AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Stock News

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Advanced Micro Devices stock (NASDAQ:AMD) rose nearly 7% during Tuesday trading and approximately 15% year-to-date, as investor confidence grows regarding its role in the AI chip market, with several analysts raising their price targets for the stock. So what exactly has shifted for AMD in recent months?

It is widely accepted that AMD GPU technology offers several advantages over NVIDIA's NASDAQ: NVDA, including a better cost-to-performance ratio and superior memory capacity, which are well-suited for larger and more complex AI workloads.

You can see it from the stock price: Not a lot of people are taking Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 3.28%) seriously right now as a competitor to its much larger rival, Nvidia. Even though many stocks involved in artificial intelligence (AI) have been hot buys, Advanced Micro Devices, also known as AMD, has been lagging behind.

It's been a roller coaster year for semiconductor stocks. Many of the biggest names, like NVIDIA Corp. NASDAQ: NVDA, were on a tear heading into the year on plans for a massive data center buildout to support the needs of artificial intelligence (AI).

The three microchip stocks in this analysis all share one thing at the moment, and that is that they look very positive. At this point, the markets are looking to continue the recovery they started several weeks back.

Advanced Micro Devices made a solid generational leapfrog with its latest CDNA architecture, taking an early lead over Nvidia in some directions. The year 2026 is shaping up to determine future market leadership with the upcoming new generation of full-stack AI rack-scale architectures. I believe that AMD stock has up to 50% upside potential for a few reasons, discussed below in the article.

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