Tuesday, November 1st 2022

AMD Reports Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced revenue for the third quarter of 2022 of $5.6 billion, gross margin of 42%, operating loss of $64 million, net income of $66 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.04. On a non-GAAP(*) basis, gross margin was 50%, operating income was $1.3 billion, net income was $1.1 billion and diluted earnings per share was $0.67.

"Third quarter results came in below our expectations due to the softening PC market and substantial inventory reduction actions across the PC supply chain," said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. "Despite the challenging macro environment, we grew revenue 29% year-over-year driven by increased sales of our data center, embedded and game console products. We are confident that our leadership product portfolio, strong balance sheet, and ongoing growth opportunities in our data center and embedded businesses position us well to navigate the current market dynamics."
Q3 2022 Financial Summary
  • Revenue of $5.6 billion increased 29% year-over-year driven by growth across the Data Center, Gaming and Embedded segments.
  • Gross margin was 42%, a decrease of 6 percentage points year-over-year, primarily due to amortization of intangible assets associated with the Xilinx acquisition. Non-GAAP gross margin was 50%, an increase of 2 percentage points year-over-year, primarily driven by higher Embedded and Data Center segment revenue. Gross margin and non-GAAP gross margin include $160 million of charges for inventory, pricing, and related reserves in the graphics and client businesses.
  • Operating loss was $64 million, compared to operating income of $948 million, or 22% of revenue, a year ago. The loss was primarily due to the amortization of intangible assets associated with the Xilinx acquisition and increased R&D investments. Non-GAAP operating income was $1.3 billion, or 23% of revenue, up from $1.1 billion or 24% a year ago primarily driven by higher revenue and gross margin partially offset by higher operating expenses.
  • Net income was $66 million compared to $923 million a year ago primarily due to the amortization of intangible assets associated with the Xilinx acquisition and increased R&D investments, partially offset by a $135 million tax benefit in the quarter. Non-GAAP net income was $1.1 billion, up from $893 million a year ago primarily driven by higher revenue and gross margin, partially offset by higher operating expenses.
  • Diluted earnings per share was $0.04 compared to $0.75 a year ago primarily due to lower net income. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.67 compared to $0.73 a year ago primarily due to lower Client segment revenue.
  • Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $5.6 billion at the end of the quarter. The company repaid the $312 million 7.50% Senior Notes that matured in August and repurchased $617 million of common stock during the quarter.
  • Cash from operations was $965 million in the quarter, compared to $849 million a year ago. Free cash flow was $842 million in the quarter compared to $764 million a year ago.
  • Goodwill and acquisition-related intangible assets associated with the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando were $49.3 billion.
Quarterly Segment Financial Summary
  • Prior period results have been conformed to the current reporting segments for comparison purposes.
  • Data Center segment revenue was $1.6 billion, up 45% year-over-year driven by strong sales of EPYC server processors. Operating income was $505 million, or 31% of revenue, compared to $308 million or 28% a year ago. The operating income and margin increases were primarily driven by higher revenue, partially offset by higher operating expenses.
  • Client segment revenue was $1.0 billion, down 40% year-over-year due to reduced processor shipments resulting from a weak PC market and a significant inventory correction across the PC supply chain. Client processor ASP increased year-over-year driven primarily by a richer mix of Ryzen desktop processor sales. Operating loss was $26 million, compared to operating income of $490 million or 29% a year ago. The decrease was primarily due to lower revenue.
  • Gaming segment revenue was $1.6 billion, up 14% year-over-year driven by higher semi-custom product sales partially offset by lower graphics revenue. Operating income was $142 million, or 9% of revenue, compared to $231 million or 16% a year ago. The decrease was primarily due to lower graphics revenue and inventory, pricing and related charges in the graphics business. Operating margin was lower primarily due to lower graphics revenue and higher operating expenses.
  • Embedded segment revenue was $1.3 billion, up 1,549% year-over-year driven primarily by the inclusion of Xilinx embedded product revenue. Operating income was $635 million, or 49% of revenue, compared to $23 million or 30% a year ago. Operating income and margin increases were primarily driven by higher revenue.
  • All Other operating loss was $1.3 billion as compared to $104 million a year ago primarily due to amortization of intangible assets largely associated with the Xilinx acquisition.
Recent PR Highlights
  • Adoption of AMD data center solutions continues to grow among key customers and partners:
    • Microsoft Azure announced the general availability (GA) of new confidential computing VMs leveraging state-of-the-art AMD security technologies offered by EPYC processors and new GPU-accelerated VMs. Additionally, Amazon Web Services announced the new memory optimized instances powered by EPYC processors.
    • AMD announced that AMD Pensando data processing units (DPUs) will be one of the first DPU solutions to support VMware vSphere 8 with Distributed Services Engine capabilities running on servers from leading vendors including Dell Technologies and HPE.
  • AMD launched the Ryzen 7000 Series processors for desktop, delivering dominant performance and leadership energy efficiency. Powered by the new "Zen 4" architecture, the Ryzen 7000 Series processors feature up to 16 cores and 32 threads and are built on an optimized, high-performance 5 nm process node. AMD also announced the new Socket AM5 motherboard.
  • AMD announced the Ryzen 7020 Series processors for mobile applications, bringing high-end performance and battery life to everyday users.
  • AMD announced a strategic collaboration with global mobility tech company ECARX to collaborate on the ECARX digital cockpit for next-generation electric vehicles, the first in-vehicle platform to be offered with AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 processors and AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs along with ECARX hardware and software.
  • AMD introduced the Ryzen Embedded V3000 Series processors, adding the high-performance "Zen 3" core to the V-Series portfolio to deliver reliable, scalable processing performance for a wide range of storage and networking system applications.
  • AMD and Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) announced the launch of ESnet6, the U.S. Department of Energy's next generation network to enhance collaborative science. AMD Alveo U280-based network accelerator cards bring powerful adaptive computing to ESnet6, enabling deep insights, rapid detection and correction of problems, and continuous innovation across the network.
  • AMD and Samsung announced the second generation of its SmartSSD, powered by AMD Versal Adaptive SoCs, enabling efficient data processing for the data center by integrating the compute and storage functions.
  • AMD announced its 27th annual Corporate Responsibility Report, demonstrating its commitment to advancing computing to help solve the world's most important challenges and detailing its progress toward environmental, social and governance goals.
Current Outlook
AMD's outlook statements are based on current expectations. The following statements are forward-looking and actual results could differ materially depending on market conditions and the factors set forth under "Cautionary Statement" below. AMD's fourth quarter is a 14-week quarter.

