Posted 3/17/2024, 12:07:00 PM
AMD and Axcelis Chipmakers Poised for Growth Amid Booming AI and EV Demand
- AMD emerging as competitor to Nvidia in AI data centers with new MI300 chips, also seeing growth in personal computers with Ryzen 700 series
- Axcelis manufactures critical ion implantation equipment for chip fabrication, seeing demand from electric vehicles and AI semiconductors
- Axcelis delivered record $1.13B revenue in 2023, has $1.2B order backlog setting up another record year
- Axcelis stock is down 44% from highs, trades at attractive P/E ratio of 14.6X compared to industry average of 35.6X
- Wall Street analysts overwhelmingly bullish on both AMD and Axcelis stocks