AMD Selling More CPUs, Posts Record Quarter Too
The CPU market seems to be doing quite well.
Intel just announced that it had its best quarter ever, and it turns out that AMD had a pretty decent one too. AMD announced revenue for the second quarter of 2010 of $1.65 billion – a record on its own for the company, which perhaps signals an extremely healthy time in the processor business.
Even with the growth in revenue, AMD posted a net loss of $43 million, or $0.06 per share, which is mostly attributed to the restructuring with GlobalFoundries and not due to product pricing. AMD also posted an operating income of $125 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of $83 million, or $0.11 per share, and non-GAAP operating income of $138 million.
"Robust demand for our latest mobile platforms and solid execution drove record second quarter revenue and a healthy gross margin," said Dirk Meyer, AMD President and CEO. "Our unmatched combination of microprocessor and graphics capabilities resulted in customers launching a record number of new mobile and desktop platforms. We added Sony as a microprocessor customer and continue to see our existing customers expand their AMD-based platform offerings."
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Not brilliant, but not bad either. I like AMD's value proposition and will continue to support them in future.
It's going to take a long time for AMD to post a profit on CPU's alone. Thank God the GPU division is keeping everything afloat. I don't see anything changing though - AMD will remain the value and mainstream choice now with Intel taking up the high end market. If AMD are content with that they can focus there and and turn a profit.
Bulldozer vs Sandy Bridge will be the proof I think. I get the feeling Sandy Bridge won't see much of an improvement over Nehalem so if Bulldozer is as good as it's hyped to be AMD have a chance to close the performance gap.
My thoughts as well; Sandy Bridge seems to be more focused on power efficiency. Some pretty good numbers too; 3+GHz quad-core chips within an 85W power envelope is damn impressive. But it's still evolution rather than revolution (we could be wrong though..)
Bulldozer on the other hand looks like a much more radical step from AMD, and might just succeed in closing the performance gap a bit.
Just imagine if AMD unveil Bulldozer to be 8 core hyperthread cpus with the low end model coming in at 4GHZ and high ends at 6ghz and all selling for half the price of I7 competitors.
Fat chance guess Im just an AMD fanboy.
Any idea when Bulldozer will be ready?
Any idea when Bulldozer will be ready?
They've apparently started sampling, and will launch sometime 2011:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD [...] 7967.shtml
12 or 16 core procesors
12 or 16 core procesors
Those are server chips, though. The desktop Bulldozer chips will be four, six, or eight cores.
I hope that by April they will be out.Really want to support AMD.
when the bulldozer's comes out then the i7 finally have a rival, so prices can finally begin to drop since they still have a very high price.