AMD struggled with declining sales of cpu’s and apu’s in the last quarter, but sales of chips for consoles and gpu sales, ensured that the loss was limited to $ 20 million.
The department of Computing Solutions, where cpu’s and apu’s, saw its sales fall by 12 percent compared to last year and 8 percent compared to the previous quarter. Not only were there fewer of these chips is deposited, but also decreased the average price of the chips.
The Graphics and Visual Solutions segment did considerably better, with a sales increase of 118 percent. This is according to AMD is mainly attributable to the good sales of the new generation of consoles from Sony and Microsoft. Sony now has 7 million units of PS4 sold, while Microsoft’s 5 million shipped. In addition, also wore the big demand of AMD Radeon R7 and R9 graphics cards to the correct numbers.
AMD is in a transition to being less dependent on cpus and apus, where it is difficult to compete with Intel, while the pc market all times performs poorly. The chipontwerpbedrijf therefore focuses more on so-called semi-custom x86-based soc, such as those for the game consoles. In addition to fuel-efficient chips for servers for better results. This year, among other 64bit chips based on the arm architecture for servers will appear.
The total revenue of AMD rose 28 percent to $ 1.4 billion. The loss came in at $ 20 million, where last year a loss of 146 million dollars was ago. During the discussion of the quarterly figures gave ceo Rory Read is still a sneer to Intel, the companies generous subsidies to tablets with Intel chips to make, and refers to with the term contra revenue. “That understanding we know when AMD is not,” he said.