AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot.
The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include Eric Trump. For a company long cast as the perennial number two in AI silicon, the choice of battleground is pointed.
The company is not a conventional robotics outfit. Its Phantom machines have been tested in Ukraine, and Foundation has since won Pentagon contracts to develop humanoid robots for the US military. Heavy industry and the battlefield are, in its telling, the same market.
Under the deal, announced on July 23, Foundation’s robots will run on AMD’s Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors, the embedded chips the company introduced in January. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Eric Trump has been an investor in Foundation since early 2026 and serves as its chief strategy adviser. He and his brother Donald Trump Jr. have backed a string of defence and hardware firms, among them the Israeli drone-maker XTEND, Unusual Machines, and Powerus.The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!
