Last year showed a mixed trend in sales of AMD processors . For the year, sales of processors client class declined, but in the last quarter revenue core business units raised the demand for processors for notebooks. General trends in demand for AMD processors management described in the quarterly reporting conference.
General Director Lisa Su explained that in the fourth quarter, sales of mobile processors grew by double figures per cent compared with the third quarter, and the good results of sales of finished computers in the so-called Black Friday. In the retail segment, revenues from the sale of the brand of processors is growing for the third consecutive quarter, demand not only the hybrid processor family "A", and the productive models FX.
The company is happy with their success in the segment of commercial PC. In this area, sales of hybrid processors in the second half of the year increased by 15% compared with the first half of the year. Ready computers based on AMD processors willing to buy both large corporations and small and medium businesses.
In the segment graphics revenues grew last two quarters last year. It was promoted by good demand for the family video card Radeon Rx 3xx - both in the public sector as well as in performance. In addition, increased demand for professional graphics solutions AMD. New Games warmed up the demand for a series of flagship solution Radeon R9, especially in the fourth quarter. In the coming year, according to the guide AMD, demand for productive video card will be warmed appearance on the market of virtual reality devices Oculus and HTC.