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  • DanNeely - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Besides the wafer agreement hit, what does AMD have in the All Other category?

    Also, why are they expecting a revenue decrease for the next quarter, I'd expect a holiday sales bump instead.
  • ZippZ - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link

    Microsoft and Sony order chips ahead of time so they can manufacture the consoles, ship them to distributors and retailers, and retailers have to sell them before christmas. So I'm assuming they reduce their orders after October which means maybe 1 month of large chip orders in the 4th quarter.
  • beck2050 - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Next quarter looks bad, especially as the overall pc market has serious declines.
  • Gothmoth - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    well for intel it doesn´t look bad.

    Intel's financials revealed that the company is on a pretty solid financial footing; it continues to make gains in several core areas, such as its PC business, which experienced 4.5% year-over-year (YoY) growth (a 21% quarter-over-quarter increase) with sales of $8.9 billion. Intel's PC gains are partially due to suppliers building inventory as well as a hike in the ASP (Average Selling Price).
  • Michael Bay - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    They are supposed to finally roll out Zen to kind of buttress that.
  • yuhong - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Ethereum GPU mining sales are probably worth mentioning again
  • Michael Bay - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Maybe AMD could quickly design a sort of miner-specific ASIC thing and capitalize on it?
  • TR-8R - Monday, October 24, 2016 - link

    There are other conpanies who design asics who'd do a better job more quickly.
  • psychobriggsy - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Luckily that's going to be the last WSA charge until 2020 this time around.

    I'm sure AMD will find something else to take a massive financial hit on though.
  • Wreckage - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    A gross margin of 5%? They really must be selling their products at a loss to someone.
  • Yojimbo - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    That includes the one-time wafer supply agreement charge. It's probably not fair to apply it to only this quarter's revenue from the point of view of assessing their costs.
  • bill.rookard - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Yup. But if you go by their non-GAAP numbers that gross margin goes up a lot (31%). They didn't have to take that charge for the wafer supply agreement, they decided to take it and with good reason. They're going to have to take the hit eventually, and it's better to take it now in a strong quarter than to kick it down the road when the future is still somewhat uncertain.

    All in all, not a bad result.
  • tamalero - Sunday, October 30, 2016 - link

    Most probably has to do with their agreements with Microsoft and SONY.
    I remember that they were selling the Nintendo chips for the price of nuts.
  • vladx - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    Wow 5% Gross Margin, that gotta hurt for the shareholders.
  • Alexvrb - Friday, October 21, 2016 - link

    I wish people could read the article before they comment. See bill.rookard's post above. That 5% includes the supply agreement charge. Their fundamentals actually look decent, better than I expected.
  • Hrel - Monday, October 24, 2016 - link

    Makes you wonder how long a company can stay in business losing hundreds of millions virtually every single quarter, AMD has been going like this for around 10 years. That's insane.
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  • Warsun - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link

    Here are the problems.1.AMD does not check stores.All the stores that they pay to have their products in.Stores are hiding the product.I have gone into stores where they are suppose to have my card on the shelf.But i get there an have to talk to customer service to get that card.Because they wont put it on the show room floor.They where payed to sell the product but wont put it out.This is the first problem.Second is the Employees.Some of them are Intel fanboys if not Nvidia Fanboys.They hide graphics cards as well.So Laptops,graphics cards and AMD prebuilt computers are being hidden in stores.You are losing profits because no one in stores sees your product.How do you fix that?What we have been telling you all this time. ADVERTISE YOUR GOT DAMNED PRODUCT!

    If people say.Hey! This commercial on cable says AMD is great an Cheaper than Intel and Nvidia.I'll go to the store an buy that.Then you have a DEMAND for your product!!! They cant HIDE the product anymore.It needs to be on the show room floor because of a few commercials 12 times a month on any stations you can get to run it.Mostly on Thursday and Friday.When people are expecting to get the checks.You don't advertise! AT ALL! You know people get payed in the middle and the end of the month.Even Newegg.com and Steam know this.

    So they put out sales.So suck it up.Stop standing there saying We tried when you haven't learned the basics of advertisement.Get your foot in the door! Advertise.Check an make sure stores sell your product.If not Fine them.Take them to court.You spent money on this.You don't brush it off.
  • Warsun - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link

    Here are the problems.1.AMD does not check stores.All the stores that they pay to have their products in.Stores are hiding the product.I have gone into stores where they are suppose to have my card on the shelf.But i get there an have to talk to customer service to get that card.Because they wont put it on the show room floor.They where payed to sell the product but wont put it out.This is the first problem.Second is the Employees.Some of them are Intel fanboys if not Nvidia Fanboys.They hide graphics cards as well.So Laptops,graphics cards and AMD prebuilt computers are being hidden in stores.You are losing profits because no one in stores sees your product.How do you fix that?What we have been telling you all this time. ADVERTISE YOUR PRODUCT!

    If people say.Hey! This commercial on cable says AMD is great an Cheaper than Intel and Nvidia.I'll go to the store an buy that.Then you have a DEMAND for your product!!! They cant HIDE the product anymore.It needs to be on the show room floor because of a few commercials 12 times a month on any stations you can get to run it.Mostly on Thursday and Friday.When people are expecting to get the checks.You don't advertise! AT ALL! You know people get payed in the middle and the end of the month.Even Newegg.com and Steam know this.

    So they put out sales.So suck it up.Stop standing there saying We tried when you haven't learned the basics of advertisement.Get your foot in the door! Advertise.Check an make sure stores sell your product.If not Fine them.Take them to court.You spent money on this.You don't brush it off.

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