AMD vs Arm Holdings

AMD — Hardware · Public · $785.1B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Arm Holdings — Hardware · Public · $282.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

AMD Kria SOMs and Arm Neoverse CSS N4 do comparable work on AI compute hardware; same layer and the same scale band (large-cap).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale band

3 of 9 capabilities — Shares AI compute hardware, accelerator silicon and model inference.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship hardware.

Ludbee product records

Same scale band — Both large-cap.

Ludbee scale bands · from valuation and funding figures

Aligned comparison

FieldAMDArm Holdings
Market cap$785.1B$282.8B Arm Holdings has 2.8× smaller
Employees31,0009,584 Arm Holdings has 3.2× fewer
Founded19691990 21 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerHardware, Infrastructure service, PlatformHardware
HeadquartersSanta Clara, USACambridge, United Kingdom

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareModel inference

Not verified for Arm Holdings · 6

GPU cloudGPU programmingInterconnectModel hostingModel trainingServer systems

Recorded for AMD. Arm Holdings’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for AMD · 3

Autonomous drivingIP licensingRobot control

Recorded for Arm Holdings. AMD’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

AMD

Hardware

AMD Helios Rackscale SolutionHardware

A rack-scale AI system combining 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs with EPYC CPUs and Pensando networking for frontier-model training and large-scale inference.

AMD InstinctHardware

Data-centre GPU accelerators for training and serving models, sold in OEM servers and rack systems.

AMD Kria SOMsHardware

System-on-module family for deploying edge and physical AI, with production SOMs and partner-validated carrier systems.

AMD Pensando AI NICsHardware

AI NIC family (Pollara 400 at 400 Gbps, Vulcano 800 at 800 Gbps Ethernet) for scale-out inter-GPU communication in AI training and inference clusters, built on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium specification.

AMD Pensando DPUsHardware

Data processing unit family (Salina, Giglio) offloading networking, security and storage services from host CPUs in AI data centres, programmable via the P4-based Pensando software stack.

AMD Versal AI CoreHardware

Adaptive SoC/FPGA family for AI inference and adaptive compute workloads.

AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2Hardware

Second-generation Versal AI Edge adaptive SoC family for embedded AI preprocessing, inference and postprocessing.

Arm Holdings

Hardware

Arm AGI CPUHardware

Arm's first self-designed, TSMC-manufactured production CPU — up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores on 3nm — built for sustained agentic-AI data-centre workloads and co-developed with lead customer Meta.

Arm CSS for Mobile 2Hardware

Arm's second-generation mobile compute subsystem — the C2 CPU cluster (C2-Ultra, C2-Pro) with SME2 for on-device agentic AI — positioned by Arm against "the previous generation Arm (Lumex) reference platform".

Arm Ethos-U55Hardware

A licensable microNPU IP core that adds on-device ML inference to area- and power-constrained embedded and IoT designs paired with Cortex-M processors.

Arm Ethos-U65Hardware

A licensable microNPU IP core delivering roughly double the on-device inference performance of Ethos-U55, for Cortex-A, Cortex-R and Neoverse-based edge systems.

Arm Ethos-U85Hardware

Neural processing unit designs licensed to chip makers for running models on edge and mobile devices.

Arm Lumex CSSHardware

Arm's AI-first mobile Compute Subsystem, a licensable CPU, GPU and system-IP bundle for on-device generative AI, shipping in the vivo X300 and OPPO Find X9.

Arm NeoverseHardware

CPU designs licensed to chip makers for servers and data-centre silicon, including the host processors in AI systems.

Arm Neoverse CSS N4Hardware

A configurable, pre-validated compute subsystem built on Neoverse N4 cores (8–128 cores per die, Armv9.3, up to 3.8 GHz on 3 nm) with integrated system IP, delivered to partners as RTL for agentic-infrastructure silicon.

Arm Zena CSSHardware

A licensable physical-AI Compute Subsystem combining Cortex-A and Cortex-R processors with system IP for safety-relevant AI-defined vehicle and robotics SoCs.

No counterpart

AMD sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Arm Holdings yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

AMD Enterprise AI Reference StackPlatform

An open-source reference stack for running enterprise AI workloads at scale on AMD compute: open-source AI frameworks and generative models connected to an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform, with AMD Inference Microservices — prebuilt inference containers bundling model, engine and optimised configuration for AMD hardware.

AMD ROCmPlatform

Open-source GPU computing stack of compilers, runtimes and libraries for running AI and HPC workloads on AMD hardware.

AMD Ryzen AI SoftwarePlatform

A development stack of compiler, runtime and tools for porting pretrained models onto the NPU and integrated GPU of Ryzen AI processors.

AMD Vitis AIPlatform

An open-source AI inference development stack of compiler, optimised NPU IP and runtime for deploying deep-learning models on AMD adaptive SoCs, FPGAs and Alveo cards.

Infrastructure service

AMD Developer CloudInfrastructure service

An on-demand cloud service giving developers browser and API access to AMD Instinct MI300X GPU instances for AI, ML and HPC workloads.