Chip maker AMD reports a fourth-quarter loss of $1.42 billion as revenue fell 33% from a year earlier.
Source: WSJ link
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Last edited by xVeinx; 01-22-2009 at 03:36 PM. Reason: wording change on WSJ
Originally Posted by Movieman
Ouch.
AMDs stock is at 2.02$. I wonder what they will be at tomorrow...Gross margins was 23%In the fourth quarter of 2008, AMD reported a net loss of $1.424 billion, or $2.34 per share. For continuing operations, fourth quarter 2008 loss was $1.414 billion, or $2.32 per share, and the operating loss was $1.274 billion. The results for continuing operations include an unfavorable impact of $996 million, or $1.64 per share as described in the table below. Loss from discontinued operations was $10 million, or $0.02 a share.
For the year ended December 27, 2008, AMD achieved revenue of $5.808 billion. Fiscal 2008 net loss was $3.098 billion. AMD reported revenue of $5.858 billion and a net loss of $3.379 billion for fiscal 2007.
CPU down 37%, GPU down 30%.
Last edited by Shintai; 01-22-2009 at 02:06 PM.
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The stocks are going to take a hit, no question.
no it was not, global gross margin was 43%
Fourth quarter 2008 gross margin was 23 percent, including a negative impact of 20 percentage points due to a $227 million incremental write down of inventory due to weak market conditions.
43%
23% is acountig write down of inventory, not chip fabrication.
The number are as bad as everyone predicted. The Arabs are going to be the key to keep amd floating with money.
What is the outlook for Q1?
Last edited by v_rr; 01-22-2009 at 02:11 PM.
They've really hung those shareholders out to dry haven't they? They can't dump it off or they'll get raped, and they can't hang onto it because it's headed for zero. I feel for the shareholders.
Still 23%. The invetory is lost and had 0% gross margins. The other is just fancy accounting. Its not a gross margin covering "some parts".
And Q1 2009 gonna be alot worse.
Its unsellable fabriacted chips.
Also the arabs wont do anything to keep AMD afloat. Not sure where you got that illusion. They would lvoe to see AMD in knees to sell the other 34% in the foundry company. They wanted the fabs with technology. They didnt want AMD.
AMD should spinoff the graphics division soon so it doesnt have to crash with the rest. GPU division made a 10mio loss(270mio revenue), CPU division lost 431mio(873mio revenue).
Last edited by Shintai; 01-22-2009 at 02:24 PM.
That is a lot, goodby to break even point for quite a long time
I just hope they won't go bankrupt, i can't imagine having Intel as the ONLY big x86 CPU player in the market and the total monopoly effects it brought.
How long will AMD last? What after it?
Don't forget VIA.
will AMD profit in the future or its just doomed to disappear ?
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What are the current solidty ratios of AMD and Intel?
Last edited by Xcel; 01-22-2009 at 04:07 PM. Reason: addition
That is one spicy meatball of a loss.
Their stocks are getting so low in value at this point (and apparently headed downward) that if I had more than just some kind of vague hope they'd pull up I'd be buying like crazy. Oh well.
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what about the dubai investors, werent they supposed to take over the plants of something?
i would of thoughts with the sucess of the 4 series the GPU side would be up...
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Originally Posted by jimmyz
With the state of the economy being so dire, I'm not sure what exactly one should make of these results in terms of working out how AMD is doing in a sense.
It may well be that with PhII and the HD4xxx series of cards that their execution has improved markedly, it certainly appears that way, but they could still end up being swamped by the economic cycle working against it.
Next Qtr will be interesting for sure, as I suspect it will be worse for all the major IT players, the question is, how much worse?
AMD's fate rests with their Abu Daddy now, will they see enough potential to throw them a lifeline, or will the next two Qtrs convince them to walk away?
February the Deal is done.
The arabs can also simply buy AMD besides the fabs.
And what do they do if they come to the conclusion in March that they are looking at losses going forward as far as the eye can see?
And lose the x86 licence in the process, how would that make any sense?The arabs can also simply buy AMD besides the fabs.
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Why will they lose X86 license?
It will be still AMD, they simply get a new investor with money. If IBM could buy AMD, the Arabs can also.
Abu Dhabi Wealth Fund is in the same boat as the rest of the world, was worth a whole lot more at the end of 2007 then the end of 2008. Plus oil is way below their break even point.
Not sure they are going to want to pour more money down the hole when nobody knows how long before the good times arrive.
IBM have their own x86 licence, and the licensing agreement between AMD and Intel does not allow for AMD to be sold and retain that licence.
They will only do that if they can see light at the end of the tunnel, and there may not be any that makes sense for them to continue to invest in the foundry industry.
the 4 series was the savior of q3, q4 has problems with useless phenoms that couldent sell becouse of the p2 being right around the corner and core2 price price drops and there, then q3 had most of the 4 series upgrade sales and new card sales are always low
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