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posted by martyb on Saturday April 18 2015, @04:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the trying-to-turn-the-tide dept.

Two stories regarding chipmaker AMD in the news today. First, they missed their Q1 earnings target, after reporting losses of $180 million, or $0.23/share:

Revenue landed at $1.03 billion, down 26 percent on the year-ago quarter (statement) ...Non-GAAP earnings were a loss of 9 cents per share ...Wall Street was expecting a loss of 5 cents per share on revenue on $1.05 billion.

"Under the backdrop of a challenging PC environment, we are focused on improving our near-term financial results and delivering a stronger second half of the year based on completing our work to rebalance channel inventories and shipping strong new products," [said AMD chief executive Lisa Su].

Secondly, AMD is withdrawing from the high-density server business, reversing a strategy that began 3 years ago with the acquisition of SeaMicro:

AMD paid $334 million to buy SeaMicro, which developed a new type of high-density server aimed at large-scale cloud and Internet service providers ...The purchase was made under former CEO Rory Read, and has now been reversed by Lisa Su, who took over the CEO job last October ...AMD said the move is part of its effort to "simplify and sharpen" its investment focus. As a result, it is taking a charge of $75 million.

AMD still sees growth potential in the server market, but not from selling complete systems. It's returned its focus to x86 chips and to the development of its first ARM server processor, code-named Seattle.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:49AM (#172362)

    One of the duties of an engineer is to work around management incompetence to provide a superior product.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @01:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2015, @01:14PM (#172388)

    Engineers and Management suffer under the Bean Counters. They are the stifling influence here.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @02:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @02:12AM (#172677)

      Management are the bean counters. MBA = Master of Bean Accounting.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 19 2015, @12:19AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday April 19 2015, @12:19AM (#172658) Journal

    Duty? If it's for profit.. well it better pay or the corporation can have their shit.