{
  "id": 174245,
  "title": "AMD's data center business just more than doubled, and gaming is paying the price",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/amds-data-center-business-just-more-than-doubled-and-gaming-is-paying",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-05T12:46:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechSpot",
    "slug": "techspot",
    "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/113358-amd-data-center-business-more-than-doubled-gaming.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "AMD's data center business has more than doubled in size, with gaming sales struggling as the primary driver. The company reported $6.7 billion in data center revenue for Q2 2026, up from $3.2 billion a year earlier and $5.8 billion in the previous quarter. This marks 58% of AMD's total revenue, showing the growing importance of AI compute demand. Overall, AMD's revenue reached a record $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year. CFO Jean Hu emphasized this shift, stating data center accounted for 58% of company revenue. CEO Lisa Su expects the data center segment to more than double year-over-year in 2027 due to AI infrastructure growth. Gamers faced challenges, with gaming revenue falling 31% to $779 million, attributed to higher component costs and price-sensitive consumers affecting console and device sales. Despite the decline, AMD's PC and gaming business still grew 6% due to stronger client processor sales. This shift towards data center and AI workloads indicates AMD will continue investing in dense computing and advanced interconnects to cater to large-scale AI training and inference.",
  "summary": "AMD's overall revenue reached a record $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year. \"Revenue increased 50 percent year-over-year to a record $11.5 billion, driven by continued strength in our Data Center business, which represented 58% of company revenue in the quarter,\" AMD CFO Jean Hu wrote. That mix puts data center and... Read Entire Article",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}