AMD CEO says PC market isn’t dead, hails EPYC sales

Rising adoption of its EPYC and Ryzen processors helps AMD turn in a record quarter

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AMDhas clocked another record-setting quarter piggybacking on the doubling ofdata centersales, with a significant increase in the shipments of thethird-gen EPYC Milanprocessors.

“AMDhad another record quarter as revenue grew 54% and operating income doubled year-over-year,”observedAMD president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su commenting on Q3 2021’s $4.3 billion revenue.

Recounting some of its biggest wins this quarter, AMD highlighted the use of EPYC processors for the Argonne National Labs’ Polaris supercomputer, as well as by the variouscloud computingproviders includingGoogle Cloud,AmazonWeb Services (AWS), andCloudflare.

Consumers still king

AMD notes that another contributing factor to this quarter’s growth has been the higher revenue from the Computing and Graphics segment as well.

In an earnings call, as reported byVentureBeat, Su noted that AMD’s sales fromPCandgraphicsproducts rose 44%, year over year, to $2.4 billion.

Driving much of that growth was the double-digit rise in shipment of the company’sRyzen 5000processor, which was lapped up by manufacturers.Lenovo, for instance, launched its Ryzen-basedThinkbookand Thinkpad E seriesbusiness laptopsfeaturingWindows 11, whileHPunveiled two Ryzen-poweredall-in-one computers, andASUSlaunched the Ryzen 5000 Series-basedZenbooks.

AMDs results paint a rosy picture for a segment that’s spent the entire quarter reeling under the effects of aglobal semiconductor shortagethat’s affected manufacturers up and down the supply chain.

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However, Su acknowledged that while the demand from the PC market is strong, component shortages will likely result in a “flattish” growth in the next quarter.

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