Tuesday, May 21st 2019

AMD Takes a Bigger Revenue Hit than Microsoft from Huawei Ban: Goldman Sachs

The trade ban imposed on Chinese tech giant Huawei by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and ratified through an Executive Order by President Donald Trump, is cutting both ways. Not only are U.S. entities banned from importing products and services from Huawei, but also engaging in trade with them (i.e. selling to them). U.S. tech firms stare at a $11 billion revenue loss by early estimates. Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs compiled a list of companies impacted by the ban, and the extent of their revenue loss. It turns out that AMD isn't a small player, and in fact, stands to lose more revenue in absolute terms than even Microsoft. It earns RMB 268 million (USD $38.79 million) from Huawei, compared to Microsoft's RMB 198 million ($28.66 million). Intel's revenue loss is a little over double that of AMD at RMB 589 million ($84 million), despite its market-share dominance.

That's not all, AMD's exposure is higher than that of Intel, since sales to Huawei make up a greater percentage of AMD's revenues than it does Intel's. AMD exports not just client-segment products such as Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics, but possibly also EPYC enterprise processors for Huawei's server and SMB product businesses. NVIDIA is affected to a far lesser extent than Intel, AMD, and Microsoft. Qualcomm-Broadcom take the biggest hit in absolute revenue terms at RMB 3.5 billion ($508 million), even if their exposure isn't the highest. The duo export SoCs and cellular modems to Huawei, both as bare-metal and licenses. Storage hardware makers aren't far behind, with the likes of Micron, Seagate, and Western Digital taking big hits. Micron exports DRAM and SSDs, while Seagate and WDC export hard drives.
Source: Reuters
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33 Comments on AMD Takes a Bigger Revenue Hit than Microsoft from Huawei Ban: Goldman Sachs

#26
R-T-B
SoNic67Please China, give me cheap stuff, I am willing to give you evertying I don't care about, like my privacy and even freedom.
Help, my smartphone was cheap but now it has enslaved me!
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#27
SoNic67
R-T-BHelp, my smartphone was cheap but now it has enslaved me!
The phone is indispensabil to access the mind affecting drug that is "social media". :laugh:
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#28
bug
SoNic67The phone is indispensabil to access the mind affecting drug that is "social media". :laugh:
It actually isn't. It's the most convenient access gateway because it's always with you. But it's not the only one.
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#29
nemesis.ie
I think the comment was meant to be a bit tongue in cheek hence the <laugh> at the end. ;)

I have no doubt a fair majority of folks spend most/all of their social media time on their phones. So in the sense of data gathering for said media companies, it effectively is indispensable as the usage, and their revenues would plummet if people didn't have phones to connect with. :)
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#30
SoNic67
Google would go bankrupt if I stop using my Android phone
:D:laugh:
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#31
Kinestron
*shrug. Looking at my AMD stock over the past months, this is equivalent of them announcing their best quarter yet.
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