts yield a $487.90 fair value, in line with its current price. Exploring Other PerspectivesAMD 1-Year Stock Price Chart Some of the lowest estimate analysts were already cautious, assuming revenue of about US$88.2 billion and earnings of US$15.0 billion by 2029, and worry that rising R&D and foundry costs could pressure margins even if AMD's new AI systems like Instinct Coder gain traction, so it is worth weighing their more pessimistic view alongside the upbeat consensus before you decide how this evolving AI narrative fits your own expectations. Story Continues Explore 30 other fair value estimates on Advanced Micro Devices - why the stock might be worth as much as 88% more than the current price! Reach Your Own Conclusion Disagree with existing narratives? Extraordinary investment returns rarely come from following the herd, so go with your instincts. A great starting point for your Advanced Micro Devices research is our analysis highlighting 3 key rewards and 2 important warning signs that could impact your investment decision. Our free Advanced Micro Devices research report provides a comprehensive fundamental analysis summarized in a single visual - the Snowflake - making it easy to evaluate Advanced Micro Devices' overall financial health at a glance. Interested In Other Possibilities? Early movers are already taking notice. See the stocks they're targeting before they've flown the coop: Uncover the next big thing with 20 elite penny stocks that balance risk and reward. Rare earth metals are the new gold rush. Find out which 28 stocks are leading the charge. Find 52 companies with promising cash flow potential yet
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Taalas Buyout Boosts AMD's AI Inference Abilities Against NVDA & GOOGL
Advanced Micro Devices AMD announced on Thursday (Aug. 6) that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based developer of specialized AI inference silicon, as the company looks to strengthen its position in the rapidly expanding AI inference market. Taalas' technology is designed to optimize inference dataflows and reduce the compute and memory bottlenecks associated with more general-purpose architectures. AMD plans to incorporate the technology into its accelerator roadmap and develop system-level solutions that combine Taalas' capabilities with AMD Instinct GPUs. The acquisition appears strategically well aligned with AMD's growing emphasis on inference, an area that is becoming increasingly important as AI workloads transition from model training toward large-scale production deployment. Taalas has developed an approach that effectively builds specialized hardware around AI models, potentially allowing workloads to run with higher efficiency than on general-purpose architectures. AMD believes the combination can improve inference performance and efficiency while giving Taalas access to AMD's engineering resources, scale and global customer reach. Taalas' technology complements AMD's broader full-stack AI portfolio, which includes Helios rack-scale systems, EPYC CPUs, Instinct accelerators, Pensando networking and ROCm software. AMD said Helios can deliver up to 15% higher throughput at the same rack power and as much as 30% more tokens per dollar than competing solutions across a broad range of inference workloads. Customer demand is also running ahead of AMD's initial expectations. The integration of Taalas' specialized inference technology could therefore give AMD another architectural lever to improve performance, power efficiency and token economics instead of relying solely on successive GPU improvements. The Taalas deal strengthens AMD compute power with specialized inference silicon while retaining the ability to combine it with Instinct GPUs, EPYC processors and ROCm. AMD plans to introduce a new rack-scale AI platform every year, with successive generations targeting significant improvements in performance, efficiency and total cost of ownership. The company expects its 2027 platform, incorporating MI500-series GPUs, Verano CPUs and next-generation networking, to produce the largest generational performance improvement in Instinct history. The company remains on track to increase inference performance by more than 2,000 times over four years. Story Continues Tough Competition Hurts AMD's Prospects AMD's prospects suffer from stiff competition. NVIDIA NVDA and Alphabet GOOGL are major competitors in the AI inference space. NVIDIA competes directly with AMD as a merchant supplier of AI infrastructure, while Alphabet is increasingly a vertically integrated rival through its internally developed TPUs, Google Cloud infrastructure and Gemini ecosystem. NVIDIA's Blackwell is already deployed across every major hyperscaler, cloud provider and major model