Can AMD Break the CUDA Moat? AMD Advancing AI 2026
Software was broken, progress was unexciting, and we were the top bug submitter for many months with dozens of AMD engineers triaging our bug reports. Six months later, in our AMD 2.0 article, we took the non-consensus position of upgrading from 0% chance to a much more meaningful chance at success. We published this opinion when sentiment towards AMD was sitting at rock bottom, and when most of the market thought we were were being far too optimistic towards AMD.That view was based on our observations that AMD has the leadership that can create change rather than suffer from committee style leadership.
- ▪Software was broken, progress was unexciting, and we were the top bug submitter for many months with dozens of AMD engineers triaging our bug reports.
- ▪Six months later, in our AMD 2.0 article, we took the non-consensus position of upgrading from 0% chance to a much more meaningful chance at success.
- ▪We published this opinion when sentiment towards AMD was sitting at rock bottom, and when most of the market thought we were were being far too optimistic towards AMD.That view was based on our observations that AMD has the leadership that
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| Original publisher | Semianalysis |
| Canonical URL | https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/can-amd-break-the-cuda-moat-amd-advancing |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:04:34 +0000 |
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Can AMD break the CUDA Moat? AMD Advancing AI 2026Up to 105% Equity Rebate Discounts for OpenAI, Agentic Kernel Generation, Improvement in Software Quality, Unstable Internal Development Clusters, Helios MI455X Production Ramp HellBryan Shan, Daniel Nishball, Myron Xie, and 9 othersJul 25, 2026∙ Paid163411ShareWhen we published our first AMD software article, we gave AMD a 0% chance of closing the gap with Nvidia in AI accelerators. Software was broken, progress was unexciting, and we were the top bug submitter for many months with dozens of AMD engineers triaging our bug reports. Six months later, in our AMD 2.0 article, we took the non-consensus position of upgrading from 0% chance to a much more meaningful chance at success.
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