AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced revenue for the second quarter of 2024 of $5.8 billion, gross margin of 49%, operating income of $269 million, net income of $265 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.16. On a non-GAAP(*) basis, gross margin was 53%, operating income was $1.3 billion, net income was $1.1 billion and diluted earnings per share was $0.69.

"We delivered strong revenue and earnings growth in the second quarter driven by record Data Center segment revenue," said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. "Our AI business continued accelerating and we are well positioned to deliver strong revenue growth in the second half of the year led by demand for Instinct, EPYC and Ryzen processors. The rapid advances in generative AI are driving demand for more compute in every market, creating significant growth opportunities as we deliver leadership AI solutions across our business.""AMD executed well in the second quarter, with revenue above the midpoint of our guidance driven by strong growth in the Data Center and Client segments," said AMD EVP, CFO and Treasurer Jean Hu. "In addition, we expanded gross margin and delivered solid earnings growth, while increasing our strategic AI investments to build the foundation for future growth."

Segment Summary

• Record Data Center segment revenue of $2.8 billion was up 115% year-over-year primarily driven by the steep ramp of AMD Instinct GPU shipments, and strong growth in 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPU sales. Revenue increased 21% sequentially primarily driven by the strong ramp of AMD Instinct GPU shipments.
• Client segment revenue was $1.5 billion, up 49% year-over-year and 9% sequentially primarily driven by sales of AMD Ryzen processors.
• Gaming segment revenue was $648 million, down 59% year-over-year and 30% sequentially primarily due to a decrease in semi-custom revenue.
• Embedded segment revenue was $861 million, down 41% year-over-year as customers continued to normalize their inventory levels. Revenue increased 2% sequentially.

Recent PR Highlights

• AMD expanded its leadership end-to-end AI solutions portfolio with new CPUs, GPUs, NPUs and software offerings:
  • At Computex 2024, AMD unveiled an expanded AMD Instinct accelerator roadmap, bringing an annual cadence of leadership AI performance and memory capabilities. The roadmap includes the new AMD Instinct MI325X accelerator, planned to be available in Q4 2024, with leadership memory capacity and compute performance. The next generation AMD CDNA 4 architecture, planned for 2025, is expected to bring up to a 35x increase in AI inference performance compared to AMD Instinct accelerators based on AMD CDNA 3.
  • AMD announced the AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors, the company's third generation processor for AI PCs, with industry-leading 50 TOPs of AI processing power for Windows Copilot+ PCs. OEMs including Acer, ASUS, HP, Lenovo and MSI unveiled new devices powered by the lineup.
  • AMD and industry leaders announced the Ultra Accelerator Link promoter group which will leverage AMD Infinity Fabric technology to advance open standards-based AI networking infrastructure systems.
  • Cloud providers showcased offerings powered by AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators, with Microsoft announcing the general availability of new Azure ND MI300X V5 instances, which provide leading price/performance for GPT workloads.
  • AMD launched the Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU for high-performance AI workstations and expanded AMD ROCm 6.1.3 software support to enhance AI development and deployment with select AMD Radeon desktop GPUs.
• AMD is the partner of choice for many of the most demanding enterprise and HPC workloads:
  • AMD previewed 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, codenamed "Turin," powered by the new "Zen 5" core architecture and planned to be available in 2H 2024.
  • Oracle announced the HeatWave GenAI solution powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, enabling customers to bring the power of generative AI to their enterprise data without requiring AI expertise.
  • AMD announced the AMD EPYC 4004 Series processors, a new cost-optimized offering that delivers enterprise-class features and leadership performance for small and medium businesses.
  • The latest Top500 List ranked the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab - powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs - the fastest supercomputer in the world for the third year in a row. The list also included three new systems powered by the AMD Instinct MI300A APU at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, including the El Capitan Early Delivery System.
• AMD launched new client and graphics offerings, building on its expansive PC portfolio for commercial, consumer and enthusiast users:
  • AMD announced the new AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors based on the "Zen 5" architecture, delivering leadership performance in gaming, productivity and content creation.
  • AMD unveiled the AMD Ryzen PRO 8040 Series and 8000 Series mobile and desktop processors with cutting-edge performance, manageability and security features for today's enterprises.
• Customers across a broad set of markets are leveraging AMD embedded solutions to power computing and AI at the edge:
  • Sun Singapore announced that it is using AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices to power its large network of AI-based smart parking services, accelerating video analytics and real-time inferencing.
  • Optiver announced that it is using a broad range of AMD high-performance compute engines, including AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Solarflare ethernet adapters, Virtex FPGAs and Alveo accelerators to power its data center infrastructure, unlocking trading performance and efficiency across more than 100 financial markets.

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.

For the third quarter of 2024, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $6.7 billion, plus or minus $300 million. At the mid-point of the revenue range, this represents year-over-year growth of approximately 16% and sequential growth of approximately 15%. Non-GAAP gross margin is expected to be approximately 53.5%.