AMD&#x27;s first reinvention rebuilt the company. It was frankly about survival. Its next reinvention must redefine it.<br>The company&#x27;s resurgence over the past decade came from doing what many thought was impossible: rebuilding its CPU franchise, taking meaningful share from Intel, and restoring credibility through disciplined execution.<br>But in our view, AMD&#x27;s next chapter is fundamentally different.

AMD's Next Reinvention — A New Playbook for the AI Era

Breaking Analysis with Dave Vellante

AMD's first reinvention rebuilt the company. It was frankly about its survival. Now its next reinvention has to redefine the company. AMD's resurgence over the past decade came from doing what many thought at the time was impossible, i.e. rebuilding its CPU franchise, taking meaningful share from Intel and restoring credibility through disciplined execution.

But in our view, AMD's Next Chapter is fundamentally different. The company is no longer trying to defeat Intel in a mature x86 market. Instead, it's attempting to establish itself as the indispensable second platform in a rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market, one where NVIDIA is likely to remain the dominant player for the foreseeable future.

That requires an entirely different playbook, one built not simply on better silicon, but on innovation, openness, heterogeneous computing, rack-scale systems, software, networking, strategic acquisitions, and relentless execution. AMD, in our view, is not trying to repeat the Beat Intel playbook. It doesn't need to. It doesn't need to apply that to NVIDIA, and it won't succeed if that's what it does.

And in this breaking analysis, we'll examine how AMD engineered one of the most impressive turnarounds in semiconductor history, why that formula worked against Intel and why it won't work the same way against NVIDIA, and whether Lisa Su's strategy can transform AMD from an x86 comeback story into one of the defining AI infrastructure platforms of the next decade.

Now, this slide here captures the central premise of our analysis. AMD's first reinvention was really a comeback story. It rebuilt the company by taking share from Intel in a mature x86 CPU market. But this next reinvention is, as we said, fundamentally different. The objective is not to beat NVIDIA. In our view, that is the wrong way to think about this.

AMD's Next Reinvention — A New Playbook for the AI Era

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AMD's Next Reinvention — A New Playbook for the AI Era

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.