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NJ5 on 22 January 2010
vlad321 said:
Not to bash or anything however...

They have a $1.288bil profit of that $1.224bil is money they got not from their products but from a lawsuit. So without the lawsuit they'd be at $0.064 billion, or$ 64 million, profit. I sure hope they find someone else to sue for the next quarter then.

On the other hand, Intel's practices have been harming AMD's profits for a long while, and I'm not sure this $1.224 billion even covers all the damages... Intel has succeeded in making the AMD brand smaller, so it's a continuous impact.

 



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Twistedpixel on 22 January 2010
vlad321 said:
Not to bash or anything however...

They have a $1.288bil profit of that $1.224bil is money they got not from their products but from a lawsuit. So without the lawsuit they'd be at $0.064 billion, or$ 64 million, profit. I sure hope they find someone else to sue for the next quarter then.

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arsenicazure on 22 January 2010

$1.2Billion is peanuts... intel paid Dell $6billion just to kiss its ass... Oh well, on the bright side maybe this will help AMD churn out some interesting projects faster.. fusion, ULV GPU's..



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Soleron on 22 January 2010

AMD's conference call said that they expect and revenue to be flat or higher, and margins to be higher, in 2010. Since that's their worst year (no major new products other than desktop 6-cores), and 2011 is certain to be better (32nm, Bulldozer, Bobcat, Fusion) then AMD is no longer in serious danger of bankruptcy.

For anyone that cares, two big things have been leaked over the last few days. Bulldozer cache sizes (by an AMD employee's commit to a compiler project) and model numbers for the 6-cores and 4-core derivatives (Zosma). Such as the Phenom II X4 960T which is presumably 3.3GHz.



vlad321 on 22 January 2010
NJ5 said:
vlad321 said:
Not to bash or anything however...

They have a $1.288bil profit of that $1.224bil is money they got not from their products but from a lawsuit. So without the lawsuit they'd be at $0.064 billion, or$ 64 million, profit. I sure hope they find someone else to sue for the next quarter then.

On the other hand, Intel's practices have been harming AMD's profits for a long while, and I'm not sure this $1.224 billion even covers all the damages... Intel has succeeded in making the AMD brand smaller, so it's a continuous impact.

 

I'm very well aware. I was just saying though, this quarter wouldn't be the best to be happy about at all, now if they make good profits the following quarter then hooray.



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CatFangs806 on 23 January 2010

Yeah. GO AMD!!!!! I just hope this means that fusion and bulldozer come out when expected.