Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) reported Tuesday after the market close with fourth-quarter results that came in line with expectations, with strong Data Center revenue helping to offset weakness in the Embedded and Gaming segments. The chipmaker guided its first-quarter revenue above the consensus. The stock fell in after-hours trading.
AMD’s Key Numbers: Santa Clara, California-based AMD reported fourth-quarter non-GAAP earnings per share of 77 cents per share on revenue of $6.17 billion.
Here’s how the results compare with the Street estimates and prior year results:
| Q4’23 Actuals | Q4’23 Consensus* | Q4’23 Guidance | Q4’22 | Q3’23 | Y-o-Y Change | Q-o-Q Change | |
| Revenue | $6.17B | $6.12B | $6.1B +/- $300 M | $5.6B | $5.8B | ||
| Non-GAAP EPS | 77 cents | 77 cents | N/A | 69 cents | 70 cents | ||
| Non-GAAP gross margin | 51% | N/A | 55.1% | 51% | 51% |
* according to Benzinga Pro data
CEO Lisa Su lauded the company’s quarterly performance. “We finished 2023 strong, with sequential and year-over-year revenue and earnings growth driven by record quarterly AMD Instinct GPU and EPYC CPU sales and higher AMD Ryzen processor sales,” she said.
“Demand for our high-performance data center product portfolio continues to accelerate, positioning us well to deliver strong annual growth in what is an incredibly exciting time as AI re-shapes virtually every part of the computing market.”
AMD’s outperformance comes close on the heels of peer Peer Intel Corp.’s (NASDAQ:INTC) fourth-quarter results that sent the latter’s shares down by about 12%,
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AMD’s Segment Results: In line with expectations, AMD’s Data Center business reported solid performance, thanks to solid performance of the fourth-gen EPYC server processor sales and AMD Instinct GPUs.
| Q4’23 Revenue | Y-o-Y Change | Q-o-Q Change | % Contribution | |
| Data Center | $2.3B | +38% | +43% | 37.2% |
| Client | $1.5B | +62% | -25% | 25.3% |
| Gaming | $1.4B | -17% | -9% | 22.7% |
| Embedded | $1.1B | -24% | -15% | 17.8% |
KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst John Vinh had anticipated improving Genoa processor demand despite the weakness seen in traditional servers. Citing checks, the analyst said MI300X AI accelerator chips were seeing positive inflection in customer traction.
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