AMD Increased Q3 Sales 32 Percent
AMD increased sales once again in their third quarter, further evidence that Sun placed the right bet on x64:
"Third quarter sales increased nine percent from the prior quarter, and 32 percent year-over-year, due to strong demand for all AMD processor brands," said Robert J. Rivet, AMD's chief financial officer. "Microprocessor unit shipments grew 18 percent sequentially as customers continued leveraging AMD's open platform approach. Demand for AMD Turion 64 mobile processors was especially strong, resulting in record mobile processor sales and unit shipments coupled with increased average selling prices (ASPs). Record AMD Opteron processor sales resulted from continued adoption of dual core processors, record unit shipments and improved ASPs." Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( October 23, 2006 05:00 AM ) PermalinkComments are closed for this entry.


