What Happened?
Shares of computer processor maker AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) jumped 9.2% in the morning session after Japanese self-driving startup Turing announced it started using the company's AI GPUs and received an investment from AMD's venture capital arm.
Turing, which previously relied on competitor Nvidia, now runs about 10% of its AI training on AMD's hardware to help lower costs. This news signals a key customer win for AMD in the competitive artificial intelligence market. The move also came as the broader chip sector stabilized after recent weakness.
Adding to the positive sentiment, Wall Street analysts recently lifted their price targets for AMD. On June 30, Wells Fargo raised its target to $615, citing strong server-CPU demand, while Cantor Fitzgerald increased its target to $700, pointing to a 'generational cycle' in AI semiconductors.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
AMD’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 40 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was 4 days ago when the stock dropped 6% on the news that the semiconductor sector pulled back amid fears that AI-driven chip demand may be cooling. The broader Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunged over 7%, dragging down chipmakers. The negative sentiment was amplified by a warning from a Citi analyst who questioned whether large cloud platforms would continue their high rate of spending on AI infrastructure if they could not show investors the cost was generating returns. Additionally, reports of Meta's plan to sell access to its AI computing power sparked fears of future overcapacity in the industry.
For two years the sector traded on an assumption of an insatiable GPU and memory shortage. If Meta, which guided to as much as $145 billion of capex this year, has enough spare capacity to lease it out, the market reads that as a signal hyperscalers may have over-built, meaning future orders for GPUs, HBM and NAND could shrink. A secondary catalyst pressured the Koreans specifically: reports that Apple was in talks to source chips from two Chinese suppliers, raising competitive and pricing fears. Underlying all of it is profit-taking.
AMD is up 154% since the beginning of the year, and at $567.28 per share, it has set a new 52-week high. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of AMD’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $6,005.
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