PRESS RELEASE
Published on December 21, 1995
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Chuck Mulloy
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ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES EXPECTS
DISAPPOINTING FOURTH-QUARTER 486 SALES
SUNNYVALE, CA... December 18, 1995... Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today
announced that it expects fourth-quarter earnings to be lower than last quarter.
The company attributed the earnings shortfall entirely to lower than expected
shipments of AM486(R) microprocessors. AMD plans to release annual results on
January 10, 1996.
"While we expect our fourth-quarter revenues to be up over last quarter, the
increase will not be enough to offset higher depreciation and start-up costs
from Fab 25, our new megafab in Austin, Texas. As a result, our earnings will be
down sequentially and less than analysts' expectations," said W.J. Sanders III,
chairman and chief executive officer of AMD.
Sales of communications, programmable logic and memory products remain strong,
with demand for flash memory devices continuing to exceed supply. AMD continues
to expect that aggregate revenues from these product lines will be up
approximately 10 percent sequentially and 50 percent compared to the fourth
quarter of 1994.
Sanders said AMD will ship fewer Am486 devices than in third quarter of 1995 as
a result of unanticipated Intel 486 microprocessor sales activity. "Intel had
appeared to be exiting the 486 market but came back during the fourth quarter.
The supply of 100Mhz
(more)
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486 microprocessors from Intel prevented AMD from achieving our expected unit
shipment goal." Sanders said that AMD maintained its announced pricing
throughout the quarter.
AMD also announced that it has begun sampling major computer development
partners with initial version of its fifth-generation, Microsoft(R)
Windows(R)-compatible microprocessor, code-named SSA/5-75. Based on AMD's
K86(TM) Superscalar architecture and manufactured on 0.35 micron process
technology, the SSA/5-75 is a plug-in replacement for a 75Mhz Pentium.
Focusing on the personal and networked computing and communications markets,
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., produces microprocessors and related peripherals,
flash memories, programmable logic devices, and circuits for telecommunications
and networking applications. Founded in 1969, AMD reported 1994 revenues of $2.1
billion. With headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, AMD has sales offices
worldwide and manufacturing facilities in Sunnyvale; Austin, Texas; Bangkok,
Thailand; Penang, Malaysia; Singapore; Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan and Basingstoke,
England.
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