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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD), headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a pioneering multinational semiconductor company specializing in the development of high-performance CPUs, GPUs, and related technologies for both business and consumer markets. AMD designs advanced digital semiconductors for diverse applications, including PCs, gaming consoles, data centers, industrial, and automotive sectors. Historically known for its innovations in CPUs and GPUs, AMD's technology powers devices ranging from personal computers to the high-performing game consoles of Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox.
In 2022, AMD made a strategic acquisition of Xilinx, known for its leadership in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), broadening AMD's product offerings and market opportunities, particularly in data centers and automotive industries. The integration of Xilinx has fortified AMD's portfolio, enabling the delivery of adaptive and scalable solutions.
AMD's first-quarter financial results for 2024 highlighted a revenue of $5.5 billion, a gross margin of 47%, and operating income of $36 million. The non-GAAP gross margin stood at 52%, with a net income of $1.0 billion and diluted earnings per share of $0.62. Significant year-over-year growth in the Data Center and Client segments, driven by the adoption of Ryzen and EPYC processors and the ramp of MI300 AI accelerators, underpinned these results.
Notable achievements include record revenue in the Data Center segment, which saw an 80% year-over-year increase, and a robust portfolio expansion with the launch of new AI solutions for various markets. AMD's partnerships with tech giants like Lenovo, Dell Technologies, and Supermicro underscore its commitment to advancing AI capabilities across cloud, enterprise, and embedded systems. The introduction of the AMD Ryzen PRO and Versal Series Gen 2 devices further showcases AMD's innovation in AI and edge computing.
AMD's outlook for the second quarter of 2024 projects a revenue of approximately $5.7 billion, with continued growth and margin improvement on the horizon. The company remains focused on leveraging AI opportunities to drive future growth.
In recent developments, AMD's collaboration with Optiver highlights the deployment of AMD's high-performance compute solutions, including EPYC CPUs and Alveo accelerators, to enhance financial market infrastructures. Furthermore, AMD's recognition with the IEEE Corporate Innovation Award reflects its pioneering work in chiplet architecture and high-performance computing, emphasizing its leadership in the semiconductor industry.
AMD reported strong financial results for Q4 and full year 2024. Q4 revenue reached a record $7.7 billion, up 24% year-over-year, with non-GAAP gross margin of 54% and record operating income of $2.0 billion. Full-year revenue hit a record $25.8 billion, up 14% from 2023.
The Data Center segment showed exceptional growth, with Q4 revenue up 69% year-over-year to $3.9 billion, driven by AMD Instinct GPU and EPYC CPU sales. Annual Data Center revenue nearly doubled to $12.6 billion. The Client segment achieved record revenue of $2.3 billion in Q4, up 58% year-over-year.
However, the Gaming segment saw a 59% decline to $563 million in Q4, while the Embedded segment decreased 13% to $923 million. AMD expanded its AI partnerships with IBM, Vultr, and Aleph Alpha, focusing on AI infrastructure development and deployment.
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has announced it will release its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial results on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, after market close. The company's management will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. EST / 2:00 p.m. PST to discuss the results. Investors and interested parties can access the webcast through the AMD Investor Relations website at ir.amd.com.
AMD announced that AMD Ryzen AI PRO processors will power new Dell Pro devices, marking their first collaboration on commercial Dell devices. The announcement was made ahead of CES 2025. The third-generation Ryzen AI PRO processors are designed to enhance business productivity with features like live captioning and language translation in conference calls, along with advanced AI image generators.
The processors combine CPU, GPU, and NPU capabilities to deliver exceptional battery life, on-device AI processing, and Copilot+ experiences. These new processors offer security and manageability features through AMD PRO Technologies, aimed at streamlining IT operations and ensuring business ROI. The collaboration extends AMD and Dell's existing partnership, which includes AMD Threadripper PRO processors in workstations and EPYC CPUs in Dell PowerEdge servers.
AMD has announced new gaming products at CES 2025, expanding its leadership across desktop, mobile, and handheld gaming segments. The company unveiled the Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D desktop processors, featuring up to 16 cores and enhanced 3D V-Cache technology, expected to launch in Q1 2025.
The new Ryzen Z2 Series processors for handheld gaming devices offer up to 8 'Zen 5' CPU cores and RDNA 3.5 architecture, promising console-class gaming experiences. Additionally, AMD introduced the Ryzen 9000HX Series mobile processors, including the flagship Ryzen 9955HX3D with 16 cores and 32 threads, targeted at high-performance gaming laptops.
Major OEM partners including Acer, ASUS, and Lenovo have committed to launching new gaming systems powered by these AMD processors, with products expected to hit shelves in the first half of 2025.
AMD has unveiled new processors ahead of CES 2025, expanding its AI PC portfolio with three main series: Ryzen AI Max, Ryzen AI 300, and Ryzen 200, along with their PRO variants for business users.
The flagship Ryzen AI Max Series features up to 16 'Zen 5' CPU cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 graphics compute units, and an XDNA 2 Neural Processing Unit delivering up to 50 TOPS of AI processing. These processors support up to 128GB of unified memory and will be available in Q1 2025.
The Ryzen AI 300 Series includes new Ryzen AI 7 and Ryzen AI 5 models with up to 8 'Zen 5' cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, offering five times better performance than first-generation NPUs. The Ryzen 200 Series, based on 'Zen 4' architecture, will launch in Q2 2025 with up to 8 cores and 16 NPU TOPS.
AMD has announced the Versal RF Series, a groundbreaking adaptive system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates high-resolution RF data converters, DSP hard IP, AI Engines, and programmable logic in a single device. The series offers up to 80 TOPS of DSP performance and features 14-bit, 32 GSPS, 18 GHz RF-ADCs for precise spectrum analysis.
This 5th generation of AMD direct RF devices delivers up to 19X more DSP compute in channelizer mode compared to previous generation Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC. The solution targets aerospace, defense, and test & measurement markets with optimized size, weight, and power (SWaP). Development tools are available now, with silicon samples expected in Q4 2025 and production beginning in H1 2027.
AMD has appointed Tim Keating as Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs. Keating brings extensive experience, including over 14 years at Boeing as executive vice president of Government Relations and previous roles at Honeywell International and the White House. The appointment aims to strengthen AMD's engagement with key stakeholders as high-performance and AI chips become increasingly important in daily life.
AMD announced it will host a press conference during CES 2025 Media Days on January 6 at 11 a.m. PST at the Mandalay Bay. Jack Huynh, AMD's senior vice president and general manager of Computing and Graphics Group, along with other executives will discuss AMD's leadership in PCs and gaming, and showcase the company's high-performance computing and AI product portfolio. The event will be livestreamed on AMD's YouTube Channel with replay available afterward.
AMD has announced two upcoming financial community events. Forrest Norrod, executive vice president and general manager of Data Center Solutions Business Unit, will participate in the UBS Annual Technology Conference on December 3, 2024, at 12:15 PM MST. Additionally, Jean Hu, executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, will attend the Barclays Global TMT Conference on December 12, 2024, at 11:00 AM PST. Both presentations will be available via webcast on AMD's Investor Relations website.
AMD announces El Capitan supercomputer, powered by AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, becomes the world's fastest supercomputer with a 1.742 exaflops performance score. This marks the second AMD-powered system to break the exascale barrier, following Frontier. AMD now powers 50% of the top ten fastest and 40% of the most energy-efficient supercomputers globally. The company also announced a collaboration with IBM to deploy AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud, expected in first half of 2025.
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