AMD CEO Sees Very High Chip Demand, Urges AI Firms to Cooperate
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“Very high” multi‑year chip demand from AMD is another data point that AI compute scarcity is structural, not a one‑quarter anomaly. If you depend on accelerators, lock in multi‑year supply where you can and design workloads to be portable across vendors to benefit from any cooperation push.
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