BartMan schrijft: "AMD zet bijna 1 miljard dollar om in het laatste kwartaal van 1999, met een netto winst van ruim 65 miljoen dollar."
Hieronder een gedeelte uit dit artikel van Bloomberg. Voor meer info kun je ook terecht bij The Register, JC, of hier bij AMD zelf.
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000--Led by strong seasonal consumer demand for personal computers, AMD today reported record sales of $968,710,000 and net income of $65,080,000 in the quarter ended December 26, 1999.Net income amounted to $0.43 per diluted share. The company reported strong growth in the just-completed quarter and continuing strong demand in all of its product groups - the Computation Products Group, the Memory Group, and the Communications Group.
Sales grew by 46 percent from the immediate-prior quarter, and by 23 percent from the like period of 1998. In the immediate-prior quarter, AMD reported sales of $662,192,000 and a net loss of $105,545,000, or $0.72 per share. In the fourth quarter of 1998, AMD reported sales $788,820,000, which resulted in net income of $22,321,000, or $0.15 per diluted share.
At $2,857,604,000, AMD sales for 1999 grew by 12 percent and reached a record high for the company. For 1999, AMD reported a net loss of $88,936,000, or $0.60 per share. Results for 1999 include a one-time after-tax gain of $259,236,000 from the sale of Vantis Corporation, the company's programmable logic products subsidiary that was sold during the second quarter of 1999. Sales for AMD continuing product groups -- the Computation Products Group, Communications Group, and Memory Group -- grew by 17 percent over 1998. In 1998, AMD reported sales of $2,542,141,000, and a net loss of $103,960,000, or $0.72 per share.