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Chip giant AMD plans to raise up to $5 billion through a four-part bond issuance, which, if completed, will become one of the largest bond financings in the company's history.It is reported that AMD is increasing capital investment to meet the rapidly growing demand for artificial intelligence computing. Previously, the company had reached significant cooperation agreements with Anthropic and Microsoft (MSFT), committing to provide up to $5 billion in support to Anthropic.The funds raised from this bond issuance will be used for general corporate purposes, including potential debt repayment. As of now, AMD has approximately $875 million in bonds maturing next month.The market believes that AMD's recent continuous expansion in AI chips and computing infrastructure will provide financial support for further investment in AI business, expanding the supply chain, and promoting strategic cooperation.

According to the official announcement, River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has completed a $1.1 billion financing round, led by General Catalyst and AMP, with strategic investments from NVIDIA and AMD. Other investors include Y Combinator and Temasek.River AI stated that the current financing will be used to accelerate the development of its personal AI technology stack. The company also revealed that its training API has been launched and is now in practical use.

According to Gate data, U.S. stock markets opened with the Dow Jones down 0.07%, the S&P 500 down 0.02%, and the Nasdaq down 0.06%. The VIX fear index rose by 3.56%. AI concept stocks saw a general increase, with Advanced Micro Devices up 5.81%, Marvell up 4.22%, Twilio up 3.23%, CoreWeave up 2.75%, and ASML up 2.61%.

According to a report by Reuters, AMD announced the acquisition of AI inference chip startup Taalas, with the transaction amount yet to be disclosed.The purpose of this acquisition is to enhance AMD's technological capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence inference chips, and it plans to integrate Taalas's technology into its Instinct GPU accelerator roadmap, further advancing the development of system-level solutions.

AMD officially launched the on-premises AI programming platform AMD Instinct Coder for enterprises, integrating AMD EPYC processors, AMD Instinct GPUs, Supermicro AI servers, Spectro Cloud PaletteAI inference launch platform software, and the GLM-5.2 model optimized by AMD inference microservices, forming a comprehensive solution that is pre-integrated from hardware to software and can be quickly deployed.AMD stated that the total cost of ownership of this platform can reduce costs by up to 70% compared to using cloud-based cutting-edge models, with a capital recovery period as short as 6 months, directly addressing the two core pain points that enterprises commonly encounter in AI programming assistant pilots: the cost impact of cloud models and the data security risks of third-party services.Spectro Cloud's PaletteAI platform provides intelligent routing capabilities, allowing for strategic automatic switching between on-premises inference and cloud-based cutting-edge models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI, and is equipped with token quotas, audit tracking, and Grafana dashboards to visualize cost comparisons between on-premises and cloud environments, fully compatible with standard operating systems and Kubernetes. Each node can support up to 50 users and is compatible with mainstream development tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Visual Studio Code, and Cursor.IDC executives commented that this platform "directly addresses the core needs of enterprises wanting AI programming productivity without the unpredictable cloud costs or risks of exposing source code." AMD's move shifts the AI programming assistant from a pure service model billed by usage to an infrastructure investment model with pre-planned costs.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, AMD has dropped 10.17% in the past 24 hours, triggering approximately $2.06 million in liquidations on Hyperliquid, with long positions liquidating about $1.96 million and short positions liquidating about $101,000, affecting 238 positions. Long positions account for 95% of the total liquidation value.AMD previously announced second-quarter revenue of $11.54 billion, a record high, and released third-quarter guidance that exceeded expectations.

According to Jinshi reports, the CEO of AMD stated that the revenue of the data center division is now expected to more than double year-on-year by 2027.

According to Jinshi reports, AMD expects Q3 2026 revenue to be between $12.7 billion and $13.3 billion, while the market expectation is $12.51 billion.

According to Jinshi reports, AMD expects Q2 2026 revenue to be $11.5 billion, exceeding market expectations of $11.284 billion, and significantly increasing from $7.685 billion in the same period last year.

According to SemiAnalysis, AMD reached a performance-based warrant agreement with Meta and OpenAI from the end of last year to the beginning of this year. The warrants will vest in batches based on the two companies' procurement and deployment of up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, while AMD's stock price must exceed a tiered target (up to $600).As AMD's stock price has risen from around $200 in early 2026 to the current $500-600, SemiAnalysis estimates that the GPU capital costs for Meta and OpenAI have decreased from about $2.15/hour and $2.50/hour to approximately $1.60/hour and $1.75/hour, respectively. If AMD's stock price rises to $600-700, the capital cost of the GPUs themselves will approach zero; if it further exceeds $1000, the total capital cost of the entire cluster (including servers, networks, and CPUs) will effectively be zero for both companies. This analysis is based on the assumption of linear vesting and the premise that the entire 6GW capacity is deployed, and the specific terms of the warrants have not been disclosed.