maker, while frontier AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Perplexity and Cursor, are building on its platform. This broad installed base creates a significant hurdle for AMD as it attempts to expand adoption of Instinct accelerators and ROCm. NVIDIA believes that its CUDA ecosystem, installed base and continually improving software stack allow customers to generate returns from GPUs beyond their depreciable lives, strengthening customer retention and raising switching costs. Alphabet designs its own TPUs, deploys them across its enormous internal AI workloads, uses them to power Gemini, and offers the same infrastructure externally through Google Cloud. The company's Google Cloud now offers TPU 8t and 8i alongside NVIDIA's Vera Rubin, with Google highlighting the price-performance of its accelerators. Alphabet's software stack supports JAX, PyTorch, vLLM and SGLang across GPUs and TPUs, while its Virgo network is designed to
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Synopsys (SNPS) Unleashes Agentic AI Chip Design Tools Backed by Microsoft, AMD
Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) just handed AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) a new way to design chips: let AI agents do more of the work. On July 27, Synopsys unveiled autonomous agentic AI workflows built with Microsoft and already being evaluated by AMD, aimed at cutting the time it takes to turn a chip specification into working silicon. The announcement lands as investors weigh whether Synopsys deserves its premium for owning so much of the AI buildout's tooling.Synopsys (SNPS) Unleashes Agentic AI Chip Design Tools Backed by Microsoft, AMD Bull Case: Agents Doing The Engineering, Not Just The Typing Synopsys introduced two autonomous workflows at the DAC Chips to Systems Conference, developed with Microsoft and available for evaluation on Microsoft Discovery. One handles debug closure, using domain-specific and task-level agents to find design failures and speed up validation, with early evaluations showing a 25% to 40% reduction in debug cycle time. The other automates implementation and closure work on Synopsys' Fusion Compiler on Azure, with early results pointing to improved quality of results. AMD is actively evaluating these workflows for its next-generation products. That traction fits a broader pattern. Synopsys already counts Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) as both a customer and an investor, after Nvidia expanded its partnership with a $2 billion investment. Synopsys' design software and intellectual property make it hard for rivals to dislodge once a chipmaker builds a project around its tools, and that stickiness showed up in the numbers: fiscal 2026 second quarter revenue grew 42% year-over-year, prompting the company to raise its full-year guidance. Bear Case: The Ansys Bill Is Still Coming Due Despite that growth, Synopsys shares had fallen 12% year to date as of July 16, a gap one analysis called jarring given the company's market share gains. Part of the explanation sits inside the Ansys deal: Synopsys paid $35 billion for it, and the resulting amortization costs have kept margins tight, with relief only expected once those costs wind down. Stock-based compensation made up roughly 58.8% of Synopsys' operating cash flow in fiscal 2025, meaning a large share of its reported free cash flow, about $1.3 billion for the year, comes from a non-cash add-back rather than actual cash generation. There are also risks outside the balance sheet. Synopsys is managing multiple class action lawsuits alleging misstatements about its intellectual property segment, and a settlement with Elliott Investment Management could still push the company toward strategic changes. Story Continues Where Street Money Sits Right Now Hedge fund ownership of Synopsys fell from 91 funds to 84 in the most recent quarter, a pullback that suggests some institutional money trimmed positions. Short interest sits at just 2.94% of float, low enough to signal little organized skepticism. Synopsys trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 24.10 as of August 7, a multiple that assumes solid growth continues without being stretched to extreme levels. What Would Have To Go Right, Or Wrong, From Here Synopsys sits at a crossroads. The bull case rests on real traction, from the AMD and Microsoft collaboration to double-digit revenue growth, while the bear case rests on margin pressure and legal overhang tied to Ansys. For the growth story to win out, the new workflows need to convert from evaluations into paying deployments. While we acknowledge the potential of SNPS as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on thebest short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 10 Best Future Stocks to Buy Under $10 and 12 Best Performing Semiconductor Stocks to Invest In.Disclosure: None. Follow Insider Monkey on Google News. View Comments
