Agentic AI Craze Drives Significant Increase in CPU Demand, But Morgan Stanley Pours Cold Water: Don’t Follow the Trend to Buy Intel, AMD.
Tradingkey - Since the beginning of this year, the wave of Agentic AI has driven an exponential increase in market demand for CPU chips, shifting the previous narrative that only GPUs would significantly benefit from AI. Current mainstream Agentic AI includes Anthropic’s Claude Cowork and OpenClaw. In the Agentic AI era, the role of the CPU has transitioned from an auxiliary component in the computing power value chain to the central control hub of agent systems. In this era, a CPU’s concurrency capabilities, memory bandwidth, and scheduling efficiency directly determine a system’s response speed and processing power. Once agent concurrency exceeds the CPU's capacity limit, issues such as request queuing and tool call failures arise, directly impacting user experience and system stability.