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David Gurra

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1970 total appearances

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Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

But the inference part, is there anything unique about this different to what Meta is doing with NVIDIA?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

Because we had a very similar deal very recently.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

And how much does this show that there is anxiety, that companies are diversifying, looking at AMD, looking at their own in-house chips?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

Or actually, does it still not concern, Nvidia is still dominant?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

And Riley, the conversation is nuanced when it comes to capital expenditure.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

Many would say, yes, a lot of it is about the chips.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

It is about the data centers, but it's also about the power.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

Can we understand really how much Metra is having to focus in on where they can spend on GPUs or their own homegrown chips and where they do it globally as well?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

It's probably time for a bit of a reality check-in, and I'm hoping that you'll provide it for us.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

Like, in any given quarter right now, AMD is going to do $10 billion of revenue, all told, every single segment.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

NVIDIA's data center business is at more than $50 billion a quarter.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

Yes, that includes networking, but they're now one and the same, right?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

You can't have chips without the other.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

How do we know if this is evidence that AMD is catching up?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

Meta is not a hyperscaler, but it operates its own data centers at hyperscale, if you know what I mean.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

I'm thinking back to when Mark Zuckerberg was sat next to the president.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

$600 billion over the next few years.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

And then he's also talked about this idea that they might misspend $200 billion here or there, here or there.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

But that's no bad thing.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta to Spend Billions on AMD Gear, AI Scare Trade Continues

He's front-loading purchases.