AMD Reports 2016 First Quarter Results

Exe­cu­ted a Meaningful Step in IP Mone­tiza­ti­on Stra­tegy to Acce­le­ra­te AMD’s Growth; Assem­bly, Test, Mark and Pack (ATMP) Joint Ven­ture (JV) Tran­sac­tion Remains on Track to Clo­se in Q2 2016
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 04/21/16 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced reve­nue for the first quar­ter of 2016 of $832 mil­li­on, ope­ra­ting loss of $68 mil­li­on, and net loss of $109 mil­li­on, or $0.14 per share. Non-GAAP(1) ope­ra­ting loss was $55 mil­li­on and non-GAAP(1) net loss was $96 mil­li­on, or $0.12 per share.

GAAP Finan­cial Results

Q1-16 Q4-15 Q1-15
Reve­nue $832M $958M $1.03B
Ope­ra­ting loss $(68)M $(49)M $(137)M
Net loss / Loss per share $(109)M/$(0.14) $(102)M/$(0.13) $(180)M/$(0.23)

Non-GAAP Finan­cial Results1

Q1-16 Q4-15 Q1-15
Reve­nue $832M $958M $1.03B
Ope­ra­ting loss $(55)M $(39)M $(30)M
Net loss / Loss per share $(96)M/$(0.12) $(79)M/$(0.10) $(73)M/$(0.09)

Our stra­tegy to build a strong busi­ness foun­da­ti­on and impro­ve finan­cial per­for­mance through deli­ve­ring gre­at pro­ducts is begin­ning to show bene­fits,” said Lisa Su, AMD pre­si­dent and CEO. “We con­tin­ued to streng­then the per­for­mance of our Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics busi­ness as our cus­to­mers and part­ners show a gro­wing pre­fe­rence for AMD. We are opti­mi­stic about our growth pro­s­pects in the second half of the year across our busi­nesses based on new pro­duct intro­duc­tions and design wins.”

Q1 2016 Results

  • Q1 2016 was a 13-week fis­cal quarter.
  • Reve­nue of $832 mil­li­on, down 13 per­cent sequen­ti­al­ly and down 19 per­cent year-over-year. The sequen­ti­al decrease was pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower sales of semi-cus­tom SoCs. The year-over-year decli­ne was pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower sales of semi-cus­tom SoCs and cli­ent note­book processors.
  • Gross mar­gin of 32 per­cent, up 2 per­cen­ta­ge points sequen­ti­al­ly, due pri­ma­ri­ly to a richer pro­duct mix and the mix of reve­nue bet­ween busi­ness segments.
  • Ope­ra­ting expen­ses of $344 mil­li­on, com­pared to $332 mil­li­on for the pri­or quar­ter. Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expen­ses of $332 mil­li­on, com­pared to non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expen­ses of $323 mil­li­on in Q4 2015, pri­ma­ri­ly due to increased R&D expen­ses rela­ted to new pro­ducts, par­ti­al­ly off­set by lower SG&A expenses.
  • Ope­ra­ting loss of $68 mil­li­on, com­pared to an ope­ra­ting loss of $49 mil­li­on for the pri­or quar­ter. Non-GAAP(1) ope­ra­ting loss of $55 mil­li­on, com­pared to non-GAAP(1) ope­ra­ting loss of $39 mil­li­on in Q4 2015, pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower sales.
  • Net loss of $109 mil­li­on, loss per share of $0.14, and non-GAAP(1) net loss of $96 mil­li­on, non-GAAP(1) loss per share of $0.12, com­pared to a net loss of $102 mil­li­on, loss per share of $0.13 and non-GAAP(1) net loss of $79 mil­li­on, non-GAAP(1) loss per share of $0.10 in Q4 2015.
  • Cash and cash equi­va­lents were $716 mil­li­on at the end of the quar­ter, down $69 mil­li­on from the end of the pri­or quar­ter, due to lower sales and hig­her debt inte­rest pay­ments, par­ti­al­ly off­set by $52 mil­li­on of cash recei­ved rela­ted to our new­ly announ­ced IP licen­sing agreement.
  • Total debt at the end of the quar­ter was $2.24 bil­li­on, flat from the pri­or quarter.

