Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Q3 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Overall Performance

  • Revenue reached a record $6.8B, up 18% year-over-year (YoY) and 17% sequentially. Growth was driven primarily by Data Center and Client segments, offset by Gaming and Embedded softness.
  • Gross margin expanded to 54%, up 2.5 percentage points YoY due to strong Data Center mix.
  • Diluted EPS rose 31% YoY to $0.92.
  • Data Center revenue surpassed 50% of total company revenue for the first time.

Segment Performance

Data Center

  • Revenue hit a record $3.5B, up 122% YoY and 25% sequentially.
  • Growth driven by:
    • Strong adoption of EPYC CPUs across Enterprise and Cloud.
    • Significant ramp of Instinct MI300X GPUs and strong customer traction (Microsoft, Meta, Oracle Cloud).
  • Operating income grew to $1B, up from $306M YoY.
  • AI product momentum:
    • MI300X widely deployed for inference; Meta uses MI300X exclusively for live Llama 405B model traffic.
    • ROCm software stack significantly improved; MI300X inference performance up 2.4x since launch.
    • 2024 Data Center GPU revenue outlook raised from >$4.5B to >$5B (more than doubling from initial $2B expectation).
    • MI325X shipping this quarter; MI350 series launches 2H 2025; MI400 planned for 2026.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the AMD Third Quarter 2024 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions]. And as a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce you, Mitch Haws, Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you, Mitch. You may begin. Mitch Haws: Thank you, and welcome to AMD's third 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 Forrest Norrod, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Business Solutions, will attend the UBS Annual Technology Conference on Tuesday, December 3, and Jean Hu will attend the Barclays Global TMT Conference on Thursday, December 12. Today's discussion

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