AMD market capitalization exceeds Intel for the first time in history

Following the $49 billion acquisition of Xilinx, investors now value AMD more than Intel. With a market capitalization of almost $198 billion, the chipmaker surpassed Intel’s cap of $193.70 billion (at the time of writing). AMD now has a total share count of 1.628 billion, up from 1.2 billion before the Xilinx merger. Combine that with a price per share that is more than double that of Intel, and you get a market capitalization of almost $200 billion.

It is worth noting that market capitalization generally represents what the market (and investors) want towards the company, indirectly predicting future growth prospects. In reality, AMD still controls only a third of the overall x86 CPU market., and Intel is holding on tight to the rest. However, with the Xilinx merger/acquisition, AMD will now have access to a much broader market including 5G equipment, IoT, autonomous driving technology, embedded, and other networking hardware.

AMD has a market capitalization of nearly $200 billion.

By comparison, NVIDIA has a market capitalization of $662 billion, more than 50% more than the capitalization of AMD and Intel combined. The chipmaker’s push toward AI, neural networks, accelerators, and cutting-edge graphics cards have put it at the forefront of modern compute and graphics architectures.