Yesterday AMD company reported about the financial results of its activity for the first quarter present year. It succeeded in rescuing $1,177 billion, which was even higher than the forecasts. In the annual expression, the gain was reduced by 21%. For the companies, it was possible to reduce the losses sizes from $1,437 billion in the fourth quarter 2008 to $416 ml in the first quarter present year. According to AMD leaders forecasts , in the second quarter the gain indices will show up finally .
AMD Income from processors sells for the past block increased simultaneously with the quantity of sold processors, and price was reduced. This is due to the current AMD price policy and also due to demand displacement in favor of inexpensive products. Furthermore, server segment suffered strongly. In the second-half in this block AMD promises to present the dual core processors neo (Congo), which will be used in inexpensive thin and light notebooks. Incomes from graphic chips sale in the first quarter were reduced as their mean price in comparison with the last block last year.
AMD Chapter acknowledged at the current conference that the company decided to accelerate the announcement of the six-core server processors Istanbul, which will be compatible with the existing motherboard . If earlier it was planned to present them in the second-half this year, then the now commercial deliveries of six-core Opteron will begin during May, and the first systems on their base can be purchased during June in the present year. Related Products :
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