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AMD has officially posted their financials for Q4 2015 and the full year results for 2015. In 2015, AMD has faced a difficult time financially due to the shrinking PC market which resulted in a 10% decline in quarterly revenue and an overall 28% decline in full year revenue for 2015. The Sunnyvale, California based company reported a revenue of $3.99 Billion in 2015, down from $5.50 Billion in 2014.
AMD Posts Financial Report For Full Year and Q4 2015
AMD Q4 2015 Financial Results:
Since it is end of the year, AMD is posting both their quarterly and full year financial reports, talking the overall performance of the company in 2015. In Q4 2015 specifically, AMD's revenue decline 10% compared to the last quarter and now stands at $958 million compared to $1.06 billion in the last quarter. Talking on performance of their businesses, AMD's computing and graphics segment saw an 11% increase in Q4 with a reported revenue of $470 million as AMD shipped more high-end notebook processors, most notably their Carrizo based APUs and FX processors. On the other hand, the Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom side of business didn't do as well as the graphics business and posted a revenue of $488 million which is a 23% decline over the last quarter.
- Revenue of $958 million, down 10% sequentially and 23% year-over-year.
- Gross margin of 30%, up 7 percentage points sequentially.
- Operating loss of $49 million, compared to an operating loss of $158 million in Q3 2015 and non-GAAP operating loss of $39 million, compared to non-GAAP operating loss of $97 million in Q3 2015.
- Net loss of $102 million, loss per share of $0.13, compared to a net loss of $197 million, loss per share of $0.25 in Q3 2015 and non-GAAP net loss of $79 million, loss per share of $0.10, compared to non-GAAP net loss of $136 million, loss per share of $0.17 in Q3 2015.
Q4 2015 Commentary:
Revenue was $958 million, down 10% sequentially. Computing and Graphics segment revenue was up 11% from Q3 2015, primarily due to higher notebook processor sales. Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segment revenue was down 23% sequentially, primarily due to seasonally lower semi-custom SoC sales. via AMD
During the quarter, AMD made some pretty interesting announcements, particularly, the most interesting was their Polaris GPU announcements which were previewed just recently and further demoed at CES '16. Based on the 14nm architecture, the Polaris GPUs will leverage AMD's performance in both consumer and enterprise markets with new Radeon and FirePro solutions. The Polaris GPUs are based on the 14nm FinFET process from GlobalFoundries and feature up to 2x performance per watt compared to previous generation GCN cores.
Further announcements include the Radeon R9 380X graphics card which was the first, fully enabled Tonga based graphics card for the consumer market. AMD also released a totally revised version of their Crimson driver under the Radeon Software brand which is being handled by the Radeon Technologies Group led by Raja Koduri. The group also announced the Boltzmann Initiative and GPUOpen platform for enterprise users and developers. The ARM based Opteron A1100 "Seattle" SOCs and AMD R-Series embedded solutions are also part of the products launched by AMD in Q4 2015.
AMD 2015 Full Year Results:
Talking about the entire year, AMD posted a revenue of $3.99 Billion which is a 28% decline over $.5.51 that was posted in 2014. AMD posted a $481 million operating loss in 2015 compared to $155 million in 2014. If we look at the yearly performance of AMD's buisness segments, their computing and graphics segment was down 42% from 2014 due to lower client processors sales and the Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segment was down 8% from where it stood in 2014.
“AMD closed 2015 with solid execution fueled by the second straight quarter of double-digit percentage revenue growth in our Computing and Graphics segment and record annual semicustom unit shipments,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “While 2015 was challenging from a financial perspective, key R&D investments and a sharpened focus on innovation position us well to deliver great products, improved financial results and share gains in 2016.” via AMD
- AMD revenue of $3.99 billion, down 28% year-over-year.
- Gross margin of 27%, down 6 percentage points year-over-year and non-GAAP gross margin of 28%, down 7 percentage points year-over-year.
- Operating loss of $481 million and non-GAAP operating loss of $253 million, compared to GAAP operating loss of $155 million and non-GAAP operating income of $316 million in 2014.
- Net loss of $660 million, loss per share of $0.84 and non-GAAP net loss of $419 million, non-GAAP loss per share of $0.54, compared to GAAP net loss of $403 million, loss per share of $0.53 and non-GAAP net income of $132 million, non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.16 in 2014.
2015 Commentary:
Revenue was $3.99 billion, down 28% from 2014. Computing and Graphics segment revenue was down 42% from 2014, primarily due to lower client processor sales. Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segment revenue was down 8% from 2014, primarily due to lower server and embedded revenue and lower game console royalties, partially offset by our highest semicustom SoC sales ever recorded. via AMD
Moving forward, AMD expects to see a decline of 14% in Q1 2016 compared to Q4 2015 based on their 13 week quarter analysis. AMD states that this decline will be mainly due to game console seasonality and an cautious macro environment in China. However, for the entire year of 2016, AMD expects to see a revenue growth (year-over-year) which will be led by Polaris graphics and Zen CPU architectures driving next gen of FirePro GPUs and Opteron CPUs. AMD will be shipping Zen first in high-performance desktop PCs and is on its way to sample in 2016 as scheduled in the form of the Summit Ridge family that will be fully supported on the latest AM4 platform later this year.
The Zen based server CPUs will re-establish AMD's presence in the datacenter market which has remained dominant by Intel for several years now. AMD plans to hit them back on all fronts with Zen based products in 2017 while Polaris will not just be a consumer-side graphics chip but also aim the HPC and datacenter markets moving forward. 2016 will mark as an important year for AMD as they have several new chips planned for the market that will deliver much better performance increases compared to their previous generation offerings with further focus on efficiency.
