{"id":13823,"date":"2022-02-16T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/amd-has-a-larger-market-cap-than-intel-for-the-first-time-ever\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:07:07","slug":"amd-has-a-larger-market-cap-than-intel-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/amd-has-a-larger-market-cap-than-intel-for-the-first-time-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD has a larger market cap than Intel for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What just happened?<\/strong> AMD\u2019s fortunes have turned around since the launch of its first Zen architecture in 2017, though few would have expected it to hit this milestone in such a short amount of time: AMD now has a larger market cap than rival Intel for the first time ever. <\/p>\n

The sudden boost in AMD\u2019s market cap came from its $49 billion all-stock takeover of Xilinx<\/a> on Monday, 15 months after the move was announced. The change in the companies\u2019 stock prices added 40% extra to the deal; it was worth $35 billion back when first AMD revealed its intentions.<\/p>\n

The acquisition is one of the largest in tech history, sitting behind Dell paying $67 billion for EMC in 2015 and Microsoft’s recent purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion.<\/p>\n

The deal meant that for every share of Xilinx a shareholder held, they received 1.7234 new shares of AMD, converting 248.38 million of the former into 428 million of the latter. As a result, AMD\u2019s overall share count increased to 1.628 million, writes Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The increase in the number of shares saw AMD\u2019s market cap jump to $197.75 billion, pushing it past Intel\u2019s $197.24 billion by $51 million.<\/p>\n

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Steam survey<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a good month for AMD. In addition to passing Intel\u2019s market cap, team red hit a record<\/a> 25.6% share of the overall x86 market. It also bounced back in January\u2019s Steam survey<\/a> after the number of participants using its CPUs fell in December. Moreover, its stock price is $121.47, more than double Intel\u2019s $48.44.<\/p>\n

Intel still boasts three-quarters of the x86 market share, of course, and its CPUs are found in 70% of Steam survey participants\u2019 PCs. It also brings in more revenue and profit than AMD, not to mention it has its own fabs. But the Ryzen maker keeps chipping away at the blue team’s lead, and we can expect things to get even more interesting when the all-new Zen 4<\/a> arrives later this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n