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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Has Incredible News for AMD Stock Investors

The demand for Intel's server CPUs is exceeding supply by a big margin.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Has Incredible News for AMD Stock Investors

Published September 27, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is firmly in the artificial intelligence (AI) chip race, driven by improving demand for server central processing units (CPUs), which has been fueled by growth in agentic AI and inference workloads.

Inference and agentic AI are multi-step tasks, unlike chatbots that gained popularity in the first wave of AI deployment. Instead of simply answering a prompt, AI agents break down a query into multiple steps to perform tasks autonomously. This brings CPUs into focus, as they can manage multi-step tasks, call applications into action, and monitor the security of autonomous tasks performed by the agent.

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As a result, Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) expects the total addressable market (TAM) for server CPUs to increase at a compound annual growth rate of more than 50% through 2030. AMD expects this market to generate $220 billion in revenue in 2030. So, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's remarks about the state of the server CPU market clearly suggest that better times lie ahead for these chipmakers.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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