AMD in the fifth consecutive quarter received operating profit , and although growth drivers are mostly chips for game consoles.
However, analysts sometimes compared to quarterly reports from Intel and AMD, as companies still are competitors in many market segments. As you may remember , Intel in the third quarter managed to sell a record number of microprocessors - 100 million. pieces. Albeit at the expense of subsidized generation processors Bay Trail, the company was able to increase sales volumes in mature markets showed stabilization of demand.
In this context it is interesting to see how responsive the results of the third quarter, AMD. In the consumer market, the situation is only getting worse, and Lisa Su inclined to explain it other positioning products as compared to Intel. If the PC market, showed signs of stability, it is only in the corporate decisions.
What AMD categorically can not agree with is the adequacy of Intel behavior in the lower price segment, where it promotes subsidized processors Bay Trail. Lisa Su considers this is unacceptable, AMD will never chase some goals, especially working at a loss. Speaking specifically about the mobile segment, here the average selling price of AMD even grown.