Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Q4 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Key Highlights

  • 2020 revenue reached a record 9.76 billion dollars, up 45 percent compared to 2019.
  • Full-year gross margin rose to 45 percent, up 190 basis points year-over-year.
  • Full-year net income grew 108 percent to 1.58 billion dollars.
  • Q4 revenue was 3.24 billion dollars, up 53 percent year-over-year and 16 percent sequentially.
  • Q4 net income was 636 million dollars, up 66 percent year-over-year.
  • Strong momentum across all major product lines, including Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, EPYC server processors and semi-custom console SoCs.

Segment Performance

Computing and Graphics (Q4)

  • Revenue of 1.96 billion dollars, up 18 percent year-over-year.
  • Strong double-digit growth in desktop and mobile CPUs driven by Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 4000 product families.
  • Record mobile processor unit shipments for both Q4 and full year.
  • Graphics revenue was down year-over-year but up sequentially due to strong demand for Radeon 6000 GPUs.

Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom (Q4)

  • Revenue of 1.28 billion dollars, up 176 percent year-over-year.
  • Semi-custom SoC sales (Sony and Microsoft consoles) significantly elevated; ramping faster than previous console cycle.
  • Record server processor revenue; cloud and enterprise adoption continued to accelerate.
  • 28 new cloud instances launched in Q4 alone.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the AMD Fourth Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to your host, Ruth Cotter, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Human Resources and Investor Relations. Ruth, please go ahead. Ruth Cotter: Thank you, and welcome to AMD's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results Conference Call. By now, you should have had the opportunity to review a copy of our earnings press release and accompanying the slideware. If you have not reviewed these documents yet, they can be found on the Investor Relations page of amd.com. Participants on today's conference call are Dr. Lisa Su, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Devinder Kumar, 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 on the second of March, Mark Papermaster, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Technology and Engineering, will attend the Morgan Stanley TMT conference. In addition, our first quarter 2021 quiet time is expected to begin at the close of business on Friday, March 12. Today's discussion contains forward-looking statements based on current beliefs, assumptions and expectations, speak only as of today and as such, involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to diffe

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