AMD’s Massive OpenAI Deal Shakes Up the AI Chip Race
The 6-Gigawatt AI Chip Deal: Inside the AMD–OpenAI Alliance On October 6, 2025, OpenAI and AMD unveiled a blockbuster agreement that instantly reshaped the AI hardware landscape. OpenAI committed to purchase 6 gigawatts of AMD’s AI accelerators over multiple chip generations ir.amd.com reuters.com. For perspective, six gigawatts of computing is roughly the output of three Hoover Dams or the electricity used by 5 million U.S. households reuters.com. It reflects the sheer scale of compute that OpenAI believes it will need for training future models and serving users. Under the deal, AMD will begin supplying its forthcoming Instinct MI450 GPUs to OpenAI’s data centers