Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Q2 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Overall Financial Performance

  • Revenue: $5.8B, up 9% year-over-year and 7% sequentially. Growth primarily driven by Data Center and Client segments.
  • Gross Margin: 53%, improving by 340 bps year-over-year (driven by higher Data Center mix).
  • Diluted EPS: $0.69, up 19% year-over-year.
  • Operating Income: $1.3B (22% operating margin), up significantly due to scaling in Data Center.
  • Cash Flow: $593M from operations; $439M free cash flow.
  • Share Repurchases: $352M (2.3M shares). AMD holds $5.2B remaining authorization.

Segment Performance

Data Center (Record Quarter)
  • Revenue: $2.8B, up 115% year-over-year; now nearly 50% of total revenue.
  • Drivers: Strong Instinct MI300 GPU ramp; double-digit growth in EPYC CPU sales.
  • Operating Income: $743M (26% margin), up from $147M a year ago.
  • GPU Revenue: MI300 exceeded $1B in quarterly revenue for first time.
  • Cloud Momentum: Azure launched MI300X public instances; customers include Microsoft, Hugging Face.
  • EPYC Adoption: 900+ AMD-powered cloud instances (34% increase YoY). Wins at Netflix, Uber, Adobe, Boeing, Siemens, others.
  • Turin (Zen 5 EPYC): Production shipments began; broad availability expected later in 2024.
Client
  • Revenue: $1.5B, up 49% year-over-year and 9% sequentially.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the AMD Second Quarter 2024 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce to you Mitch Haws, Vice President Investor Relations. Thank you, Mitch. You may begin. Mitch Haws : Thank you, and welcome to AMD's Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results Conference call. By now you should have had the opportunity to review a copy of our earnings press release and the accompanying slides. If you have not had the chance to review these materials, they can be found on the Investor Relations page of amd.com. We will refer primarily to non-GAAP financial measures during today's call. The full non-GAAP to GAAP reconciliations are available in today's press release, and the slides posted on our website. Participants on today's conference call are Dr. Lisa Su, our Chair and Chief Executive Officer; and Jean Hu, our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. This is a live call and will be replayed via webcast on our website. Before we begin, I would like to note that Dr. Lisa Su will attend the Goldman Sachs Technology Communicopia and Technology Conference on Monday, September 9th, and Mark Papermaster, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, will attend the Deutsche Bank Technology conference on Wednesday, August

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