By Geoffrey Seiler
Publication Date: 2026-10-02 16:43:00
If you have $1,000 that you’re ready to invest today, that would be enough to start positions in two of the chip stocks that look poised to lead the next wave of the artificial intelligence (AI) build-out in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD +2.95%) and Broadcom (AVGO +3.35%). With $1,000, you could buy one share of each.
Let’s look at why these two semiconductor stocks look like solid investments.
1. AMD: An inference, agentic AI, and physical AI winner
Today’s Change
(2.95%) $18.18
Current Price
$633.91
Key Data Points
Market Cap
Day’s Range
$628.55 – $645.46
52wk Range
$188.22 – $645.46
Volume
19.9M
Avg Vol
23.7M
Gross Margin
50.37%
AMD was outmaneuvered by Nvidia in the AI training market, but it’s positioning itself to prevent that from happening again. It’s developing processors that target the inference, agentic AI, and…


