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Forums - PC - AMD ships 1.3 million Fusion APUs, 35 million DirectX 11 GPUs

zarx on 22 January 2011

Hey, this interim CEO thing doesn't seem to be too hard at all. Thomas Seifert, the temporary solution to the problem created by Dirk Meyer's departure from AMD's top spot, has had a pretty comfy ride reporting the company's latest quarterly results. The pecuniary numbers themselves ($1.65b revenue, $375m net income) were tame and unexciting, but Seifert got to make a pair of juicy milestone announcements. Firstly, on the mobile and ever-so-efficient front, he noted that 1.3 million Fusion APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) have been shipped to partners since AMD started deliveries in November, and secondly, in terms of discrete graphics chips, he disclosed that the Radeon HD 5000 andHD 6000 series DirectX 11 GPUs have surpassed the 35 million units shipped mark. To give you some perspective on what that means, sales of Nintendo's bestselling Wii console are hovering somewhere around the same figure. So yes, AMD, your wagon has momentum, but shouldn't it have a driver too? 

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/22/amd-ships-1-3-million-fusion-apus-35-million-directx-11-gpus-s/



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Foamer on 22 January 2011

Those figures are US only, like the Wii figure? If so... wow.



Squilliam on 22 January 2011

AMD are finally doing well, its a nice change from the doom and gloom!



Tease.

Kynes on 22 January 2011
Foamer said:

Those figures are US only, like the Wii figure? If so... wow.


No, AMD numbers are worldwide.



Soleron on 22 January 2011
Squilliam said:

AMD are finally doing well, its a nice change from the doom and gloom!


That's why they just fired their CEO!

...wait, that doesn't make any sense. They didn't even have a replacement in mind either.

 

Bulldozer should be good though. I'm frankly amazed that AMD can still sell Phenom IIs against Sandy Bridge at a profit though. Even if BD brings them up to Nehalem level they should be perfectly fine. Coming May.



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Squilliam on 22 January 2011
Soleron said:
Squilliam said:

AMD are finally doing well, its a nice change from the doom and gloom!


That's why they just fired their CEO!

...wait, that doesn't make any sense. They didn't even have a replacement in mind either.

 

Bulldozer should be good though. I'm frankly amazed that AMD can still sell Phenom IIs against Sandy Bridge at a profit though. Even if BD brings them up to Nehalem level they should be perfectly fine. Coming May.

They fired their CEO because of their lack of direction in the mobile segment and the fact that he sold off their mobile division.

Anyway Bulldozer had better be good though Llano being a 32nm Phenom II ought to be good for the low/mid range market. I suspect that Intel has sort of been letting them survive more than anything, had they wanted to im sure Intel could have dominated the sub $200 market also.



Tease.

mchaza on 23 January 2011

and people say pc gaming is dead



Of Course That's Just My Opinion, I Could Be Wrong

Kynes on 23 January 2011
Squilliam said:
Soleron said:
Squilliam said:

AMD are finally doing well, its a nice change from the doom and gloom!


That's why they just fired their CEO!

...wait, that doesn't make any sense. They didn't even have a replacement in mind either.

 

Bulldozer should be good though. I'm frankly amazed that AMD can still sell Phenom IIs against Sandy Bridge at a profit though. Even if BD brings them up to Nehalem level they should be perfectly fine. Coming May.

They fired their CEO because of their lack of direction in the mobile segment and the fact that he sold off their mobile division.

Anyway Bulldozer had better be good though Llano being a 32nm Phenom II ought to be good for the low/mid range market. I suspect that Intel has sort of been letting them survive more than anything, had they wanted to im sure Intel could have dominated the sub $200 market also.

Intel has to let AMD survive. If AMD crashes, the competency agencies could separate the factories and the designing teams into two companies as AMD has done, or they could make the X86 licenses free to improve the competency. Intel is the most interested in keeping AMD alive.