AMD reports 3rdqt. results

[Nemesis 1]

http://torontostar.morningstar.ca/globalhome/industry/news.asp?articleid=355504

 

[postmortemIA]

no surprise here, amd is back to losing money ... 🙁

 

[Dekasa]

Even so, they're losing a lot less than they used to, and that's good. If Bobcat does well, they should make a pretty good amount more in notebook/netbook sales, which should bring them to profitability (I hope).

 

[veri745]

Still positive on the operating income side, which is good. AMD is in a particularly weak position until BD and Ontario are released. I'm not surprised they're forecasting a flat transition to Q4.

Hopefully they can make some money next year.

 

[RavenSEAL]

At least they are making up a little bit of ground intel, don't give up AMD! You'll get there!

 

[OCGuy]

Yikes...they are prime candidate to be bought out.

Intel is posting record numbers, AMD is still flat.

 

[busydude]

By the numbers:

• Computing solutions revenue was $1.23 billion on strong notebook demand. Operating income was $164 million.
• Graphics processor revenue was $390 million with operating income of 1 million.
• Average selling prices for AMD’s chips “decreased slightly” from the second quarter.
• AMD’s employee count was 11,021 at the end of the third quarter, up from 10,649 at the end of the second quarter.
• AMD ended the third quarter with cash and equivalents of $1.73 billion.

Also, AMD's CEO talked about tablets when discussing these results.

A tablet would optimally have power dissipation of two to three watts, which is a little more than half of what a fanless Netbook would tolerate. I expect customers will take components designed with Netbooks in mind and put them in tablets. And I think you'll see AMD solutions in tablets in the next couple of years for that reason.

"It's [a market] we'll devote significant R&D energy towards when the market is big enough to justify that investment. Frankly, we're still so small in the notebook market that it doesn't make sense for us to turn R&D dollar spending toward the tablet market yet. We'll start doing that when the market is big enough."

And what might an AMD tablet chip offer? "We'll show up with a differentiated offering with great graphics and video technology," Meyer said.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Ya I read that report. 2 years maybe they will do a tablet . 9 watts for zacata just doesn't cut it . I really don't believe zacata can compete with intel sb in notbooks and intel has a 17watt SB also . So were zacata goes is anyones guess , But it won't be in tablets and thats a fact.