AMD soars after striking AI chip deal with Meta valued at over $100 billion
Advanced Micro Devices is spiking in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company booked another major customer for its GPUs.
The chip designer struck a deal with Meta to deploy 6 gigawatts worth of AI infrastructure (that is, multiple generations of AMD AI chips). Per The Wall Street Journal, AMD has said that each gigawatt is equivalent to “several tens of billions of dollars” of sales, making the value of this pact in excess of $100 billion.
In exchange, Meta will receive warrants to buy as many as 160 million shares — roughly 10% of AMD’s current total shares outstanding — for a penny each as certain milestones are hit pertaining to the amount of gigawatts shipped, AMD’s share price, and “Meta achieving key technical and commercial milestones.” For all the tranches to vest, AMD stock would need to trade at $600.
The GPUs-for-warrants framework is similar to the deal that AMD brokered with OpenAI last year.
Mark Zuckerberg has a voracious appetite for AI compute. Just last week, Meta unveiled a “multi-year, multi-generational strategic partnership” with Nvidia that “will enable the large-scale deployment of NVIDIA CPUs and millions of NVIDIA Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, as well as the integration of NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switches for Meta’s Facebook Open Switching System platform.”
Nvidia, the leader in AI GPUs, slumped as news of this pact hit the wires.
