AMD reports Q3 2019 results: good news continues
Lisa Su is not tired of winning. Revenue for the quarter was up 18% from last quarter to $1.8 billion, GAAP profit was $120 million, 243% from last quarter.
AMD at Hot Chips: building for the data center
As gains slowdown from process improvements and die size, power gains require improvements to all aspects of the system. The best way to push semiconductor gains forward says Lisa Su, is to improve all components. (Source AMD) Lisa Su came to Hot Chips this year and provided an overview of AMD’s strategy for development to keep up with the … Read more
AMD Q2 2019 results
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q2 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “I am pleased with our financial performance and execution in the quarter as we ramped production of three leadership 7-nm product families,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “We have reached … Read more
AMD Q4 2018 results
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q4 2018, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “We delivered our second straight year of significant revenue growth, market share gains, expanded gross margin and improved profitability based on our high-performance products. Importantly, we more than doubled our EPYC processor shipments … Read more
CES 2019, random news
CES this year was notable for a few reasons. Great big giant TVs have fallen off the radar of the general interest tech pubs to be replaced by gadgets and bread-baking boxes. It seems TV have reached their largest practical size for home use. Practically speaking, there is a ratio for the optimum distance from screen to couch that I … Read more
AMD Q3 2018 results
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q3 2018, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. We delivered our fifth straight quarter of year-over-year revenue and net income growth driven largely by the accelerated adoption of our Ryzen, EPYC and datacenter graphics products, said Lisa Su. “Client and server processor … Read more
Core Wars: AMD and Intel update an old battle
In the beginning, back in when the fabulous 286 was introduced in 1982, several companies sought to clone it, AMD being the most successful. That started the MHz wars, and we users and the happy replicants of the war, the ISVs, enjoyed the bi-annual clock increases and subsequent performance boosts. Ah, those were the days when we have a simple … Read more
New team, new day
AMD brings in some industry heavyweights AMD has announced the addition of two computer industry veterans to its Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) and to its executive team: Mike Reyfield from Micron Technology and David Wang from Synaptics. AMD will support Wang and Reyfield with dedicated engineering and business teams within RTG. AMD’s C-suite t’s a new arrangement in that the … Read more
AMD lines up its new ducks and takes aim at Intel
2018 hopes to win over gamers and place big bets for HPC AMD’s mission for CES was to convince its OEM customers and PC users that it can keep up the momentum of its CPU and GPU technology developments and deliver on its promises. The company took a day before CES to lay out to press and analysts exactly what’s … Read more
Passing the baton
One of the great designers, visionaries, and most joyful people in the world is Raja Koduri. He is also a personal friend. Raja, after too many years of 25-hour days, and with a pile of world-class successes behind him has decided to take a new direction in life, and has moved back to India to care for family members and … Read more