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Why AMD (AMD) Could Benefit as AI Shifts From Training to Inference
Sands Capital, an investment management company, released its "Sands Capital Technology Innovators Fund" Q2 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the quarter, global equities rebounded sharply, with the MSCI ACWI posting its strongest quarterly gain since 2020, supported by broad market strength, easing geopolitical tensions, and continued enthusiasm for AI infrastructure. Information technology led the advance, with semiconductor and hardware companies accounting for most of the index's rise. The fund returned 26.9% (net) in the second quarter of 2026. The portfolio benefited from strong gains across memory, software infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other AI-related holdings, although its concentrated exposure to mega-cap chip designers and manufacturers weighed on relative performance as leadership broadened into CPUs, networking, and memory. Vertical software, internet, and financial holdings were modest detractors amid macro concerns and uncertainty over AI disruption. The fund remains focused on critical AI bottlenecks, including compute, memory, manufacturing, networking, and power, while retaining selected businesses that may use AI to strengthen their competitive positions. You can check the fund's top five holdings to learn more about its leading investment ideas for the year. In its second-quarter 2026 investor letter, Sands Capital Technology Innovators Fund highlighted Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) as a newly added position. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is a leading semiconductor company that designs and manufactures AI accelerators, microprocessors, and graphics processing units, which contributed to the fund's performance in the quarter. On August 7, 2026, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) closed at $483.36 per share. One-month return of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) was -14.80% and its shares gained 178.94% over the past 52 weeks. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) has a market capitalization of about $789.07 billion. Sands Capital Technology Innovators Fund stated the following regarding Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) in its Q2 2026 investor letter: "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), Arm Holdings, and Intel increased the portfolio's exposure to rising CPU demand driven by agentic AI. While GPUs remain central to training and token generation, CPUs are increasingly important for scheduling, memory management, tool execution, and the orchestration of agentic workflows. As AI workloads evolve toward inference, agentic workflows, and more complex data center architectures, we believe the need to coordinate, feed, and manage accelerated compute could drive stronger CPU demand than investors previously expected. AMD and Arm provide exposure to supplier diversity, open standards, and more efficient compute architectures, while Intel adds exposure to server CPUs and potential foundry optionality as customers seek additional sources of advanced manufacturing supply. While execution risk remains meaningful, particularly for Intel, we believe these businesses provide differentiated exposure to emerging bottlenecks in the AI infrastructure stack." Story Continues Is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) One of the Top 10 Dividend Stocks to Buy According to Reddit? Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) ranks 20 on our list of 40 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds Heading Into 2026. According to our database, 134 hedge fund portfolios held Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) at the end of the first quarter, up from 132 in the previous quarter. While we acknowledge the potential of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI
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Nvidia Scores 12% Weekly Gain As Taiwan Semiconductor Sales Soars; Is Nvidia A Buy Now?
Nvidia takes a breather after jumping 12% last week. The stock is in a cup base with a buy point of 236.54. Continue Reading
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What TSMC’s Surging Sales Growth Means for Apple and Nvidia Stocks
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing reported monthly sales which were ahead of its annual growth forecast. Continue Reading
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Is Advanced Micro (AMD) a Buy as Wall Street Analysts Look Optimistic?
