A $10,000 investment in AMD made on October 27, 2025, was worth about $22,280 at the market close on October 28, 2026, while the S&P 500 returned 14.0% over the same period. Data center revenue became the main driver, accounting for 58% of sales in the quarter ended June 2026, up from 42% a year earlier, and reaching a record $6.7 billion. The article argues that signs were visible before the run, including the October 6, 2025 OpenAI agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs. AMD kept adding customers, including Anthropic with up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 chips and Meta, which will use AMD Helios rack systems. Management expects data center revenue to more than double in 2027, though this is a forecast rather than a result.
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