{"id":552860,"date":"2026-07-21T20:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/552860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:07:19","slug":"can-amd-narrow-hardware-gap-with-nvda-this-analyst-sees-advancing-ai-2026-event-as-key-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/552860\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AMD Narrow Hardware Gap With NVDA? This Analyst Sees Advancing AI 2026 Event As Key Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">GF Securities projects AMD&#8217;s upcoming MI450X will narrow the hardware gap with Nvidia.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">AMD is widely expected to name Anthropic as its third gigawatt-level customer, with the deployment likely to exceed the scale of its prior deals with Meta Platforms and OpenAI.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">GF Securities raised its price target on AMD shares, reiterated a &#8216;Buy&#8217; rating, and bumped full-year revenue estimates to $52.3 billion for 2026 and $82.2 billion for 2027.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) appears likely to narrow, and potentially overtake, rival Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) in artificial intelligence chips through upcoming product releases and expanded customer wins.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">AMD&#8217;s upcoming annual conference, Advancing AI 2026 which begins on July 22, is being looked at as a major stock catalyst, according to an investor note from GF Securities accessed by Seeking Alpha.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stocktwits.com\/newsletters\" data-ylk=\"slk:See%20what%2010M%2B%20investors%20are%20talking%20about.%20Get%20the%20Stocktwits%20Daily%20Rip%20for%20what%20retail%20is%20watching%20right%20now%2C%20free%20to%20your%20inbox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The brokerage reiterated its &#8216;Buy&#8217; rating on AMD and raised its price target to $640 from $511, a 27% upside from Monday&#8217;s closing price. Analyst Jeff Pu noted that AMD is projected to narrow the hardware gap with its MI450X accelerator and move ahead of Nvidia with its MI550X model, which features a four-die package structure and larger High Bandwidth Memory.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;Rack-level scaling remains on track to ramp up in the fourth quarter of 2026, while AMD&#8217;s &#8220;Venice&#8221; server processors are expected to drive higher average selling prices into 2027,&#8221; Pu said in a note.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Pu highlighted that the industry anticipates AMD unveiling Anthropic as its third gigawatt-level customer, with a deployment scale exceeding prior deals with Meta Platforms Inc. (META) and OpenAI.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Consequently, GF Securities raised its full-year revenue estimates to $52.3 billion for 2026 and $82.2 billion for 2027. AMD reports second-quarter financial results on August 4, with consensus estimates at $1.61 adjusted EPS on $11.3 billion in revenue.  <\/p>\n<p>        What To Expect At AMD Advancing AI 2026          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The market updates precede AMD&#8217;s annual gathering, Advancing AI 2026, taking place on July 22-23 in San Francisco. Led by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, the two-day event brings together developers, IT leaders, and researchers to explore advancements across AI infrastructure, architecture, and software development.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The agenda features over 100 sessions, an interactive expo floor, and keynotes. Enterprise decision-makers can expect sessions with leaders from Dell (DELL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Lenovo, Nutanix, Gartner, and TensorWave covering agentic AI deployment, datacenter power constraints, total cost of ownership, and network efficiency.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GF Securities projects AMD&#8217;s upcoming MI450X will narrow the hardware gap with Nvidia. 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