Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock has risen by 62.8% over the course of 21 trading days. The gains are driven in part by the company’s major deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, to supply tens of thousands of its GPU chips for 6 gigawatts of computing capacity over the next five years.

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AMD’s flagship Instinct MI350 chips, developed on the CDNA 4 architecture, aim to deliver up to four times more AI compute along with 35 times faster inference compared to their predecessors.

This is actually AMD’s second rebranding for the Rembrandt-R silicon, which was launched as the Ryzen 6000 series in 2022. These chips will compete most directly with Intel’s non-Ultra Core 100 series processors, most of which use 2022-vintage Raptor Lake silicon.

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) stock is having a pretty easy time outperforming Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) so far this year, with an impressive 95% gain year to date versus just 31% for NVDA stock. Indeed,

AMD will power the next-generation Discovery supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs, partnering with the US Department of Energy, ready in early 2026.

AMD will reportedly construct two supercomputers to aid the US Department of Energy in nuclear, health and national security concerns.

The deal with OpenAI shows AMD is competitively positioned to benefit from the buildout of new data centers to support growing demand for AI services like ChatGPT. OpenAI already has over 700 million weekly users, and that figure will likely grow into the billions, considering how powerful these AI models are becoming.

DOE announced the Discovery and Lux supercomputers at ORNL to advance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Discovery and Lux will enable AI-driven research that fuels new advances in energy, manufacturing, medicine and cybersecurity.

Vivek Arya, semiconductor analyst at Bank of America Securities, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to discuss the rise in semiconductor stocks amid the AI hype, Nvidia's second GTC conference, and more.