AMD has two big engines roaring as it heads into earnings
THE SO WHAT
Rack-scale demand on top of server strength means GPU alternatives are maturing into full-stack infrastructure, not just chip SKUs. If you’re planning large training or inference clusters, you now have credible leverage in vendor negotiations—treat AMD as a real second path, not a backup slide.
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