On August 7, Advanced Micro Devices rose 3.01% in pre-market trading, trading at approximately $504.18/share, with turnover of $3.58 billion. The rebound follows the announcement of an acquisition and a wave of bullish analyst revisions.

On the news front, AMD announced the acquisition of AI chip startup Taalas, with deal terms undisclosed. Taalas specializes in AI inference acceleration, developing technology that improves data routing and reduces memory bottlenecks in traditional chip designs. AMD plans to integrate Taalas technology with its Instinct series Helios rack, constructing a disaggregated architecture where GPUs handle compute-intensive prompt processing while Taalas accelerators offload token generation tasks.

Simultaneously, multiple investment banks raised AMD price targets: Wells Fargo to $700 maintaining Overweight, Argus to $625 from $450 maintaining Buy, and DA Davidson to $550. The stock had previously retreated over 7% after its Q3 revenue guidance midpoint of $13 billion, while beating consensus estimates of $12.5 billion, failed to satisfy some aggressive investors expecting $14 billion or above. The Taalas acquisition and price target upgrades are driving share price recovery from that pullback.

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