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The next-generation Xbox console is on track to launch in 2027 - at least that's what chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices believes. At its latest quarterly earnings call, AMD said the development on the custom chipset that will power the next-gen Xbox was "progressing well" to support the launch of the console in 2027. Initial reports and leaks placed the launch of the next Xbox, believed to be a PC/console hybrid running Windows, in 2027, along with Sony's PlayStation 6.
Revenue growth was just 5.6% annually in the past 3 years, but is expected to accelerate to over 34% annually in the coming years. EPS growth (minus non-recurring items) is expected to grow at a near-50% clip, too. A big mistake many investors made with AMD a year back is that they assumed the company had no prospects. After all, Nvidia controls 90-something percent of the AI GPU market.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company crushed Q4 earnings, reporting record profits that blew past Wall Street's expectations. Revenue hit $33.73 billion against a $1.03 trillion consensus, while EPS came in at $19.50 versus $17.89 expected. TSMC raised Q1 2026 guidance to $34.6-$35.8 billion with gross margins expanding to 63-65%, up from 62.3% last quarter. The market's response was immediate: semiconductor stocks rallied across the board in premarket trading, with ASML crossing $500 billion in market cap.
In the years ahead, AI is going to be a multi-layered fabric that gets woven into every level of computing at the personal layer," Tikoo said. "Our AI PCs and devices will transform how we work, how we play, how we create and how we connect with each other.
AMD's Strix Halo, aka " Ryzen AI Max," is a hugely expensive chip that includes some of the most powerful integrated graphics ever made. Though AMD initially marketed it more to AI workloads with its tremendous complement of up to 128GB of RAM, it's also inspired some unprecedented gaming designs - by far the most powerful handheld, the Framework Desktop, and this monster Asus tablet.
Among the winners, there are a number of stocks I think can continue to outperform in the year ahead. In this piece, I thought I'd dive into two companies that have blown away the market's return this year, and been key drivers of this performance. These are companies I think can continue to outperform in 2026, and may still be buying opportunities after their impressive 2025.
Just this morning, analysts at Mizuho reiterated an outperform rating on Advanced Micro Devices ( NASDAQ: AMD) with a price target of $275 from $205. All after AMD announced a long-term deal to become a key supplier to OpenAI's AI infrastructure program. AMD added that the new partnership will allow it to generate billions of dollars in annual revenue. It will also allow it to generate over $100 billion in total revenue from chips over the next few years.
HP ZBooks are synonymous with power, which is why ITPro has reviewed a handful of machines in this lineup so favourably - if all guns blazing performance is what you're looking for, you'd be hard-pressed to look any further. That's because these machines look good and feel great to use, too, thanks to the engineering prowess the manufacturer has shown in building this family of workstations.
AMD has sold 6 gigawatts and $90 billion worth of AI capacity to OpenAI. In addition, the arrangement sets up the ChatGPT maker to purchase up to 10 percent of AMD's shares. The deal inspires extraordinary confidence in Nvidia's biggest competitor. Why? First, OpenAI will use a single gigawatt of Instinct MI450 GPUs for AI calculations. As it happens, this chip design will not be released for another year.
It's been a banner year, so far, for cryptocurrency enthusiasts worldwide. Bitcoin ( CRYPTO:BTC), the world's most popular cryptocurrency, touched an all-time high of $124,457.12 in mid-August before pulling back to around $110,000 in the month's final trading days. With that, Bitcoin was up by 20% (give or take a few percentage points) at the end of August. That's an impressive year-to-date performance, and some commentators are bracing for even higher Bitcoin prices.
During the company's Q2 earnings call, president Martin Lau stated, "From our own perspective, we do have enough chips for training and continuous upgrade of our existing models." Lau emphasized that Tencent is executing numerous software improvements to drive efficiency in inference, allowing for more workloads with the same number of chips.
