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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: f.simons who wrote (88971)1/22/2000 2:36:00 PM
From: milo_morai   of 1573101
 
Frank, some Q1 highlights that may help you out.

"Outlook:
* R&D up slightly ($650M for FY2k) for Dresden and increasing product/tech development
* Q1 R&D up $10-$15
* int-inc about $3M for FY2k (but $1.5M in Q1)
* interest expense: $85M y2k ($15M Q1)

* Taxes: zero tax rate operations (small tax expense in Q1 for gain on ireland presale
* Income FASL: shares +1M per quarter
* Cap spending around $800M in 2K (most in Dres)
* Appreciation $600M, depending on timing $20M revenue from foundry and other services, per quarter

turns to Ben:
(Communications and stuff)
Comm: sales up $34% Q-Q
(lots of this hard to hear due to sound artifacts, lots of chat about networking here)
Chat about ADSL chipsets, should grow rapidly in y2k.
+50% in core line card products
net growth 25%
Q1 2k 50% higher than Q1 1999
single digit percent growth Q-Q


Memory: sales increased 33% Q-Q (all from Flash, up to $215M)
Trend to higher density continues for cell phone market.
richer mix, higher ASP.
Very strong demand
increasing capacity for y2k
Q1 expected to be more than double Q1'99, then up 10% futher Q-Q

Embedded Processor Division:
+
Platform Products Division (AMD750)
=
$80M sales
Q1 down $10-20M (partly due to VIA)
This is okay with strategy.


Jerry:
Q4'99 excellent Q for AMD PC processors.
+67% revs sequentially to nearly $500M
record shipments in excess of 6M

Better than expected demand for K6 family
near record unit volume
inventories drained at end of Q
KASP declined only slightly because of good binsplits to 500MHz.
overall ASP $80 range from $55
1M Athlons built
900,000 Athlons shipped
sold over 800,000 Athlons
optimistic going forward
800MHz on January 6th.
850MHz this quarter
900MHz soon after
800MHz offered by "A number" of top OEMs.
widely sampling 850MHz.
Mercury Research says unit share went up to 17%
Forward.... More focused on profits than market share, but believe can improve both.
Long range 30% unit share end of 2001 goal still in place.
seasonal demand for decline of unit shipments expected
,b>Athlon unit shipments to increase in Q1.
Richer mix in Q1, somewhat higher blended ASP.
Memm & Comm not affected by seasonal buying patterns, will increase sequentially
Total Q1 revs dramatic y-y gain. "

jc-news.com

Also Jerry said Flash already sold out of Q1

Milo
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