AMD outcomes for the third quarter of 2024 noticed its knowledge heart section income improve greater than 120% year-over-year to a report $3.5 billion. The corporate’s complete income for the third quarter was $6.8 billion.
“We delivered robust third quarter monetary outcomes with report income led by greater gross sales of EPYC and Intuition knowledge heart merchandise and strong demand for our Ryzen PC processors,” mentioned AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “Trying ahead, we see vital development alternatives throughout our knowledge heart, shopper and embedded companies pushed by the insatiable demand for extra compute.”
Regardless of AMD CFO and Treasurer Jean Hu’s assertion that the corporate is “on-track to ship report annual income for 2024 based mostly on vital development in our Information Heart and Consumer segments,” nonetheless, Wall Road analysts appeared unimpressed with the corporate’s fourth-quarter steering of round $7.5 billion in income, representing year-on-year development of twenty-two%. AMD’s inventory was down roughly 10% by the top of day Wednesday.
On the corporate’s quarterly name, Su mentioned that within the knowledge heart section, AMD believes that it gained server CPU share because of wins within the enterprise section in addition to cloud suppliers increasing their use of AMD’s EPYC CPUs in cloud infrastructure. EPYC, she mentioned, “has turn out to be the CPU of selection for the fashionable knowledge heart.” In call-outs to a lot of particular functions and prospects that EPYC CPUs assist, Su mentioned that “Meta alone has deployed greater than 1.5 million EPYC CPUs throughout their world knowledge heart fleet to energy their social media platforms.”
She added that the corporate is “constructing robust momentum with giant enterprise prospects,” and mentioning particular buyer wins with giant know-how, power, monetary companies and automotive corporations throughout the third quarter, together with Airbus, Daimler Truck, FedEx, HSBC, Siemens, Walgreens and others.
Su additionally mentioned that based mostly on its momentum and product pipelines, AMD is “very well-positioned for continued development in share good points.”
AMD can also be within the technique of bolstering its place in AI silicon and techniques, with the $4.9 billion acquisition of New Jersey-based ZT Techniques. The transaction was introduced in August and AMD executives mentioned that it stays on-track to shut within the first half of 2025. Su added that AMD has obtained optimistic suggestions from prospects as a result of the ZT acquisition will allow hyperscalers to “quickly deploy AMD AI infrastructure at scale and offers OEMs and ODMs with optimized board and module designs for a variety of differentiated enterprise options.”
Su additionally mentioned that AMD has “constructed vital momentum throughout our knowledge heart AI enterprise with deployments rising throughout an increasing set of cloud, enterprise and AI prospects.” Subsequently, AMD expects its income from knowledge heart GPUs to exceed $5 billion this 12 months; the corporate had began out 2024 offering steering of $2 billion in AI GPU income after which bumped that as much as $4.5 billion, and now to $5 billion.
When requested concerning the 2025 market, Su responded: “At a excessive degree … we really feel superb concerning the market from every little thing that we see.”
AMD did see decreases in two of its enterprise segments: Gaming revenues had been down practically 70% year-on-year, and its embedded section is within the midst of what the corporate described as a gradual restoration, with revenues of $927 million, down 25% year-over-year however up 8% sequentially.