The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price. Do they really matter, though? Before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage, let's see what these Wall Street heavyweights think about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Advanced Micro currently has an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 1.39, on a scale of 1 to 5 (Strong Buy to Strong Sell), calculated based on the actual recommendations (Buy, Hold, Sell, etc.) made by 46 brokerage firms. An ABR of 1.39 approximates between Strong Buy and Buy. Of the 46 recommendations that derive the current ABR, 36 are Strong Buy and two are Buy. Strong Buy and Buy respectively account for 78.3% and 4.4% of all recommendations. Brokerage Recommendation Trends for AMDBroker Rating Breakdown Chart for AMD Check price target & stock forecast for Advanced Micro here>>> While the ABR calls for buying Advanced Micro, it may not be wise to make an investment decision solely based on this information. Several studies have shown limited to no success of brokerage recommendations in guiding investors to pick stocks with the best price increase potential. Are you wondering why? The vested interest of brokerage firms in a stock they cover often results in a strong positive bias of their analysts in rating it. Our research shows that for every "Strong Sell" recommendation, brokerage firms assign five "Strong Buy" recommendations. This means that the interests of these institutions are not always aligned with those of retail investors, giving little insight into the direction of a stock's future price movement. It would therefore be best to use this information to validate your own analysis or a tool that has proven to be highly effective at predicting stock price movements. With an impressive externally audited track record, our proprietary stock rating tool, the Zacks Rank, which classifies stocks into five groups, ranging from Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) to Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), is a reliable indicator of a stock's near-term price performance. So, validating the Zacks Rank with ABR could go a long way in making a profitable investment decision. Zacks Rank Should Not Be Confused With ABR In spite of the fact that Zacks Rank and ABR both appear on a scale from 1 to 5, they are two completely different measures. The ABR is calculated solely based on brokerage recommendations and is typically displayed with decimals (example: 1.28). In contrast, the Zacks Rank is a quantitative model allowing investors to harness the power of earnings estimate revisions. It is displayed in whole numbers -- 1 to 5. Story Continues It has been and continues to be the case that analysts employed by brokerage firms are overly optimistic with their recommendations. Because of their employers' vested interests, these analysts issue more favorable ratings than their research would support, misguiding investors far more often than helping them. On the other hand, earnings estimate revisions are at the core of the Zacks Rank. And empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements. Furthermore, the different grades of the Zacks Rank are applied proportionately across all stocks for which brokerage analysts provide earnings estimates for the current year. In other words, at all times, this tool maintains a balance among the five ranks it assigns. There is also a key difference between the ABR and Zacks Rank when it comes to freshness. When you look at the ABR, it may not be up-to-date. Nonetheless, since brokerage analysts constantly revise their earnings estimates to reflect changing business trends, and their actions get reflected in the Zacks Rank quickly enough, it is always timely in pred
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What TSMC Sales Growth Means for Apple and Nvidia Stocks
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing reported monthly sales which were ahead of its annual growth forecast. Continue Reading
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Intel launches $15 billion share sale as turnaround rally lifts stock
Aug 10 (Reuters) - Intel is planning to raise $15 billion through a share sale, the U.S. chipmaker said on Monday as it looks to fund the costly build-out of its chip contract manufacturing business by cashing in on a stock surge fueled by its turnaround efforts. Once the dominant force in the global chip industry, Intel is investing heavily in new facilities and advanced packaging capabilities as it seeks to challenge industry leader such as TSMC in contract chip manufacturing. Its shares fell more than 3% in premarket trading, likely on concerns about shareholder dilution from the stock sale. The shares have more than doubled this year, outperforming rivals. Intel plans to give underwriters a 30-day option to buy up to $2.25 billion worth of additional shares at the offer price, minus discounts. JPMorgan Securities, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Global Markets are joint book-running managers. (Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Joyjeet Das and Arun Koyyur) View Comments
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Nvidia, Eli Lilly, and Disney Show It’s Time to Back the Top Dogs
Investors are still skittish enough that they only want to buy proven winners, so backing the favorite is a smart strategy right now. Continue Reading
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Core Scientific (CORZ) Shareholders Rejected a $9B Sale. Does the AMD Deal Vindicate Them?
Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORZ) announced a major infrastructure partnership with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) on July 28, giving the chipmaker's ecosystem access to more than 500 megawatts of U.S. data-center capacity beginning in 2027. The arrangement can expand to 2.5 gigawatts. Core Scientific shares rallied in premarket trading. The agreement is more substantial than the initial announcement suggested. Core Scientific's earnings release described 15-year agreements covering approximately 530 megawatts across five sites, with more than $14 billion of potential base contracted revenue. Its regulatory filing provided an important distinction: AMD directly leased 377 megawatts, while an unnamed neocloud leased another 152 megawatts under agreements that give AMD certain equipment protections and rights if that customer defaults. The larger story, however, began nine months earlier. Core Scientific shareholders rejected an all-stock acquisition by CoreWeave whose announcement-date implied equity value was approximately $9 billion. The fixed exchange ratio valued CORZ at $20.40 per share when the transaction was announced in July 2025, but the value shareholders would have received at closing was not fixed and moved with CoreWeave's share price. In January, Gullane Capital Partners founder Trip Miller, who had opposed the sale, predicted that Core Scientific would secure new AI customers. "I expect them to announce deals for AI with third parties other than CoreWeave," he told Business Insider. The new agreements appear to deliver precisely that customer diversification. Taken together, AMD's 377-megawatt direct lease and the neocloud's 152-megawatt lease exceed Miller's roughly 400-megawatt expectation, although AMD itself did not directly lease the full 529 megawatts. The question is whether the agreements prove that shareholders were right to preserve Core Scientific's independence, or merely give the company a large, capital-intensive opportunity whose ultimate value remains uncertain. BULL CASE AMD agreement validates the central argument shareholders made when they rejected CoreWeave: Core Scientific's power portfolio could attract major customers beyond its existing tenant. Before the new agreements, CoreWeave remained Core Scientific's only meaningful high-density colocation customer. Core Scientific had leased approximately 590 megawatts to CoreWeave, and a single customer generated 77% of the company's first-half revenue. The new leases almost double total leased customer power capacity to approximately 1.1 gigawatts. Core Scientific said that capacity now represents more than $24 billion of potential contracted revenue, including the existing CoreWeave relationship and the new agreements connected to AMD. Story Continues This matters because the independence case depended on more than rising demand for AI infrastructure. Core Scientific had to demonstrate that its sites, power access, construction capabilities, and delivery record were attractive to counterparties other than CoreWeave. The AMD ecosystem provides that validation. AMD's direct 377-megawatt commitment is spread across sites in Pecos, Muskogee, and Hunt County. The additional 152 megawatts leased by a neocloud across two other sites will support AMD equipment, with AMD receiving contractual protections surrounding that equipment. Together, the initial 529 megawatts of critical IT capacity are already comparable with Core Scientific's entire 590-megawatt CoreWeave relationship. If AMD converts its reservation rights for another 1,925 megawatts into leases, the partnership could eventually dwarf CoreWeave's position. The agreement also strengthens Core Scientific's transition away from bitcoin mining. Colocation generated $136.7 million of the company's $164.2 million in second-quarter revenue. The business is increasingly becoming a data-center landlord rather than a bitcoin miner attempting an AI pivot. From this perspective, the shareho
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AMD (AMD) Buys Inference Chip Startup Taalas To Sharpen Its AI Edge
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) is trying to solve two problems at once: proving its AI hardware can keep growing as fast as Street expects, and making a case for why that growth alone should justify the stock's price. On August 6, AMD confirmed a deal to buy Taalas, a Toronto-based startup building specialized silicon for AI inference, a move aimed squarely at the first problem even as the second has been driving the stock's swings all week.AMD (AMD) Buys Inference Chip Startup Taalas To Sharpen Its AI Edge Bull Case: A Full Stack Getting Fuller Taalas, founded in 2023, has built technology that optimizes how data moves during AI inference, cutting the compute and memory bottlenecks that slow general-purpose chip designs. AMD plans to fold that technology into its accelerator roadmap and pair it with AMD Instinct GPUs, adding another layer to a platform that already spans Helios rackscale systems, EPYC CPUs and the ROCm software stack. The deal, still subject to regulatory approval, also extends AMD's long-standing presence in Canada, where the company says it intends to keep growing its engineering talent base. The underlying business backs that ambition up. Second-quarter revenue hit a record $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year, with data center revenue alone climbing 107% to $6.7 billion. Adjusted EPS jumped 246% to $1.66, and operating margin improved to 17% from a 2% loss a year earlier. AMD has picked up customers