AMD's revenue in the fourth quarter was $ 1.24 billion., But we instead had to talk about profit loss: $ 330 million At the operational level and $ 364 million Clean. Quarterly revenue fell by 13% in the sequential comparison, and in fact we are talking about the fourth quarter, which traditionally is good to OEMs and electronics. Compared with the fourth quarter of the previous year, revenue decreased by 22%. At the direction of the processor and graphics AMD reduced the amount of desktop processors and graphics solutions, sales revenue has decreased by 15% compared with the previous quarter - to $ 662 million. It is easy to determine that from the sale of CPU, APU and GPU, the company received in the fourth quarter only 53% of revenue. By the way, custom chips for gaming consoles too sunk in revenue by 11% (to $ 577 million.)
In the notebook segment, things are going much better: sales volumes corresponding AMD processors increased, the average price rose - both in quarterly and in the annual comparison. The average selling price of graphics processors has increased only in the quarterly comparison and year it decreased due to more aggressive pricing in retail.
The company managed to reduce operating costs divisions Computing and Graphics, but still ended the quarter with an operating loss of $ 56 million.
For the purchase of silicon wafers at GlobalFoundries, AMD for the entire 2014 spent $ 1 billion. This is less than the previously planned volume at $ 1.2 billion. Negotiations on the 2015 is already underway.
In the first quarter of this year, AMD expects lower revenue by between 12% to 18%. The rate of return should be kept at 34%.
Revenue at the direction of "custom" chips in the whole year increased by 51%, so the sale of accessories for video game consoles for AMD remain an important part of business. Annual revenue increased by 4% to $ 5.51 billion. In annual terms, AMD received from the sale of processors and graphics solutions not more than 57% of revenue, 43% were in emerging markets. The rate of profit in 2014 decreased from 37% to 34%, In 2015, AMD expects to maintain profitability in terms of non-GAAP.