(Bloomberg) — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the leading challenger to Nvidia Corp. in AI computing chips, reached a record high after a flood of data center spending bolstered its sales forecast.
— Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the leading challenger to Nvidia Corp. in AI computing chips, reached a record high after a flood of data center spending bolstered its sales forecast.
Second-quarter revenue will be $11.2 billion, plus or minus $300 million, the company said in a statement Tuesday. That compares with an average analyst prediction of $10.5 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. AMD also gave robust predictions for its longer-term growth, sending the shares up 19% in New York on Wednesday, their biggest single-day gain since October. After nearly doubling this year, the stock hit a fresh closing high of $421.39.
AMD’s upbeat outlook signals that it’s winning orders from the biggest spenders on artificial intelligence computing. Though Nvidia remains the dominant provider of AI processors, data center customers are increasingly seeking alternatives — a trend that has helped AMD. There’s a massive amount of money at stake. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc. and other so-called hyperscalers have indicated that they will spend as much as $725 billion in 2026 on AI.
AMD is the second-largest maker of AI accelerators — chips based on graphics processing units, or GPUs, that are used to train and run artificial intelligence services. It still trails Nvidia in that market by a wide margin. Other companies, such as Broadcom Inc., are attempting to challenge Nvidia with different approaches. That company makes application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, that are increasingly used to handle AI workloads.
Still, GPUs remain the core technology behind AI development. AMD’s product lineup also includes microprocessors that serve as the heart of server computers, an area where it has taken market share from Intel Corp. All three companies make graphics chips that are used in laptop and desktop PCs. AMD’s first-quarter sales rose 38% to $10.3 billion. Profit, minus certain items, was $1.37 a share.
Analysts had predicted revenue of $9.89 billion and earnings of $1.28 a share. Revenue at its data center business grew 57% to $5.8 billion. Analysts had predicted $5.61 billion on average. Personal computer-related sales rose 23% to $3.6 billion.
AMD has benefited from renewed interest in its central processing units, or CPUs. That type of generalist chip is increasingly being deployed in gear used to run AI software. The data center CPU market will grow at “greater than 35% annually, reaching over $120 billion by 2030,” AMD said. As recently as November, at the company’s analyst day, it was forecasting an 18% rate of increase.
“In response to this demand, we are working closely with our supply chain partners to meaningfully increase our wafer and back-end capacity to support this growth,” Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su said on a conference call with analysts. AMD’s server CPU revenue will grow more than 70% in the current quarter, the company said, and “robust growth” will continue through the second half of 2026 into 2027.
Su also said the company had growing confidence in its ability to generate tens of billions of dollars in annual data center revenue next year. She expects to exceed AMD’s long-term growth target of greater than 80% in the coming years. The industry does face some challenges, though. Like other tech companies, AMD is contending with an unwanted side effect of the build-out in new AI data centers: a memory shortage.
Computers in those facilities require a vast amount of high-performance memory chips. That’s created an incentive for memory manufacturers to focus on that part of the business, rather than making as many of the regular chips used in laptops and other devices. The PC industry is projected to make fewer machines as a result.
“We are planning for second half PC shipments to be lower due to higher memory and component costs,” Su said Tuesday. “Against this backdrop, we still expect our client revenue to grow year-over-year and outperform the market.
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