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Nicolas Baratte

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Advanced Micro Devices / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>3Q24 results inline with Consensus. 4Q guidance slightly below. 2025 Consensus is in the ballpark: 28% revenue growth, 59% EPS growth. The stock trades at average forward PEx 31x.</li>
<li>2024 GPU revenue guidance has increased from US$2bn a year ago to “exceed $5bn”. The concern is that AMD is lagging Nvidia. But AMD’s 1st competitive GPU is available 1Q25.</li>
<li>Other concern is that GPU growth is eating at the CPU market. AMD unit share is ~24% in 2024 (revenue share 33%). AMD can reach 35% unit share by 2026.</li>
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3Q24 results inline with Consensus. 4Q guidance slightly below. 2025 Consensus is in the ballpark: 28% revenue growth, 59% EPS growth. The stock trades at average forward PEx 31x.
2024 GPU revenue guidance has increased from US$2bn a year ago to “exceed $5bn”. The concern is that AMD is lagging Nvidia. But AMD’s 1st competitive GPU is available 1Q25.
Other concern is that GPU growth is eating at the CPU market. AMD unit share is ~24% in 2024 (revenue share 33%). AMD can reach 35% unit share by 2026.


AMD 3Q24: The Stock Is Down 8% Afterhours. We See Concerns in the Wrong Place, a Buying Opportunity

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<ul><li>Advanced Micro Devices reported fourth-quarter revenue of $7.7 billion, a 24% increase year-over-year, driven by strong growth in the data center and client segments.</li><li>The data center segment, which includes AI accelerators and server processors, delivered $3.9 billion in revenue, up 69% year-over-year but missing analyst expectations of $4.09 billion.</li><li>The company gained market share in CPUs, securing key wins with hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, and Google.</li></ul>

Advanced Micro Devices reported fourth-quarter revenue of $7.7 billion, a 24% increase year-over-year, driven by strong growth in the data center and client segments.The data center segment, which includes AI accelerators and server processors, delivered $3.9 billion in revenue, up 69% year-over-year but missing analyst expectations of $4.09 billion.The company gained market share in CPUs, securing key wins with hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, and Google.

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William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

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Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

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<li>AMD’s Lisa Su has been honoured as Time’s CEO of the year, a fitting tribute to a leader who  pulled off what many thought to be impossible</li>
<li>Despite flawless execution and carving out a brand new $5 billion market segment within AI Acceleration, AMD's share prices is down 44% from its 52 week high</li>
<li>AMD will ultimately face headwinds from Arm but, for the time being, their growth will come from continuing to take market share from Intel and building on their Instinct platform </li>
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AMD’s Lisa Su has been honoured as Time’s CEO of the year, a fitting tribute to a leader who  pulled off what many thought to be impossible
Despite flawless execution and carving out a brand new $5 billion market segment within AI Acceleration, AMD's share prices is down 44% from its 52 week high
AMD will ultimately face headwinds from Arm but, for the time being, their growth will come from continuing to take market share from Intel and building on their Instinct platform 


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<li>Q424 revenues of $7.7. billion, up 12% QoQ, up 27% YoY and $200 million above the guided midpoint. This marked the company’s highest ever quarterly revenue</li>
<li>AMD forecasted Q125 revenues of $7.1 billion at the midpoint, up 30% YoY but down ~7% sequentially. This caused the share price to decline by ~9% in after hours trading</li>
<li>H125 is a reset period for AMD's Data Center GPU roadmap. ROCm simply isn't mature enough to compete effectively with NVIDIA. AMD must do better, and I believe they will.</li>
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Q424 revenues of $7.7. billion, up 12% QoQ, up 27% YoY and $200 million above the guided midpoint. This marked the company’s highest ever quarterly revenue
AMD forecasted Q125 revenues of $7.1 billion at the midpoint, up 30% YoY but down ~7% sequentially. This caused the share price to decline by ~9% in after hours trading
H125 is a reset period for AMD's Data Center GPU roadmap. ROCm simply isn't mature enough to compete effectively with NVIDIA. AMD must do better, and I believe they will.


AMD Q424. Share Price Sinks As Data Center GPU Growth Stalls In H125. But Why?

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<li>4Q24: just inline, flattish AI GPU revenue, recovery in Server and PC. Not impressive but ok. What matters is: accelerating GPU launch in 2025, the open-source software platform gains traction.</li>
<li>Please take this literally, from CEO: Data Center AI (revenue will increase) from US$5bn in 2024 to tens of billions of dollars of annual revenue over the coming years.</li>
<li>Stock has corrected by -32% since Oct-24. It’s trading at -1 standard deviation on forward EPS or 23x 2025EPS. Time to Buy.</li>
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4Q24: just inline, flattish AI GPU revenue, recovery in Server and PC. Not impressive but ok. What matters is: accelerating GPU launch in 2025, the open-source software platform gains traction.
Please take this literally, from CEO: Data Center AI (revenue will increase) from US$5bn in 2024 to tens of billions of dollars of annual revenue over the coming years.
Stock has corrected by -32% since Oct-24. It’s trading at -1 standard deviation on forward EPS or 23x 2025EPS. Time to Buy.


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