For the fourth quarter of 2022, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $5.5 billion, plus or minus $300 million, an increase of approximately 14% year-over-year and flat sequentially. Year-over-year and sequentially, the Embedded and Data Center segments are expected to grow. AMD expects non-GAAP gross margin to be approximately 51% in the fourth quarter of 2022.

For the full year 2022, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $23.5 billion, plus or minus $300 million, an increase of approximately 43% over 2021 led by growth in the Embedded and Data Center segments. AMD expects non-GAAP gross margin to be approximately 52% for 2022.
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43 Comments on AMD Reports Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

#1
GunShot
Spin it and SPIN IT good, Su. :laugh:

First:
operating loss of $64 million.
then the truth, huh, Su:
Third quarter results came in below our expectations
Buuut, what, Su:
We are confident that our leadership product portfolio
Wait, now, were you also (over) confident on your early forecast for today's earnings report, Su?! Wt... :laugh:
Client segment revenue was $1.0 billion, down 40% year-over-year due to reduced processor shipments resulting from a weak PC market
Well, after the election, many things will change this forecast... again, guaranteed!
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#2
Icon Charlie
GunShotSpin it and SPIN IT good, Su. :laugh:

First:



then the truth, huh, Su:



Buuut, what, Su:



Wait, now, were you also (over) confident on your early forecast for today's earnings report, Su?! Wt... :laugh:




Well, after the election, many things will change this forecast... again, guaranteed!
Yea know I agree with your comments :peace:
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#3
medi01
btarunrGaming segment revenue was $1.6 billion
So, NV's last published quarter revenue was 2.04 billion.
Did AMD specify which part of that $1.6 billion was graphics?
GunShotSpin it and SPIN IT good, Su. :laugh:
AMD's Q2 was highest ever single quarter by the company.
Even in Q3, their revenue is record high and margin beats NV's (which dropped it).
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#4
Bwaze
I really don't understand AMD - they really limited their portfolio once they were no. 1 choice - all of a sudden no low and midrange processors, and instead of larger market share they went for high profits with raising prices on remaining higher end products.