once seen as Nvidia territory, including Oracle, Microsoft and OpenAI, and CEO Lisa Su says AMD has lined up 6 gigawatts of committed capacity apiece from OpenAI and Meta Platforms for its new MI450 chips and Helios racks. Su has pegged the AI data center chip market at $1.4 trillion annually by 2030 and forecasts that AMD's own data center sales will roughly double once more in 2027. Bear Case: Why A Good Quarter Still Sent The Stock Lower Despite that quarter, AMD shares fell, and the simplest explanation is that much of the good news was already baked into the price. The stock trades at nearly 70 times forward earnings, a multiple that assumes years of growth are already locked in. Some of AMD's headline growth rate is also flattered by an easy comparison: a US government ban on chip sales to China in April 2025 depressed AMD's results a year ago, making this year's percentage gain look larger than the underlying quarter-over-quarter trend, which came in at 16%. The Market's Read On The Stock Hedge fund ownership of AMD ticked up from 132 funds in the prior quarter to 134 in the most recent one, a modest increase suggesting institutional interest is holding steady rather than swinging hard either way. Short interest is low at 2.45% of float, showing little organized betting against the stock. Even so, AMD carries a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 65.36 as of August 7, a rich multiple that leaves the stock priced for the growth story to keep delivering rather than for any near-term stumble. Story Continues The Bet Investors Are Actually Making AMD's Taalas purchase and its data center numbers point to a company genuinely closing the gap on Nvidia in AI hardware, while its valuation shows the market has already given AMD substantial credit for doing so. The next several quarters of Helios shipments and MI450 adoption will show whether AMD's growth can keep outrunning a stock price that already assumes a lot goes right. How that plays out against Nvidia's own roadmap, more than the Taalas deal itself, is likely what decides where AMD's stock goes from here. While we acknowledge the potential of AMD as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on thebest short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 10 Best Future Stocks to Buy Under $10 and 12 Best Performing Semiconductor Stocks to Invest I
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AMD (AMD) Buys Taalas: Is AI Inference the Next Battleground With Nvidia?
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) just announced an acquisition that could give major competition to NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) in AI-inference. On August 6, AMD said it has agreed to buy chip startup Taalas as specialized inference chips become a critical area of focus for semiconductor makers. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The company plans to integrate Taalas' technology into its accelerator roadmap and develop system-level solutions combining it with AMD Instinct graphics processing units (GPUs). "AMD is building a full-stack AI platform that gives customers the flexibility to deploy the right compute solutions for every AI workload," Vamsi Boppana, senior vice president of AMD's Artificial Intelligence Group, said in a statement. AMD Expands its AI Inference Arsenal The acquisition strengthens AMD's AI portfolio by offering it differentiated inference performance and efficiency. The move also highlights the rising importance for leading GPU makers to offer integrated systems with several different components and chips rather than standalone processors. The acquisition itself follows a string of smaller inference-focused deals made by AMD. Back in November, the company acquired MK1, an AI software startup specializing in high-speed inference. It also acquired MEXT in June and added FastFlowLM to its artificial intelligence group in July. Together, these moves may strengthen AMD's AI inference capabilities to compete with giants such as Nvidia. Taalas's technology could also offer AMD both speed and lower costs. The company says that the HC1 demonstrator reportedly delivers around 17,000 tokens per second per user when running Llama 3.1 8B. It also claims that its systems can cost 20 times less to build and use 10 times less power because they avoid HBM, advanced packaging, and liquid cooling. AI Inference to Become the Next Nvidia Battleground AMD's latest buying spree follows merely months after NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) struck a $20 billion deal with Groq, a designer of high-performance AI chips, for its inference technology and talent. Nvidia chips have dominated the process of AI model training for quite some time, but its graphics processors face greater competition from central processing units and custom processors. Inference computing, the process of answering queries, occurs every time AI models are used. As AI assistants, coding agents, and similar applications handle billions of queries, factors such as latency, throughput, and power efficiency become increasingly important. Story Continues Through the Taalas acquisition, AMD has the opportunity to compete in an area where competition is less entrenched. The Bear Case: Execution Risk remains High While the Taalas acquisition may strengthen AMD's portfolio, AMD has neither disclosed the financial terms of the agreement or the revenue opportunity that comes from the acquisition. Investors will also need to judge its commercial impact, which can be done once the technology is integrated into AMD's broader product roadmap. Moreover, Taalas' biggest strength is also its biggest limitation. Taalas hardwires entire AI models directly into silicon instead of a general-purpose GPU, which means switching to a different model still requires making new chips. This could be a serious disadvantage in an industry where models evolve rapidly. Nvidia, meanwhile, has already incorporated technology from inference specialist Groq into its own AI roadmap. Hedge Fund Sentiment According to Insider Monkey Database, hedge fund interest in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) remain strong. 