AMD announced a long-term partnership with OpenAI on Monday that will make it one of the startup’s key chip suppliers for running its AI models. The company’s stock jumped 28% in midday trading on the news of the multiyear deal, which could generate tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue for AMD over time and marks one of the largest AI infrastructure commitments that’s not based on processors from industry leader Nvidia.
The AMD deal arrived on the heels of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Asia tour last week, during which OpenAI inked memory chip agreements with Samsung and SK Hynix and reportedly held discussions in Taiwan with TSMC, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of chips. The moves suggest OpenAI is aggressively diversifying its chip supply chain beyond Nvidia—a shift that could complicate OpenAI’s relationship with Nvidia, whose GPUs still power much of OpenAI’s training infrastructure.
