The S&P 500 index.
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is up 2.4% for the year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index.
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is up 22%, and the PHLX Semiconductor Index.
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+1.49%.
is up 19%.
Intel shares, for their part, finished up 1.7% at $49.13, offering the business a market cap of $208.95 billion. In late July, Intel stated it was postponing the release of its 7-nanometer chips up until at least late 2022 since of manufacturing issues.
BofA Securities analyst Vivek Arya, who has a buy rating, had actually anticipated a $100 billion AMD in a Sunday note, after treking his cost target on the stock to $100.
For the year, AMD shares are up 85%, while Intel shares are down 18%. Pacing AMD are shares of Nvidia Corp
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+1.97%,. which are up 91%, valuing the business at $276.20 billion.
Lipacis stated he expects AMD share gains to accelerate, specifically in the server market, with an estimated 30% share over the next 2 to 3 years, and 50% in 4 to five years. In its current incomes call, AMD stated it had just reached 10% share of the server market.
Arya said AMD is well on its method back to its peak market share of 20% of the PC market and 25% of the server market as Intel has a hard time. On AMDs huge advantages, Arya said AMDs PC CPUs are “similarly competitive (or sometimes superior) products that still cost a 15% -45% discount rate” to Intels.
Of the 36 analysts who cover AMD, 15 have obese or buy ratings, 18 have hold rankings, and 3 have sell rankings, with an average rate target of $75.76, according to FactSet data.
In a Tuesday note, Jefferies expert Mark Lipacis, who has a buy score on AMD, raised his price target to $95 from $86. Lipacis stated the lead of AMD, and its chip producer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co
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+1.57%,. over Intel appeared “systemic.”.
In chip parlance, nanometers, or nm, describes the size of the transistors that go on a computer chip, with the basic rule being that smaller sized transistors are much faster and more efficient in using power. AMD, on the other hand, already offers 7-nm chips, and has spent 2020 launching a growing number of versions of them.
AMD
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+9.48%.
shares invested Tuesday carving out new intraday records, and closed up 9.5% at $85.04 for a brand-new closing record and a market cap of $99.84 billion. The stocks intraday high of $85.81 put the business at a market cap of more than $100 billion for the very first time, and a close of $85.18 would have put AMD simply over the $100 billion mark. AMDs stock last closed at a record $78.20 on July 30, fresh from AMDs strong revenues and indicators that the companys market share gain from Intel Corp
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was quickening.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s stock skyrocketed to fresh records Tuesday after another analyst treked his rate target on the chip business, driving it to a market cap just shy of $100 billion.
