Tuesday, October 29th 2024

AMD Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results, Revenue Up 18 Percent YoY

AMD today announced revenue for the third quarter of 2024 of $6.8 billion, gross margin of 50%, operating income of $724 million, net income of $771 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.47. On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin was 54%, operating income was $1.7 billion, net income was $1.5 billion and diluted earnings per share was $0.92.

"We delivered strong third quarter financial results with record revenue led by higher sales of EPYC and Instinct data center products and robust demand for our Ryzen PC processors," said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. "Looking forward, we see significant growth opportunities across our data center, client and embedded businesses driven by the insatiable demand for more compute."
"We are pleased with our execution in the third quarter, delivering strong year-over-year expansion in gross margin and earnings per share," said AMD EVP, CFO and Treasurer Jean Hu. "We are on-track to deliver record annual revenue for 2024 based on significant growth in our Data Center and Client segments."

Segment Summary
  • Record Data Center segment revenue of $3.5 billion was up 122% year-over-year and 25% sequentially primarily driven by the strong ramp of AMD Instinct GPU shipments and growth in AMD EPYC CPU sales.
  • Client segment revenue was $1.9 billion, up 29% year-over-year and 26% sequentially primarily driven by strong demand for "Zen 5" AMD Ryzen processors.
  • Gaming segment revenue was $462 million, down 69% year-over-year and 29% sequentially primarily due to a decrease in semi-custom revenue.
  • Embedded segment revenue was $927 million, down 25% year-over-year as customers normalized their inventory levels. On a sequential basis, revenue increased 8% as demand improved in several end markets.
Recent PR Highlights
  • At the Advancing AI 2024 event this month, AMD and strategic partners including Dell, Google Cloud, HPE, Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Supermicro and AI leaders Databricks, Essential AI, Fireworks AI, Luma AI and Reka AI unveiled a broad portfolio of solutions delivering enterprise AI at scale based on the latest AMD Instinct accelerators, EPYC CPUs, AMD networking solutions and Ryzen PRO CPUs:
    • New AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors, with record-breaking performance and energy efficiency for diverse data center needs, available in a wide range of platforms from leading OEMs and ODMs.
    • AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators, delivering leadership performance and memory capabilities for the most demanding AI workloads. AMD also shared new details on next-gen AMD Instinct accelerators planned to launch in 2025 and 2026.
    • An expanded high performance networking portfolio to maximize performance, scalability and efficiency for AI systems, with the new AMD Pensando Salina DPU and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 NIC.
    • New Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series mobile processors, powering next-gen AI PCs for the enterprise with 50+ AI TOPS and leadership performance, battery life, security and manageability features.
  • AMD continues to extend leadership AI performance, optimizations and customer adoption for AMD Instinct accelerators and AMD ROCm open software:
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure selected AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators with AMD ROCm open software to power its latest OCI Compute Supercluster designed for demanding AI workloads.
    • AMD unveiled its first results on leading AI benchmark MLPerf, revealing excellent performance for AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators advanced by the AMD ROCm software platform, on-par with NVIDIA H100.
    • AMD highlighted support for the latest Llama 3.2 release from Meta, enabling developers to build new agentic applications and personalized AI experiences on AMD accelerators and processors from cloud to edge and AI PCs.
  • AMD and ecosystem partners are enabling new AI PC platforms and capabilities:
    • In partnership with Microsoft, AMD announced that Copilot+ will be enabled on AMD CPU-powered AI PCs via a free upgrade planned to be available starting in November 2024.
    • OEM partners including Acer, HP, Lenovo and ASUS announced new systems powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series mobile processors, leveraging the leadership gaming, content creation and everyday performance of the new "Zen 5" architecture.
  • AMD expanded its embedded portfolio for a range of applications, including:
    • New AMD EPYC Embedded 8004 Series processors, designed to deliver outstanding performance and power efficiency for demanding workloads.
    • The smaller form factor, cost-optimized AMD Alveo UL3422 Accelerator Card, a fintech accelerator for ultra-low latency electronic trading applications.
    • The AMD Artix UltraScale+ XA AU7P, a cost-optimized, automotive-qualified FPGA for ADAS sensor applications and in-vehicle infotainment.
  • AMD announced an agreement to acquire ZT Systems, a leading provider of AI and general purpose compute infrastructure for the world's largest hyperscale providers, to expand the company's data center AI systems capabilities and accelerate deployment of AMD AI rack scale systems with cloud and enterprise customers. The acquisition is subject to regulatory clearance and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the first half of 2025.
  • AMD completed the acquisition of Silo AI to accelerate development and deployment of AI models on AMD hardware.
  • AMD and Intel announced the creation of an x86 ecosystem advisory group with Broadcom, Dell, Google, HPE, HP, Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat and industry luminaries Linus Torvalds and Tim Sweeney to collaborate on architectural interoperability and simplify software development.
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 fourth quarter of 2024, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $7.5 billion, plus or minus $300 million. At the mid-point of the revenue range, this represents year-over-year growth of approximately 22% and sequential growth of approximately 10%. Non-GAAP gross margin is expected to be approximately 54%.
Source: AMD
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35 Comments on AMD Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results, Revenue Up 18 Percent YoY