Are they really so constrained in TSMC that this was all they could get? They really painted themselves in a small corner, and all the gains of years of supremacy of Ryzen over Intel products have brought them very little, and could be reversed with Intel just on par.
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#5
prtskg
GunShotSpin it and SPIN it good, Su.
GAAP results show a loss of $64M and non GAAP a profit of $1264M. I think she's right that loss is primarily due to amortization of Xilinx non-tangible assets. Revenue is down in only client and that's expected. AMD doesn't have clout with OEMs like Intel has.
BwazeI really don't understand AMD - they really limited their portfolio once they were no. 1 choice - all of a sudden no low and midrange processors, and instead of larger market share they went for high profits with raising prices on remaining higher end products.

Are they really so constrained in TSMC that this was all they could get? They really painted themselves in a small corner, and all the gains of years of supremacy of Ryzen over Intel products have brought them very little, and could be reversed with Intel just on par.
AMD was substrate limited till last quarter. That's not due to TSMC. It's a supply chain problem. So they're focusing in areas with higher return. Things could change now due to this slump.
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#6
Bwaze
prtskgAMD was substrate limited till last quarter. That's not due to TSMC. It's a supply chain problem. So they're focusing in areas with higher return. Things could change now due to this slump.
Yeah, but now AMD faces stiff competition from Intel - mainly due to not having a lower end and extremely high platform costs. And it doesn't help that their newest generation can't beat Intel's last generation in gaming, or their own 5800X3D...

And right now it doesn't really matter what they do or have. We're just in the opening stages of the recession, what the PC industry is now feeling was just return to normal from high demand due to lockdowns. We haven't seen the results of a real market slowdown.

Also, TSMC is really vulnerable right now - almost all high end western products come from there, and embargoing China from ordering such products will surely endanger it, I predict disruptions - either from limiting Chinese exports to Taiwan or entire West, or maybe even from a direct attack (cyber or physical).
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#7
Gica
With the 5000 series, they made fun of home made customers. For a year, the cheapest processor was not cheaper than 300 euros, below this threshold offering only old variants, the base being ... !!!... 1600AF. The cheaper variants of Zen 3 appeared only in 2022, too late in front of an intel that flooded the area with each generation launched.
A cold shower doesn't hurt them.
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#8
Wirko
The dark side of chiplets is that you can't make cheap processors. I'm wondering why AMD doesn't launch monolithic APU earlier in the life cycle in each generation of Zen.
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#9
ARF
WirkoThe dark side of chiplets is that you can't make cheap processors. I'm wondering why AMD doesn't launch monolithic APU earlier in the life cycle in each generation of Zen.
It's AMD's laziness to produce different chiplets. There is only one CPU cores chiplet that serves everything - from the low-end 6-core to the highest end Threadripper and EPYC supercomputer SKUs.
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#10
medi01
WirkoThe dark side of chiplets is that you can't make cheap processors
Huh.
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#11
Wirko
ARFIt's AMD's laziness to produce different chiplets. There is only one CPU cores chiplet that serves everything - from the low-end 6-core to the highest end Threadripper and EPYC supercomputer SKUs.
I agree with that too. I don't understand why there's just one variant of silicon, having 10C and 6C dies for example would serve AMD well, in all market segments. But there are some cost calculations behind this laziness, that's for sure.

I suppose it only costs a couple tens of millions of $ to develop an additional smaller variant (design, verification, masks etc). Maybe I'm totally wrong. It would be nice if we could have some reliable data.
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#12
Bomby569
they certainly made some bad decisions recently, especially with pricing, they could have crushed Intel and instead made them look very appealing.
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#13
prtskg
Bomby569they certainly made some bad decisions recently, especially with pricing, they could have crushed Intel and instead made them look very appealing.
AMD is still supply constrained in Epyc processors. I doubt they would fight Intel with price before their supply situation with Epyc CPUs improve. They've mentioned that next quarter supply of datacentre and server processors should improve. So I doubt there's going to be any price war before 2023.
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#14
ARF
WirkoI agree with that too. I don't understand why there's just one variant of silicon, having 10C and 6C dies for example would serve AMD well, in all market segments. But there are some cost calculations behind this laziness, that's for sure.

