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OpenAI Strikes Multi-Year AMD Deal for 6 GW of GPUs and Option for 10% Stake

The pact pairs a 6‑gigawatt GPU rollout starting in 2026 with equity warrants that could give OpenAI about a tenth of AMD.

Overview

  • AMD will supply hundreds of thousands of GPUs across multiple hardware generations beginning in the second half of 2026, starting with about 1 gigawatt on its forthcoming MI450 platform.
  • OpenAI received warrants to buy up to 160 million AMD shares at $0.01 per share, exercisable in tranches upon technical, deployment and market milestones through 2030.
  • AMD shares jumped roughly 20%–35% in early trading following the announcement, while some reports noted a modest dip in Nvidia’s stock.
  • AMD executives said the agreement could translate into tens of billions of dollars in revenue and, alongside other customers, potentially exceed $100 billion over several years.
  • The deal follows OpenAI’s previously disclosed $100 billion-class Nvidia arrangement and is framed as supply diversification, with plans to use AMD chips for large-scale inference and new U.S. data centers.