#26
mb194dc
AMD still trades at 200 P/E Ratio ? Absolutely mental. More so given LLMs are very likely a bubble (biggest one ever?), because there's few decent paid use cases on the front end. Or at least ones which will generate the hundreds of billions needed to pay for the hardware and power buildout. Super Micro getting absolutely destroyed today and I wouldn't be surprised if the rest go in the next few months.

Not sure what will be left after.
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#27
thesmokingman
mb194dcAMD still trades at 200 P/E Ratio ? Absolutely mental. More so given LLMs are very likely a bubble (biggest one ever?), because there's few decent paid use cases on the front end. Or at least ones which will generate the hundreds of billions needed to pay for the hardware and power buildout. Super Micro getting absolutely destroyed today and I wouldn't be surprised if the rest go in the next few months.

Not sure what will be left after.
SMCI getting destroyed for possibly being fraudsters ie cooking the books, don't conflate that.
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#28
Vya Domus
mb194dcAMD still trades at 200 P/E Ratio ? Absolutely mental.
Nvidia doesn't have a particularly great P/E ratio either, don't see anyone complaining about that. Matter of fact most tech companies near the top don't.
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#29
mb194dc
thesmokingmanSMCI getting destroyed for possibly being fraudsters ie cooking the books, don't conflate that.
It's all BS though isn't it? Loads of money going in to hardware buildout, but few decent paid use cases on the front end for any of it. The likes of Co Pilot (Clippy 2) and Gemini and terrible. So we get the likes of SMCI cooking the books as well to take advantage. Unless people are paying hundreds of billions of dollars to use LLMs, my guess is we'll see Nvidia and AMD fall by similar amounts in months to come.
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#30
thesmokingman
mb194dcIt's all BS though isn't it? Loads of money going in to hardware buildout, but few decent paid use cases on the front end for any of it. The likes of Co Pilot (Clippy 2) and Gemini and terrible. So we get the likes of SMCI cooking the books as well to take advantage. Unless people are paying hundreds of billions of dollars to use LLMs, my guess is we'll see Nvidia and AMD fall by similar amounts in months to come.
AI is at the beginning of its S curve. It takes years for emergent technology to turn a profit. Take Tesla for example, it took them 10-12 years to go positive on profits. :rolleyes:
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#31
Steevo
TheLostSwedeYet, the "investors" aren't happy, wtaf?!

Time to buy the dip, the only reason I won't is. Election, fabs, and I feel we are in for a HD2000 repeat. Once europe and or the US has fabs they can use and they get their GPU division back on track it will be the time to buy the dip.
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#32
cvaldes
Why would you buy the dip? AMD's guidance is poor.

You are better off putting money in NVDA because AMD clearly stated that they won't be raking in the big bucks anytime soon.
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#33
Vya Domus
Nvidia is No.2 in market cap, might as well buy Apple or Microsoft, companies that have been around for far longer which already survived a major tech bubble and are not going to be wrecked when the AI boom slows down.
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#34
Imsochobo
Vya DomusWhat you are saying makes no sense, both AMD and Nvidia have different products for different markets. And professional segment is a very small niche for both of these companies dwarfed by both gaming and datacenter.
I don't care about the product, I care about the Die and for AD102 it has 3 markets.

Nvidia sells the AD102 die as Datacenter with the Nvidia L40 among others.
Servers with AD102
Every vendor offers readymade datacenter and AI servers powered by AD102.

RTX 5000 Ada and RTX 6000 ada isn't huge volume but still it's a market that has a great profit margin.

So it does make perfect sense, nvidia sells their gpu in 3 markets, amd sells to gamers at low margin only.
Nvidia can afford to make a large chip cause they address a larger market with the chip, also in high margin markets meanwhile amd has only one low margin market: Gamers.. well I'd say that also barely exist now too.
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#35
Vya Domus
ImsochoboI don't care about the product, I care about the Die and for AD102 it has 3 markets.

Nvidia sells the AD102 die as Datacenter with the Nvidia L40 among others.
Who cares, Nvidia made most of their money with the likes of A100 and H100 not AD102.
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