AMD data center revenue hits $8.55 billion, up 97% year over year

The chipmaker's server and AI business nearly doubled in a quarter, and management is guiding for roughly $17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue AMD’s data center business nearly doubled in a single year. The chipmaker reported $8.55 billion in data center revenue for the quarter, up 97% year over year. That one segment now does most of the work. According to the company’s results, data center accounted for approximately 58% of AMD’s total revenue, which reached a record $13.4 billion. The numbers behind the quarter AMD reported its fiscal Q3 2026 results on November 3, 2026. Data center revenue came in at $8.546 billion, up from $4.341 billion in Q3 2025. Total revenue of $13.4 billion was up 45% year over year. So the overall company grew fast, but data center grew more than twice as fast. Profitability kept up with the top line. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share rose to $2.09, a 74% increase from the prior year. Non-GAAP gross margin landed at 56%. GAAP operating income reached $2.8 billion for the quarter. What drove the surge The research behind the results points to two product lines. The first is AMD’s EPYC server processors, the CPUs that sit at the heart of many data cent...