I suppose it only costs a couple tens of millions of $ to develop an additional smaller variant (design, verification, masks etc). Maybe I'm totally wrong. It would be nice if we could have some reliable data.
I guess that can make super tiny dual-core chiplets, rather than staying with an octo-core chiplet which they need to bin.
With a dual-core chiplet they will be able to offer:
Ryzen dual-core with 1 chiplet;
Ryzen quad-core with 2 chiplets;
Ryzen hexa-core with 3 chiplets.
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#15
usiname
WirkoI suppose it only costs a couple tens of millions of $ to develop an additional smaller variant (design, verification, masks etc). Maybe I'm totally wrong. It would be nice if we could have some reliable data.
You are totally wrong
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#16
Denver
usinameYou are totally wrong
Yes, the cost is on the order of hundreds of millions in advanced manufacturing processes like 5nm...
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#17
ARF
DenverYes, the cost is on the order of hundreds of millions in advanced manufacturing processes like 5nm...
Yes, someone from the top management with that annual salary will have to be a bit generous for the greater good of the customers :D
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#18
mb194dc
How do they end up with earnings like that with revenue up 29% from last year? Seems odd to me.

Not surprised about the weak client revenue. Think a lot of tech companies are in for a huge reality check over the next year as bust follows the boom that happened during Covid.
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#19
Wirko
DenverYes, the cost is on the order of hundreds of millions in advanced manufacturing processes like 5nm...
Yes, but I said an additional smaller variant. Like the Alder Lake 6+0 when you already have 8+8 running in your labs.
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#20
dyonoctis
ARFI guess that can make super tiny dual-core chiplets, rather than staying with an octo-core chiplet which they need to bin.
With a dual-core chiplet they will be able to offer:
Ryzen dual-core with 1 chiplet;
Ryzen quad-core with 2 chiplets;
Ryzen hexa-core with 3 chiplets.
You'll notice something interesting if you look at Milan: yes, they are using single core chiplets with Epyc. Some SKUs are also using 2 or 4 cores chiplets. So AMD is already making lower core count chiplets, they just decided to not use them with Ryzen.

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#21
Bwaze
mb194dcHow do they end up with earnings like that with revenue up 29% from last year? Seems odd to me.

Not surprised about the weak client revenue. Think a lot of tech companies are in for a huge reality check over the next year as bust follows the boom that happened during Covid.
Perhaps tax evasion? Huge revenue, but no earnings, nothing to declare...

Pardon, "Tax optimization".
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#22
AnotherReader
usinameYou are totally wrong
Not as wrong as you might think. Given that the nodes are new, people who know the exact costs are bound by NDAs. However, there have been some estimates. According to SemiAnalysis,
We have worked with multiple chip startups who have created leading edge chips on TSMC 7nm $50M to $75M. This cost includes their entire range of software, design, and tape out costs. These costs will vary wildly depending on the type of chip made.
Another article claims that 5nm mask sets cost around $10-15 million. For a 6 core chiplet which will share a lot of its design costs with the bigger chiplet, the costs are likely to be much lower than you might think.
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#23
Wirko
dyonoctisFrom what I understand, for the desktop AMD is using the same die for epyc/threadripper/ryzen. But you'll notice something interesting if you look at Milan: yes, they are using single core chiplets with Epyc. Some SKUs are also using 2 or 4 cores chiplets. So AMD is already making lower core count chiplets, they just decided to not use them with Ryzen.

These Epycs have 8-core chiplets with one core active, but the whole L3 available. They have F in the model name.
AnotherReaderAnother article claims that 5nm mask sets cost around $10-15 million. For a 6 core chiplet which will share a lot of its design costs with the bigger chiplet, the costs are likely to be much lower than you might think.
Also, masks must be repaired or re-made (I don't know how often) because UV light does damage to them. That reduces the additional cost of making a different mask set.
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#24
dyonoctis
WirkoThese Epycs have 8-core chiplets with one core active, but the whole L3 available. They have F in the model name.
Yhea, my guess is that AMD is trying to keep the manufacturing/ logistic simpler. You can't have low end SKUs taking up allocation that could be used for Epyc/consoles/GPUs/Threadripper. (And zen 3 TR took a loooong time to launch)
I'm under the impression that for AMD, the "low end" is just old gen. Zen 2 is not EOL.
AMD Ryzen 7000 mobile series now confirmed to feature Zen4, Zen3 and Zen2 CPUs - VideoCardz.com
Meanwhile intel is making Alder lake Celeron, but they don't have to compete with Apple/nvidia/qualcomm etc... For allocation. Owning your own fabs do have benefits after all.
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