134 hedge funds held stakes in AMD at the end of the first quarter of 2026, up from 132 in Q4 2025. Nvidia remained far more widely held, boasting 275 hedge funds, up from 264 in the previous quarter. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) has a short interest representing 2.5% of the public float, compar
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A Volatile Week for Tech Revealed New Stock Narratives—and 1 Bargain
For most tech earnings, good wasn’t good enough. But it’s still possible to impress skeptical investors and flip a negative narrative. Continue Reading
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Jim Cramer Shares Reasons Behind Why NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s Shares Are Finally Rising
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is a stock that Jim Cramer continues to stand by with, even though it has struggled. While it's unclear whether he's as loyal to it as he is to Costco, throughout 2026, the CNBC TV host has continued to assert that the firm provides a great long-term opportunity. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)'s shares are up by 17.5% year-to-date, fueled primarily by a 16.8% jump since July 29th. In a brief couple of tweets, Cramer first commented on t/he shares and then on Elon Musk's announcement that he would exclusively buy the firm's AI products: "you get a couple of reports that Nvidia chips are holding their value and are scarce and the stock soars. "If Elon hadn't gone all in Nvidia with what could be the biggest set of orders in the history of Nvidia then AMD's stock would have been up last night. The loss of that business overshadowed ANOTHER MONSTER quarter from Lisa Su. Listen: @SquawkStreet this a.m. "You have to spend to make Due to the centrality of its products for the AI ecosystem, the debate for NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is about AI spending. The bulls and the bears are torn between whether the spending will be sustainable or whether hyperscalers will reduce their budgets. Cramer's initial tweet also discusses this and addresses another key point about the resale value of the pricey AI GPUs. For the NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) bulls, the revenue growth rate, which was 85% in the first quarter, means that its valuation, such as a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 22.88, is too low. Additionally, they point to the firm's future potential by quoting NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)'s backlogs and bookings for the current Blackwell systems and the next-generation Vera Rubin AI GPUs. The firm is estimated to have a $500 billion chip backlog, while CEO Jensen Huang, as optimistic as ever, has projected $1 trillion in sales for the Blackwell and Rubin GPUs through 2027. However, the bears caution that potential tailwinds stemming from custom AI chips, circular deals and margin pressures could spell trouble in the future. According to the bears, deals such as those where NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) guarantees backstops for customers that buy it products can cause demand to appear inflated than it actually is. They also point towards high HBM memory chip costs to warn that NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) could experience margin erasure. As for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), the debate for the firm is similar to the one that was present when Intel was the dominant player in the global chip industry. The bulls and the bears are divided on whether Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) can become a genuine alternative or competitor to NVIDIA's advanced AI GPUs. The bulls are optimistic about the growing use of agentic AI due to its positive impact on CPU demand. While Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) makes CPUs and GPUs, NVIDIA is limited to GPUs and CPUs designed through Arm-based designs. However, the bears point towards other factors, such as $808 million in capital expenditure in the second quarter, which was significantly higher than analyst estimates of $299 million. Additionally, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD)'s forward P/E ratio of 66 is quite high and leads to debate about whether it can lead to headwinds in case of even the slightest weakness in financial performance. Story Continues The hedge funds clearly favor NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), though. During Q4 2025, 264 out of the 1,041 funds part of Insider Monkey's database had owned a stake, while this figure was 275 out of 1,022 in Q1 2026. On the other hand, 132 and 134 funds had owned AMD in Q4 and Q1, respectively, to indicate a more muted sentiment. Short interest as a percent of the float was 1.39% for NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), while it was 2.45% for AMD. Both firms were part of our list of 10 Blue Chip Stocks Jim Cramer is Crazy About. While Insider Monkey ac
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