Profit levels are where Revenue levels used to be. The Ryzen continues unabated.
I choose to think this is more collateral damage from raptor lake.Dell and AMD announced that AMD Ryzen AI PRO processors will power new Dell Pro notebook and desktop PCs, bringing exceptional battery life, on-device AI, Copilot+ experiences and dependable productivity to enterprise users. For the first time, Dell will offer a full portfolio of commercial PCs based on Ryzen processors, marking a significant milestone in the companies' collaboration.
Market doesn't care about incremental growth, since AMD isn't growing like Nvidia was in AI, down it goes lol
In the call, Lisa basically said that H1 2025 is going to be flat for DC GPU and H2 will significant growth.Yeah, I think this is more about Q1 projections than Q4 performance as AMD met/slightly exceeded Q4 expectations. It seems investors keep wanting AMD to have an NV moment where the revenue just does a crazy jump quarter after quarter, but AMD's growth as the follower in the segment as been more incremental in comparison. I couldn't listen to the call so it will be interesting to read the discussion around DC GPU revenue going forward. It will also be interesting to see NV's projections as it had started to show a plateauing in revenue as well in the 2H of the year.
In the call, Lisa basically said that H1 2025 is going to be flat for DC GPU and H2 will significant growth.
She implies companies are waiting for MI350 which will ramp mid year.
In the call, Lisa basically said that H1 2025 is going to be flat for DC GPU and H2 will significant growth.
She implies companies are waiting for MI350 which will ramp mid year.
And then the big news is on the MI350 series. So we had previously stated that we thought we would launch that in the second half of the year. And frankly, that bring-up has come up better than we expected, and there is very strong customer demand for that. So we are actually going to pull that production ramp into the middle of the year, which improves our relative competitiveness.
That doesn't sound bad to me at least, lol.
There is also an elephant in the room - which is that AMD can't get enough (if any) HBM3e for Mi325x.
Samsung and I believe also Micron have delays. AMD needs 12-high stacks of HBM3e, which is even more rate than HBM3e 8-high. for Mi325. There was a news story yesterday that Samsung just past NVidia qualification for HBM3e 8-high, so it is unlikely that Samsung is shipping any 12-high stacks.
Maybe I am reading too much into this, but I have a feeling that AMD has additional customers for Mi350. And / or bigger deployments with existing ones.
AMD has been working with Samsung to qualify HBM3e memory for a while now. Not positive that it's ready (they did launch so I assume it's ready) and I may be misremembering, but I think AMD wasn't trying to push as fast of clocks as NV and so was having an easier time getting it qualified.
That would certainly be good news. But now with Mi350 being pulled in, the window for Mi325 likely narrowed. A bit of a pickle for AMD in near term, but longer term, AMD may more than make up for it with faster adoption of Mi350
Here are some stats on client in Q4:
Intel Q3 to Q4:
Revenue: $7.3 -> $8.0
Market share: 79.3% -> 77.7%
AMD Q3 to Q4
Revenue: $1.9 -> $2.3
Market share: 20.7% -> 22.3%
Now, Intel stated that it sold meaningfully less in Q4 than in Q3 (say 5%) and then stuffed additional 9% into the channel. So than, what was sold through by Intel was $7 billion. In comparison, Lisa said sell through was excellent. Adjusting the numbers to only what sold through
Intel Q3 to Q4:
Revenue: $7.3 -> $7.0
Market share: 79.3% -> 75.3%
AMD Q3 to Q4
Revenue: $1.9 -> $2.3
Market share: 20.7% -> 24.7%
In other words, AMD may have gained 4% in client in a single quarter.
For client they are just back where they were 30 months ago, that s the graph from Ian Cutress, one has to wonder what happened in Q3 2022 - Q2 2023 despite launching Zen 4, they had a set back even for servers despite a superior offering.
For client they are just back where they were 30 months ago, that s the graph from Ian Cutress, one has to wonder what happened in Q3 2022 - Q2 2023 despite launching Zen 4, they had a set back even for servers despite a superior offering.
When AMD has more than 50% of the markets where they compete with Intel, that will be when Intel is the underdog.I remember hating Dell with a passion because they wouldn't make AMD K6-2/3 and Athlon systems. If I were a noob again, I might gravitate towards Intel(under dog), and that gives me conflicting feelings.
Yay, I am due for a new laptop at work in the spring this year, we are using Dell only, not sure why but gut feeling tells me the AMD skus will arrive just after I get assigned another Intel furnace...What jumped out at me is Dell...ummm no that's not right, Hell, yes, Hell froze over.