
AMD adds $120 billion in market cap after beating revenue guidance by $700 million
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AMD adds $120 billion in market cap after beating revenue guidance by $700 million

*US & IRAN CLOSING IN ON ONE-PAGE MEMO TO END WAR: AXIOS

Marco Rubio: “The operation is over: Epic Fury. We are done with that stage of it. We’re now on to this project of freedom”

Good lord. Half-ish of the cloud backlog at Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Amazon is OpenAI and Anthropic????



$AMD Q1’26 EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS 🔹 Revenue: $10.25B (Est. $9.89B) 🟢; +38% YoY 🔹 Adj. EPS: $1.37 (Est. $1.28) 🟢; +43% YoY 🔹 Data Center Revenue: $5.8B (Est. $5.6B) 🟢; +57% YoY 🔹 Adj. Gross Margin: 55% (Est. 55.06%) 🔴; +1 ppt YoY 🔹 Data Center now the primary driver of revenue & earnings growth Q2 Guide: 🔹 Revenue: ~$11.2B +/- $300M (Est. $10.52B) 🟢; +46% YoY at midpoint 🔹 Adj. Gross Margin: ~56% (Est. 55.25%) 🟢 Segment Performance: 🔹 Data Center: $5.8B; +57% YoY 🔹 Client & Gaming: $3.6B; +23% YoY 🔹 Client: $2.9B; +26% YoY 🔹 Gaming: $720M; +11% YoY 🔹 Embedded: $873M; +6% YoY Other Metrics: 🔹 Meta & AMD: Plan to deploy up to 6 GW of AMD Instinct GPUs 🔹 Meta: First 1 GW to be powered by custom AMD Instinct MI450-based GPU 🔹 Meta: Lead customer for upcoming 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, “Venice” and “Verano” 🔹 AMD & Samsung: Collaborating on HBM4 supply for AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs 🔹 AMD & TCS: Co-developing AMD Helios-based rack-scale AI infrastructure Financials: 🔹 Adj. Operating Income: $2.54B; +43% YoY 🔹 Adj. Operating Margin: 25%; +1 ppt YoY 🔹 Adj. Net Income: $2.27B; +45% YoY 🔹 GAAP Gross Margin: 53%; +3 ppts YoY 🔹 GAAP Operating Income: $1.48B; +83% YoY 🔹 GAAP Net Income: $1.38B; +95% YoY 🔹 GAAP EPS: $0.84; +91% YoY Commentary: 🔸 “We delivered an outstanding first quarter, driven by accelerating demand for AI infrastructure, with Data Center now the primary driver of our revenue and earnings growth.” 🔸 “We are seeing strong momentum as inferencing and agentic AI drive increasing demand for high-performance CPUs and accelerators.” 🔸 “Looking ahead, we expect server growth to accelerate meaningfully as we scale supply to meet demand.” 🔸 “Customer engagement around MI450 Series and Helios is strengthening, with leading customer forecasts exceeding our initial expectations and a growing pipeline of large-scale deployments providing us with increasing visibility into our growth trajectory.”

IMO, this is not a bull market top like 2000 but the circumstances are different than November 1998. November 1998 happened after a 55% bear market in 1997-1998. Therefore, there's a high probability of a 20%+ crash in the July-October timeframe in 2026. x.com/CyclesFan/stat…




Intel has over 5x its value since the U.S. Government bought 9.9% of it in August 2025.