AMD reported its first loss since the first quarter of 2005, losing $574 million or $1.08 per share, during the fourth quarter. Most of AMD's loss can be attributed to the acquisition of ATI; AMD said that it took $550 million in charges related to the purchase of the graphics company, which works out to about $1.04 per share. Another 5¢ per share of charges, or $27 million, came from stock-based compensation expenses. Another cause of this loss can be blamed on the price war between AMD and Intel.
Nevertheless, the Sunnyvale-based company set a record for total CPU shipments last quarter, a growth of 26%, although it wouldn't reveal the exact numbers. Another blow to AMD came early this year when Sun decided to forego its exclusive x86 supplier arrangement with AMD in favor of a new partnership with Intel. AMD expects to see some savings from the ongoing transition to the 65nm chip form factor and expects Barcelona, which arrives in the second half of 2007, to do be particularly competitive with Intel's offerings.
News source: Ars Technica
Nevertheless, the Sunnyvale-based company set a record for total CPU shipments last quarter, a growth of 26%, although it wouldn't reveal the exact numbers. Another blow to AMD came early this year when Sun decided to forego its exclusive x86 supplier arrangement with AMD in favor of a new partnership with Intel. AMD expects to see some savings from the ongoing transition to the 65nm chip form factor and expects Barcelona, which arrives in the second half of 2007, to do be particularly competitive with Intel's offerings.
News source: Ars Technica
Even after that it still took Intel a good few years to regain the lead with the C2D, so AMD had every right to be cocky.
Define "Cocky"
I agree. I pray AMD has something up their sleeve; it would be bad to lose AMD and let Intel release CPUs when ever they feel like it.
Even if AMD has something up their sleeve, it has been well known in the industry that they have been strugging to get good yields on their 65nm process technology. All of this while Intel has been running successfuly for at least a year now on 65nm not to mention it was their best yielding and fastest ramp to date than any other process technology in the past. Intel has at least a 1 1/2 year lead in process technology. Now remember, I'm strictly talking about process technology and not the actual product lines. That can vary greatly but of course the process technology plays a big role in that.
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