DOE Unleashes $1 Billion AMD Supercomputing Powerhouse

The Department of Energy just dropped a billion-dollar computing bomb—and AMD is holding the detonator.

Supercomputing Arms Race Escalates

Washington's latest power move puts $1 billion directly into AMD's architecture, signaling a massive bet on next-generation computational infrastructure. This isn't just an upgrade—it's a complete overhaul of America's digital backbone.

Processing Power Meets National Security

The deal positions AMD chips at the center of critical government operations, from climate modeling to nuclear simulation. Forget consumer graphics cards—we're talking about systems that could probably calculate your crypto portfolio's future value before you even buy the tokens.

While Wall Street analysts debate whether this constitutes 'efficient government spending,' one thing's clear: when Uncle Sam spends this much on computing hardware, the entire tech ecosystem feels the tremors. Maybe they're finally building a machine that can process all those blockchain transactions faster than my morning coffee order.

Energy Secretary Wright said the systems WOULD “supercharge” advances in nuclear power and fusion energy, technologies for defense and national security, and the development of drugs. US scientists are reportedly trying to replicate fusion in their research, something that the AMD supercomputers will help with. “We’ve made great progress, but plasmas are unstable, and we need to recreate the center of the sun on Earth,” Energy Secretary Wright told Reuters. “We’re going to get just massively faster progress using the computation from these AI systems that I believe will have practical pathways to harness fusion energy in the next two or three years.”

The new supercomputer will be based around AMD’s MI355X artificial intelligence chips, and the design will also include central processors (CPUs) and networking chips made by AMD. AMD’s Su said the Lux deployment was the fastest deployment of this size of computer that she has seen. “This is the speed and agility that we wanted to do this for the U.S. AI efforts,” Su said.

Shares in AMD stock climbed a fraction of a percent on Monday following the Reuters report. In the past month, AMD has gained nearly 60%, trading at an all-time high. Amid the AI wars on the US stock market, the company is one of the best-performing tech stocks on the US market, even outperforming Nvidia this year. The use of AMD’s chips in the new supercomputers will spike demand for AMD, and thus likely boost their stock further this week.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will release its Q3 2025 earnings report on Tuesday, November 4, after the market closes. Analysts expect AMD to report a profit of $0.97 per share on a diluted basis, up 27.6% from $0.76 per share in the year-ago quarter, per Barchart. Meanwhile, AMD expects revenue in the range of $8.4 billion to $9 billion for Q3.