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AMD just turned the AI heat way up

Advanced Micro Devices came out swinging with first-quarter results that made Wall Street sit up straighter. Revenue hit $10.3 billion and adjusted EPS came in at $1.37, both ahead of estimates, while the real star of the show was the data center business: sales there surged 57% year over year to a record $5.8 billion.

That’s the kind of number that gets investors doing the mental equivalent of dropping a mic. AMD said the lift came from strong demand for server CPUs and GPUs, and CEO Lisa Su sounded even more optimistic about next-gen MI450 GPUs and Helios rack-scale systems. In other words: the AI arms race is still very much a hardware-eating monster, and AMD wants a bigger bite.

Guidance got the crowd even more interested

The company also guided second-quarter revenue to $11.2 billion, ahead of Wall Street’s expectations, and said gross margins should improve to 56% from 55% in Q1. That matters because the market loves growth, but it really loves growth that doesn’t torch profitability along the way.

A few other takeaways investors will care about:

Data center demand is still accelerating, which is the whole ballgame for AMD’s AI story.
Management raised its long-term view of the server CPU market, now seeing it growing more than 35% annually and topping $120 billion by 2030.
The stock popped 18.43% in premarket trading to a new 52-week high, because apparently the market had no chill.

The catch: supply still matters

There was one small wrinkle in the victory parade. AMD’s data center revenue rose only modestly sequentially, which raised fresh questions about whether TSMC capacity constraints could limit near-term growth. Translation: demand may be doing backflips, but supply chain bottlenecks can still play hall monitor.

Big picture: AMD just proved it’s still one of the loudest contenders in the AI chip fight, and investors are rewarding every sign that its server and GPU business can keep scaling without losing margin discipline.