Many ordinary people and analysts, of course, were concerned about the outcome of Polaris graphical solutions announcement. No significant impact on the financial results of the second quarter, could not have, because the graphics card Radeon RX 480 sold just one month. However, revenues from the sale of graphic solutions in the second quarter was higher than the traditional seasonal levels. If not for the decline in sales of desktop processors, the GPU proceeds from the sale would "pull out" performance of the entire sector, and the amount received for the second quarter of funds has not decreased to 5% in sequential terms.
Moreover, as explained CEO Lisa Su , in the first half proceeds from the sale of graphics processors has increased by "a two-digit number of percent," compared to the same period last year.
Radeon RX 480 has allowed AMD to raise the quarterly sales volumes of graphics processors to the highest level since the fourth quarter of 2014. The outcomes of Polaris announcement, satisfied AMD, and further release Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 , including the emergence of Polaris in the notebook segment, must only maintain an upward trend indicators. By the way, in the segment of professional graphics solutions AMD's revenue is growing for the third consecutive quarter.
The size of the first batch of Radeon RX 480, was sufficient to saturate the retail chains on the announcement day . In the future, demand exceeded supply by several, but the company is satisfied with the yield of 14-nm products, and is able to increase the proportion to production volumes. In the third quarter, demand and supply of Radeon RX 480 must achieve a balance.
Attempting to answer analysts' questions about the intrigues of rival in the graphics market, Lisa Su calmly several times stated that the course announcement Radeon RX 480 is very happy.
Even a drop in demand for graphical solutions generation Radeon Rx 3xx has not happened. According to Lisa Su, a generational change takes place very smoothly. warehouses overstocking occurs. In the third quarter, AMD revenue move up to 15-21% .
Talk about GPUs Vega before the time Lisa Su refused. It merely explained that this is a new performance architecture with HBM2 type memory support. Details will be announced as the announcement approach . From the earliest mention of Vega we know that it will be a product of 2017.