Reply With QuoteDid anybody in the semi business *not* decrease year-over-year in this period ?
AMD loosing money, uncertain free software development funding?
AMD reported a loss of $128 million (-18c EPS) in the third-quarter and a top-line decrease from $1.8 billion q3 last year to $1.4 billion this year. I hope they will be able to keep funding the free radeon xorg driver in the future.. things seem to be going in the right direction, but they've still got a long way to go before we start seeing black numbers on the bottom line.
Did anybody in the semi business *not* decrease year-over-year in this period ?
I think you overestimate the influence of ATi linux customers on AMD/ATis profits. I think ATi is probably the only part of AMD that's still making profits anyway, and this should continue with their excellent new 5xxx series.
I think the reason that AMD loses money is that they try to stay competitive with Intel on a price/performance level on their cpus.
IntelOriginally Posted by bridgman
I like Intel and AMD both, I hope they continue to keep in business, because it's best for us consumers.
Nope, their revenues were down 15% 3Q09 vs 3Q08. Most companies are up relative to 2Q09 but down relative to 3Q08.Intel
Relative to a year ago everyone's unit sales are up but revenues are down. You'd think there had been an economic crisis or something.
Last edited by bridgman; 10-15-2009 at 06:15 PM.
I was looking at the latest info for Q3: Revenue of $9.4 billion and a 33 cent EPS. This was the largest increase from Q2 to Q3 for the last 30 years.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...epri_20091013r
Crisis? What crisis?
You're looking at quarter-over-quarter results (where everyone is up), but xiando was looking at year-over-year results (where everyone is down).
It's more useful if you look at the same period for both companies.
Last edited by bridgman; 10-15-2009 at 08:02 PM.
And red numbers go over to AMD
Not if we're still talking about revenue -- I think AMD was up 18% quarter over quarter, about the same as Intel.
Both companies had lower revenues than a year ago.
Or did we change the subject again ?
Last edited by bridgman; 10-15-2009 at 08:19 PM.
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