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AMD Bucks The Trend – The Stock Is Up 5% 

  • Advanced Micro Devices press release (NASDAQ:AMD): Q2 Non-GAAP EPS of $0.69 beats by $0.01. 
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  • Revenue of $5.84B (+9.0% Y/Y) beats by $120M. 
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  • Record Data Center segment revenue of $2.8 billion was up 115% year-over-year primarily driven by the steep ramp of AMD Instinct™ GPU shipments, and strong growth in 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPU sales. Revenue increased 21% sequentially primarily driven by the strong ramp of AMD Instinct GPU shipments. 
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  • Client segment revenue was $1.5 billion, up 49% year-over-year and 9% sequentially primarily driven by sales of AMD Ryzen™ processors. 
  • Gaming segment revenue was $648 million, down 59% year-over-year and 30% sequentially primarily due to a decrease in semi-custom revenue. 
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  • For the third quarter of 2024, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $6.7 billion vs. $6.61B consensus, plus or minus $300 million. At the mid-point of the revenue range, this represents year-over-year growth of approximately 16% and sequential growth of approximately 15%. Non-GAAP gross margin is expected to be approximately 53.5%.