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By Johann M Cherian and Shashwat Chauhan Aug 5 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the S&P 500 and the Dow edged up on Wednesday on hopes of a Middle East peace breakthrough, while ones tied to the Nasdaq

AMD (AMD) reported second quarter results on Tuesday after the closing bell. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) came in at $1.66 (compared to analyst estimates of $1.62), and revenue came in at $11.54 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $11.31 billion). Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a closer look at the breaking numbers, including capex.
Earnings continue to be the market's engine, and a series of results this week from Palantir, SpaceX, and AMD are set to rev up stocks again.
Analyst points to increasing concerns over Federal Reserve credibility, rising long-term Treasury yields, and the potential unwinding of yen carry trades as major risks for Bitcoin.
AMD's 2.5-gigawatt infrastructure agreement could expand the capacity available to customers deploying its artificial-intelligence systems.
AMD Stock Surges After Bullish Analyst Sees More AI Upside
Core Scientific Inc (CORZ) reports strong financial stability and strategic advancements with a major AMD partnership, despite challenges in transitioning from Bitcoin mining.
Core Scientific announces a partnership with AMD for 2.5 gigawatts of data-center capacity which could bring more than $14 billion in contracted revenue.
Shares in AI infrastructure provider Core Scientific jumped around 5% in premarket trading after it announced a deal with chip maker AMD. The deal's initial phase would see AMD use 500 megawatts of Core Scientific data-center capacity by 2027.
Intel beat forecasts by $1.7B and still lost 11%. Oil, rates, and chip selling explain it better. What has Jim Cramer got to do with it?

Intel stock (INTC), which initially surged following its second quarter earnings yesterday, is trying to hold onto some of its gains Friday morning. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré and Interactive Brokers chief strategist Steve Sosnick to discuss Intel's earnings release, outlook, and performance of its various business segments.
Intel's stock is surging while the rest of the chip sector sits flat, and the reasons behind that split tell a much bigger story about where the semiconductor race is actually headed.
U.S. chipmaking giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are signing longer-term purchase commitments with Chinese server customers for data-centre processors as prices surge, two people familiar with the talks said. The move highlights a broader consequence of the AI boom: demand has spread beyond AI accelerators to memory, networking gear and server processors, giving suppliers greater leverage to seek long-term purchase deals. AI data centres require not only Nvidia-style graphics processors (GPUs) but also large numbers of central processing units (CPUs) to support servers, storage, networking and inference workloads.
Infleqtion received three Department of Energy research projects and led gains among the companies tied to the initiative.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD, XETRA:AMD) and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Wednesday that includes the deployment of up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's upcoming Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, a multi-year engineering collaboration, and a planned equity investment by AMD of up to...
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ:AMD, XETRA:AMD) have announced an expanded strategic partnership focused on deploying AMD’s next-generation AI infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, including the rollout of AMD’s Helios rack-scale systems to support...
AMD stock rallied Monday after the chip giant announced an expanded AI partnership with technology giant Microsoft.