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Publication Date: 2026-05-26 10:45:00
Advanced Micro Devices(NASDAQ: AMD) is firing on all cylinders. The company’s shares have more than tripled over the past 12 months, driven by excellent financial results. Does the semiconductor specialist have any growth fuel left in the tank? There are good reasons to think so. For instance, recent comments from Nvidia‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO, Jensen Huang, suggest that demand for AMD’s products could be accelerating. Here’s what investors should know.
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Four words with big implications
In the first quarter, AMD posted revenue growth of 38% year over year to $10.3 billion. The company credited strong demand for AI infrastructure for that performance. Specifically, AMD is a leader in the CPU (Central Processing Unit) market. Demand for CPUs could rise significantly as the AI industry shifts from training to inference (the phase in which models generate outputs).
CPUs are well-suited to run AI agents, and according to Huang, this phase of the AI boom is no longer in the future: It is here. His words couldn’t be clearer: “Agentic AI has arrived.” That’s great news for AMD, as it suggests that demand for the company’s EPYC processors could soar as companies race to unleash AI agents across every sector and industry.