It’s Official: AMD is Worth More than Intel
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by Josh Norem
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After a roaring 2021 in which AMD and Intel saw record revenue and profits, AMD has finally pipped Intel in overall market cap, making it the more valuable company despite being dwarfed by Chipzilla’s sprawling stature. Although market caps due fluctuate based on a company’s stock price, AMD actually pulled this feat off twice in the past week, climbing to a value of $188 billion compared to Intel’s $182 billion. “AMD worth more than Intel” isn’t a headline we expected to write, even briefly, but here we are.
The news of AMD’s sudden surge in valuation comes via Yahoo Finance, which bases the company’s rise on several recent developments. Possibly the most valuable is the news that AMD finally completed its $35 billion purchase of semiconductor Xilinx, which is the largest acquisition in its history. The acquisition is expected to bolster AMD’s portfolio of cloud and data center products going forward. Of course, Intel also had an acquisition of its own recently, as it announced it was purchasing Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion in an effort to add new capacity and services to its Intel Foundry Services (IFS) division, but the merger will take some time to resolve.
Perhaps the biggest reason is just that AMD has been posting better numbers for quite some time, despite those numbers being smaller than Intel’s due to their size discrepancy. As we reported previously, AMD finished 2021 with a 68 percent increase in revenue year-over-year, while Intel only boosted revenue last year by one percent, though it did earn record revenue.
According to Yahoo, in 2022 this trend might continue as AMD has projected a 31 percent growth in revenue, while Intel is anticipating a more meager two percent increase. Intel is also busy dumping truckloads of cash into new projects around the world, such as its new $20 billion fab in Ohio, as it tries to address the surging demand for semiconductors. These expansion plans will likely cause Intel to incur a $36 billion penalty in the near term as it begins…
