AMD draws hope on Windows 8 for chipverkoop

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AMD draws its hopes on Windows 8 for the loss of, the company to turn them into profit. AMD has in recent months, a loss of 146 million dollars. The company sees declining revenue from apus. The supply of gpu’s for desktops and workstations has remained at the same level.

AMD is struggling with declining revenues because of the fierce competition with rival Intel, and the decline in pc sales. “The adoption of Windows 8 will improve as more touch-formfactors appear and experience more familiar,” said AMD ceo Rory Read during the announcement of the quarterly results, “Windows 8 will be better understood. I think the second half of the year is always better than the first and that manufacturers with many new designs are coming.”

In addition, it draws AMD his hopes on the sale of systems with the new Kabini-, Richland, and Temash-apus. Richland for laptops in the first quarter of this year come true, the delivery of Brazos-successor to Kabini to manufacturers in the first quarter started and the delivery of the Temash-soc, especially for tablets should be in the second quarter to follow.

AMD’s graphics branch, there was a reasonable quarter and the revenue from desktop gpu’s rose, partly due to the success of the Never Settle Reloaded-gamebundels. The supply of gpus for workstations even achieved a record revenue. It also says the ceo of AMD in the second half of 2013 a lot of notebooks with Radeon gpu’s are going to appear. Nevertheless, decreased the total supply of gpus from the company compared to last year.

Compared to last year in particular the turnover of the Computing division with 38 percent. The supply of chips for desktops and notebooks as well as chipsets decreased compared to last quarter and last year. According to AMD, the major reorganization of the company, whereby the company 15 percent of the employees fired, now ready and the chipconcern hopes now in the second half of 2013 to be profitable. AMD sees signs that the pc market is going to recover.

The quarterly loss from AMD came out on to 146 million dollar, where last quarter, a loss of 473 million dollars was suffered in the first quarter of 2012 and 590 million dollars in the red listed had to be. In addition to the sale of new apu’s, a resurgence of the pc market and better Windows 8 adoption should the delivery of embedded chips to consolebouwers for a stable flow of income in AMD care.