The company's shares have shown sharp growth: the price exceeded $303. Over the past month, the stock has risen by more than 40%, and over the year by 218% (since April 23).
AMD is strengthening its AI data center business, following NVIDIA's example. The company is offering bundled Helios AI accelerators, similar to Jensen Huang's solutions. Orders are already being accepted from Amazon and Google, and by 2027 an even more powerful and expensive next-generation accelerator has been promised.
For gamers, this is bad news. AMD is likely reallocating resources from the gaming segment to AI, and the consequences are already visible — in the high prices for hardware.
The situation with Gamers Nexus shows a shift in attitude toward the gaming market. The outlet did not receive the new CPU for testing and has not been getting a response for weeks about the state of driver support for the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme APUs used in the ROG Ally.