Moving in the right direction. This is good for everyone.

Good job Amd!

I just watched bloomberg, they showed and said 13.xx % ....1.x$ per share rise. edit: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd/interactive-chart basically, their stock is worth less now then it was in Jan 2017.

Just in time for them to shit the bed by not releasing a competitive gaming GPU in 2018 hahaha. Of course I'm just being cynical as I love that AMD is making a come back. Where's the Vega/Navi though? We have new monitors and TV's with Freesync 2 and no horsepower to drive them. #sadness

omni_gamer:

Just in time for them to crap the bed by not releasing a competitive gaming GPU in 2018 hahaha. Of course I'm just being cynical as I love that AMD is making a come back. Where's the Vega/Navi though? We have new monitors and TV's with Freesync 2 and no horsepower to drive them. #sadness

There is little point to releasing a GPU currently with no new process node in mass production. You could bring some minor architectural changes, perhaps some frequency bumps and whatnot with 12nm (improved 16/14nm processes) but if you ship an entire product lineup, only to have a competitor wait a few more months and ship on 7nm - you're screwed. Both companies are most likely waiting for 7nm to hit a point where manufacturing smaller dies (sub 400mm2) makes sense economically, which should be towards the end of this year Q3/Q4. At least that's my take on why they'd be waiting. Nvidia might have a slight advantage with TSMC through, which seems to be slightly ahead of the game on 7nm. Supposedly mass production on TSMC is starting soon - we so Nvidia might launch new cards earlier in the year.

omni_gamer:

Of course I'm just being cynical as I love that AMD is making a come back. Where's the Vega/Navi though? We have new monitors and TV's with Freesync 2 and no horsepower to drive them. #sadness

In addition to what Denial said, there's not much point in releasing new GPUs while the crypto mining is still throwing everything out of whack. AMD (and Nvidia) might as well keep profiting off old hardware until the mining craze dies down.

schmidtbag:

In addition to what Denial said, there's not much point in releasing new GPUs while the crypto mining is still throwing everything out of whack. AMD (and Nvidia) might as well keep profiting off old hardware until the mining craze dies down.

I don't know if the stars aligned or if AMD saw this coming but the mining craze has been perfectly timed for AMD. They have a product in Vega that is ok for gaming but really good for mining. Hopefully Navi is not late and is much improved for gaming. Not that Vega is bad but its barely competitive to Nividas prior gen which normally you expect something that lands 18 months later to smoke the prior gen. I wish them the best of luck, I certainly have missed the competition.

SSD_PRO:

That's the problem: prior to Ryzen launch there was so much hype and hope. It was at 14.90 prior to Ryzen launch day back in March 2017. Right now, even up $1.25 or 13% today, it is still down $4 or 27% since Ryzen launch. While initial Ryzen reception was disappointment or short of expectation, I think it is stabilizing now and showing a gentle upwards trend. Reality has set in - they didn't revolutionize or drop a bomb on Intel but provided a decent value competitor to stabilize the marketplace. This is good for everyone, probably even Intel as Intel will be pushed to release more exciting products.

I would like to go on record that I never thought Zen was going to be the "bomb" as it was AMD's first step towards Zen 2 on 7nm, an actual high frequency process from GloFlo unlike nothing GloFlo has produced before. They got a good CPU design now when they move it over to 7nm is should be that preverbal "bomb". I could be wrong but I don't think so.

FAKE NEWS ;-) INTEL fanboys said AMD would be bankrupt and so did GOLDMANSACHS or whoever they are. Anywho all thanks to Lisa Su & Jim Keller. I made a few of my landscape customers rich. I remember them buying it at around $2-$3 a share and so did I but sold all when I was tight on money from a street bike accident.

D3M1G0D:

2017 was a major hype year for AMD, where investors hyped up the company to unrealistic levels. In 2018, investors are a lot more realistic and reasonable regarding AMD's valuation. As an investor myself, I'm pretty happy with the results. Summit Ridge helped launch them into profitability, and the Pinnacle Ridge launch was well-received as well (expecting good things in the next quarter). Of course things aren't as rosy on the GPU front, but the company itself is headed in the right direction (they also increased their R&D spending so hopefully good things will come).

I wish you luck. My point is that, no matter how much bigger the company is now in budget and funding, their shareholders don't much care for that if the shares are not reflecting the same increase. And they are not. That's stock market for ya...You need to take care of your shareholders if you wish for your company to increase in worth. What you are in for is a slow and steady pace of ups and downs with a slow upwards slope. You'll probably die (or AMD will) before you see any income generated. I would have sold the shares half a year ago when the price was in the 20s. Bought shares again 5 days ago 🙂