According to Gate market data, U.S. chip stocks have declined, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index currently down about 5%. Among them, AMD fell over 8%, NVIDIA dropped over 7%, and Intel decreased nearly 4%.

According to Reuters, citing informed sources, due to the surge in demand for AI data centers leading to a tight supply of server CPUs, Intel and AMD are negotiating long-term procurement commitments with Chinese server customers. Agreements typically lock in a year's supply, with some discussions extending to two years or longer. Driven by the construction of AI computing power, CPU demand has expanded from AI accelerators to mainstream processors, with some server CPU products in the Chinese market experiencing a cumulative price increase of over 40% this year, with month-on-month increases exceeding 10% at times.Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stated in April that Xeon server CPU demand "continues to exceed supply," and the company has signed multiple long-term contracts in the first quarter, including a multi-year agreement with Google. AMD has raised its forecast for the server CPU market to exceed $120 billion by 2030. The report notes that China, as one of the largest server markets in the world, is intensifying competition for Intel and AMD processors due to the rapid construction of data centers and AI computing clusters, even as Chinese buyers face U.S. export restrictions on advanced AI GPUs. Intel is set to announce its quarterly results on Thursday, with the CPU shortage expected to become a market focus.

According to The Wall Street Journal, AMD (AMD.O) has signed a significant chip and investment agreement with Anthropic. AMD will invest $5 billion in Anthropic as part of the chip deal.Anthropic will begin purchasing up to 2 gigawatts of AMD (AMD.O) latest generation chips in the first half of 2027.

According to CNBC, AMD has officially launched its first rack-scale AI system for artificial intelligence, Helios, which is seen as AMD's important product to compete with NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin AI systems. It has been adopted by enterprise customers such as Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle, attempting to initiate more direct competition with NVIDIA in the AI infrastructure market.Microsoft announced that it will deploy the AMD Helios system in its Azure data centers, becoming the latest customer to adopt this platform. AMD stated that Helios is expected to start delivering to customers later this year and will be used to support cutting-edge AI model inference, Azure AI services, and enterprise-level AI applications.Market analysis firm Futurum Group data shows that NVIDIA currently holds over 95% of the data center GPU market share, while AMD accounts for about 4.5%. Analysts believe that if Helios is deployed successfully, AMD has the opportunity to capture 20%-25% of the market share in the future, corresponding to a potential market space worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

According to official news, Gate ETF will launch SAMSUNG3L/USDT, SAMSUNG3S/USDT, AMD3L/USDT, and AMD3S/USDT on July 9 at 15:00 (UTC+8), supporting 3x long/short positions on SAMSUNG (Samsung Electronics) and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). Gate ETF currently supports trading of 362 types of tokens.In addition, Gate ETF will hold an ETF new trading challenge from July 9 at 15:00 to July 18 at 15:00 (UTC+8). Users participating in SAMSUNG3L/3S and AMD3L/3S trading can share a reward of 50,000 USDT.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stock AI chip stocks showed mixed results before the market opened, with Intel (INTC.O) down 3.2%, Baidu (BIDU.O) and AMD (AMD.O) down 2.7%, Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and Broadcom (AVGO.O) down over 1%, while Microsoft (MSFT.O) rose 1.1%.

According to official news, FameEX will launch the AMD/USDT perpetual contract on June 25, 2026, at 18:00 (UTC+8).

According to Gate market data, U.S. chip stocks generally fell before the market opened, with Intel (INTC.O) down 7.6%, AMD (AMD.O) down more than 6%, Qualcomm (QCOM.O) down 5.4%, and TSMC (TSM.N) down more than 4%. Baidu (BIDU.O), Broadcom (AVGO.O), and NVIDIA (NVDA.O) all fell by about 3%.

Binance will launch bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs: AMDB/USDT, EWYB/USDT, INTCB/USDT, and MSTRB/USDT on June 23, 2026, at 21:30, and will enable spot algorithm trading robot services. Deposit and withdrawal services will open on the same day at 22:30, with zero order fee during the event, until September 1, 2026, at 07:59.