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AMD AI-infrastructure growth and supply chain expansion

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By late September 2026, AMD achieved a historic milestone as its market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion, driven by intense interest in artificial intelligence infrastructure. To secure GPU supply, AMD issued warrants to OpenAI and Meta for up to 160 million shares each, tied to procurement milestones and stock performance. OpenAI and Meta have both committed to 6-gigawatt deployments of AMD GPUs. In early October 2026, CEO Lisa Su traveled to Asia to address demand that continues to outpace production. During her visit to South Korea, Su met with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to strengthen the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) supply chain and explore collaborations in advanced packaging. She also engaged with 13 South Korean NPU startups to discuss supporting their expansion via the ROCm software ecosystem. To bolster manufacturing, AMD is implementing a $10 billion investment in the Taiwanese supply chain to enhance capacities for upcoming technologies like the Zen 6 architecture. Su has since indicated plans to increase this investment, though the new total remains undisclosed. Addressing a current supply crunch in the server CPU market, AMD is targeting a three to five year long-term manufacturing strategy. The company expects to substantially increase chip supply by 2027, supported by unconditional commitments to suppliers which rose to $30.3 billion by late June. To mitigate memory bottlenecks, AMD is exploring 3D DRAM technology using hybrid ~~bonding, which could potentially offer significantly higher energy efficiency than conventional HBM.~~ bonding. Amidst these expansions, AMD has faced rising consumer costs. On October 1, AMD reportedly implemented a price increase for GDDR6 memory ~~modules supplied to graphics card assemblers. This is expected to impact retail prices for Radeon cards, particularly the RDNA 4-based RX 9000 series.~~ modules. On October 26, 2026, AMD announced a $1 billion equity investment in Meta Platforms, Inc. as part of an expanded partnership focused on AI training, networking, and computing systems.

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