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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $76.42 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $880M 8% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $4.73B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Instinct attach stalls, Helios slips, and Data Center growth fades toward EPYC-only. Gaming stays in the trough. Capex does not fall back, so cash stays compressed. What this case does NOT assume is a return to the $800M China-charge quarter or a loss of the Ryzen franchise. It says 2026 was the peak growth year for GPU content.

Embedded

Basis quarter$977M
Final quarter$880M
Implied CAGR−2%
Final revenue mix8%

Xilinx FPGAs, embedded CPUs and adaptive SoCs. $977M in the basis quarter, +19% year over year, 39.5% segment operating margin. The recovery after 2025 customer-inventory digestion. A disclosed reportable segment with its own operating profit, unlike the Client/Gaming sub-lines.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $857M Reported
2025 Q4 $950M Reported
2026 Q1 $873M Reported
2026 Q2 $977M Reported
Versal and other adaptive SoCsEmbedded CPUs and APUsKria SOMs and industrial, auto and A&D FPGAs
Sequential growth +8.0%/qtr decaying toward +2.0% 8% QoQ. Q1-to-Q2 was +12% off a weak Q1; 8% holds the recovery without repeating the jump.
Embedded

Latest: $880M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $823M
2025Q2 $824M
2025Q3 $857M
2025Q4 $950M
2026Q1 $873M
2026Q2 $977M
2026Q3E $1.01B
2026Q4E $1.04B
2027Q1E $1.06B
2027Q2E $1.07B
2027Q3E $1.08B
2027Q4E $1.08B
2028Q1E $1.07B
2028Q2E $1.07B
2028Q3E $1.06B
2028Q4E $1.04B
2029Q1E $1.03B
2029Q2E $1.02B
2029Q3E $1.00B
2029Q4E $984M
2030Q1E $967M
2030Q2E $950M
2030Q3E $932M
2030Q4E $915M
2031Q1E $897M
2031Q2E $880M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Highest-margin disclosed segment and the smallest. Segment operating income $386M is 39.5% of $977M, published, not assumed. Terminal 40% holds that franchise rather than expanding it.
  • FY2025 Embedded was down 3% on customer inventory. Q2 2026 +19% is digestion ending. Opening 8% is below the Q1-to-Q2 jump on purpose.
  • Physical AI (Kria, Ryzen AI Embedded X100) is a content mix inside this line, not a fifth vertical. AMD has not published a robotics revenue series.
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