"For second-quarter 2020, AMD expects robust sales from Ryzen and EPYC processor to drive revenues. Management anticipates Semi-custom revenues to gain from production increase to support the launch of the latest Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 gaming consoles scheduled for holiday season of 2020.
Solid uptake of latest Ryzen, Radeon and EPYC server processors in the PC, gaming, cloud, HPC and data center verticals, triggered by coronavirus-led work-from-home wave, is expected to have benefited second-quarter performance.
Particularly, AMD’s second generation of its EPYC processors (code-named Rome and built on its Zen 2 microarchitecture) have been witnessing adoption by notable cloud players including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
Notably, AMD EPYC processors have been adopted by multiple high-performance computers that include seventh fastest supercomputer in the world and four of the 50 highest-performance systems on the bi-annual TOP500 list.The processors have also been witnessing adoption in advanced science and health research with new installations at Purdue University, Indiana University and CERN.
Moreover, AMD’s latest Radeon Pro 5600M Mobile GPUs based on 7 nanometer (nm) RDNA architecture have been implemented in Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops to enable advanced graphics performance.
Management also remains optimistic regarding growing clout of Ryzen 4000 mobile processors families across leading OEMs......
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