AMD Posts $358M Loss for Q1, Announces Plans to Restructure
Dailytech
“AMD announces plans to toss out its dead weight. The news coming out of AMD hasn’t been on the most positive note in the past few weeks. The company announced in early April that it will cut 1,600 jobs by the end of 2008 representing 10% of its workforce. The reason for the cuts came as a result of steep declines in every business arena that AMD competes.Four days later, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, Phil Hester, stepped down from the company with no replacement in sight.
Today, AMD released even more unsettling news in the form of its Q1 2008 earnings report. As previously forecasted by AMD, revenue fell 15% from the previous quarter to $1.505B and the company experienced a net loss of $358M. Operating losses totaled $264M and the company faced a charge of $50M due to its 2006 acquisition of ATI.
“A seasonally weak first quarter was amplified by a challenging economic environment for consumers and lower than expected revenues of previous generation products, resulting in lower than expected revenues in all business segments,” said AMD CFO Robert J. Rivet. “However, we are encouraged by the market acceptance of our Quad-Core AMD Opteron server processors as well as our new chipset and graphics offerings.”
After experiencing an entire year of losses, AMD is now looking to restructure its business. The company will now put all of its divisions under the microscope and make the decision to sell off some of its underperforming units in order to become profitable in the second half of 2008.”