AMD has admitted that it already completed the main stages of the company's restructuring.
In the first transformations phase AMD cut costs and increase efficiency. The second stage involves the issuance of all scheduled for 2013 new products and return to operating profitability in the second half of the year. The third phase will transform the company into a manufacturer that receives 40-50% of its revenue from sales of products on priority areas: devices with low-power graphics solutions, server products and embedded solutions. By the end of this year, the share of revenues from such products should reach 20%.
The PC market, according to AMD head annual sales are measured by 300 million units. The PC market is transformed by experimenting with form factors and concepts. AMD is going to follow this trend by offering more established embedded processors. The demand for cloud solutions allow AMD to rely on the interest in such processors developed by taking into account the wishes of the large customers.
During the quarter, AMD promises to start shipping the world's first quad-core systems-on-chip (SoC) with x86-compatible architecture. Compared to any competitor, they provide a twofold advantage in speed of processing cores, and fourfold superiority in graphics speed. The embedded market with x86-compatible architecture for 2016 is expected to grow to $ 7 billion, and AMD makes it a special rate. Obviously, the company had in mind the version of Kabini processors for embedded systems.
This year, according to AMD management , the company will have the widest range in the history of processors with a TDP of 4 to 35 watts. Bulk supply of processors Kabini began in the first quarter, Richland processors are also presented, in the second quarter will join them Temash processors .
AMD will open advantages of its products in mobile devices cost $ 299-399. According to company executives, the second half this year, consumers will begin to better understand Windows 8, the demand for corresponding systems will grow, and this will allow AMD to return to profitability in the second half of the year.