Spending on AI has accelerated in recent months, as Wall Street anticipates global expenditures nearing half a trillion dollars by 2026.

It's taken a little longer than anticipated to arrive to market, but AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700 graphics card for AI developers finally has a firm release date and pricing.

DOE announced the Discovery and Lux supercomputers at ORNL to advance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Discovery and Lux will enable AI-driven research that fuels new advances in energy, manufacturing, medicine and cybersecurity.

Chips aren’t the only star of the massive agreement. AMD’s software efforts have slowly turned it into a more formidable competitor to Nvidia.

AMD will power the next-generation Discovery supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs, partnering with the US Department of Energy, ready in early 2026.

AMD is working with the US Department of Energy to build sovereign AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the agency's famous research and development center.

The deal marks a major endorsement of AMD's AI hardware and software capabilities as the company competes with Nvidia for dominance in the AI chip market. AMD executives project the agreement will generate more than $100 billion in new revenue over four years from OpenAI and other customers who follow OpenAI's lead.

AMD now has Ryzen 100 Zen 3+ CPUs, Ryzen 10-series Zen 2 CPUs alongside Ryzen AI 300, 9000, 8000, and 7000 series. Phew.