Research Outline

Company Overview - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Goals

To get a company overview on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in order to understand what they do, their market share, and their revenue.

Early Findings

  • This is the official company website.
  • From their company vision page: "Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD journey began with dozens of employees focused on leading-edge semiconductor products. From those modest beginnings, AMD has grown into a global company of 10,000 people, achieving many important industry firsts along the way. AMD today develops high-performance computing and visualization products to solve some of the world’s toughest and most interesting challenges. There has never been a better time to be in the semiconductor industry, and we are ready to tackle the next 50 years with high-performance computing and graphics solutions that transform all of our lives."
  • Link to the Q2 2019 earnings call. There is a clickable webcast that can be accessed here.
  • AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) revenue for the second quarter of 2019 of $1.53 billion, operating income of $59 million, net income of $35 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.03. On a non-GAAP(*) basis, operating income was $111 million, net income was $92 million and diluted earnings per share was $0.08.
  • This is a link to their earnings table for second quarter 2019 financial results.
  • This is a link to a slide presentation for second quarter 2019 financial results.
  • AMD makes personal computer microprocessors. They also make flash memory, integrated circuits for networking devices, and programmable logic devices. AMD reports that it has sold over 100 million x86 (Windows-compatible) microprocessors. Its Athlon (formerly called the "K7") microprocessor, delivered in mid-1999, was the first to support a 200 MHz bus. In March 2000, AMD announced the first 1 gigahertz PC microprocessor in a new version of the Athlon.
  • As of September 11th, 2019 shares of the chipmaker had lost 5.85% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 2.17% and the S&P 500's gain of 2.25% in that time.
  • "AMD used to be the also-ran of the CPU and GPU markets, lagging the dominant leaders Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs. Yet that's beginning to change. After taking the helm in 2014, AMD CEO Lisa Su mapped out a way forward to catch up to these bigger rivals. She decided to skip the 10-nanometer node on AMD's portfolio of chips and go straight ahead to 7-nanometer. That decision, made a few years ago, has catapulted AMD ahead of Intel this year in the race to 7-nanometer CPUs for both PCs, desktops, and data centers."
  • In addition to this public search, we scanned our proprietary research database of over 1 million sources and were unable to find any specific research reports that address the stated goals.

Summation Of The Availability Of Information Relevant To The Goals

  • In the initial hour of research, we were able to provide a company overview of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and we provided the most recent revenue provided in the second quarter of 2019, as well as other financial data from that time. We also provided links to easily access the revenue from past years.
  • In the initial hour of research we did not have time to provide AMD's market share, but that is because the entire market size of where AMD lives would have to be determined first. Please select one or more of the options provided in the proposed scoping section below.