AMD/Intel New High Again! CPU & Memory Surges: Which Side Do You Pick?
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$Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ surged +16.5% after-hours to above $400. $INTC$ jumped +17.6% yesterday. Same week: $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ printed 78.4% gross margins, and $Micron Technology(MU)$ 's CEO called memory a "strategic asset for AI." Two AI infrastructure plays are flying simultaneously — CPUs and memory. Which one runs further?1. CPU Story: Demand Is Structurally ShiftingAI has moved from training to inference + agentic AI. That shift benefits more than just GPUs.$AMD$ Q1 Data Center: $5.8B (+48% YoY). Q2 guidance: $11.2B revenue (+46% YoY). Lisa Su was explicit: inference and agentic AI demand for high-performance CPUs and accelerators is "accelerating." E