Finan­cial Seg­ment Summary

  • Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics seg­ment reve­nue of $460 mil­li­on decreased 2 per­cent sequen­ti­al­ly and decreased 14 per­cent from Q1 2015. The sequen­ti­al decrease was pri­ma­ri­ly due to decreased sales of cli­ent desk­top pro­ces­sors and the year-over-year decrease was dri­ven pri­ma­ri­ly by decreased sales of cli­ent note­book processors. 
    • Ope­ra­ting loss was $70 mil­li­on, com­pared with an ope­ra­ting loss of $99 mil­li­on in Q4 2015 and an ope­ra­ting loss of $75 mil­li­on in Q1 2015. The sequen­ti­al impro­ve­ment was pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by lower ope­ra­ting expen­ses. The year-over-year impro­ve­ment was pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by lower ope­ra­ting expenses.
    • Cli­ent pro­ces­sor avera­ge sel­ling pri­ce (ASP) decreased sequen­ti­al­ly dri­ven by a lower desk­top pro­ces­sor ASP and decreased year-over-year pri­ma­ri­ly due to a lower note­book pro­ces­sor ASP.
    • GPU ASP decreased sequen­ti­al­ly dri­ven by lower con­su­mer GPU ASPs and increased year-over-year due to hig­her chan­nel and pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics ASPs.
  • Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom seg­ment reve­nue of $372 mil­li­on decreased 24 per­cent sequen­ti­al­ly and 25 per­cent year-over-year. The decrea­ses were pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by lower sales of semi-cus­tom SoCs. 
    • Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $16 mil­li­on com­pared with $59 mil­li­on in Q4 2015 and $45 mil­li­on in Q1 2015. The sequen­ti­al and year-over-year decrease was pri­ma­ri­ly due to lower sales and hig­her R&D expen­ses asso­cia­ted with new pro­duct invest­ments, par­ti­al­ly off­set by a $7 mil­li­on IP licen­sing gain.
  • All Other cate­go­ry ope­ra­ting loss was $14 mil­li­on com­pared with ope­ra­ting los­ses of $9 mil­li­on in Q4 2015 and $107 mil­li­on in Q1 2015. The year-over-year decrease was pri­ma­ri­ly due to the absence of res­truc­tu­ring and other spe­cial char­ges asso­cia­ted with the exit from the den­se ser­ver sys­tems business.

IP Licen­sing Agree­ment and JV with THATIC
AMD licen­sed high-per­for­mance pro­ces­sor and SoC tech­no­lo­gy to a new­ly-crea­ted JV it has for­med with THATIC (Tian­jin Hai­guang Advan­ced Tech­no­lo­gy Invest­ment Co., Ltd.) to deve­lop SoCs tail­o­red to the Chi­ne­se ser­ver mar­ket that will com­ple­ment AMD’s own offe­rings. The $293 mil­li­on licen­sing agree­ment is a meaningful step in AMD’s IP mone­tiza­ti­on stra­tegy inten­ded to acce­le­ra­te the Company’s growth and bet­ter mone­ti­ze its valuable assets. Pay­ments are con­tin­gent upon the JV achie­ving cer­tain mile­sto­nes. AMD also expects to recei­ve royal­ty pay­ments from the JV’s future pro­duct sales.

Our new licen­sing agree­ment is a gre­at exam­p­le of lever­aging our strong IP port­fo­lio to acce­le­ra­te the adop­ti­on of our tech­no­lo­gies more broad­ly,” said Dr. Su. “The joint ven­ture with THATIC pro­vi­des AMD with a dif­fe­ren­tia­ted approach to help gain share in the fas­test gro­wing regi­on of the ser­ver market.”

Recent High­lights

  • AMD’s Assem­bly, Test, Mark and Pack (ATMP) JV tran­sac­tion recei­ved appr­oval from Nan­tong Fuji­tsu Microelec­tro­nics Co., Ltd. share­hol­ders and the tran­sac­tion remains on track to clo­se in Q2 2016.
  • AMD momen­tum con­tin­ued for its mobi­le cli­ent solu­ti­ons and tech­no­lo­gies, start­ing ship­ments of the 7th Gene­ra­ti­on AMD A‑Series Pro­ces­sors (code­na­med “Bris­tol Ridge”) and secu­ring nota­ble com­mer­cial and con­su­mer design wins. 
    • AMD 7th Gene­ra­ti­on APUs are equip­ped with advan­ced video, gra­phics per­for­mance, secu­ri­ty and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy fea­tures and will first appear in the HP ENVY x360, with other ultrath­in note­book, con­ver­ti­ble, and all-in one OEM designs plan­ned to launch throug­hout the year.
    • AMD secu­red new HP note­book design wins and con­tin­ued to expand in the com­mer­cial PC mar­ket with new lar­ge-sca­le enter­pri­se deploy­ments for its 6thGene­ra­ti­on PRO A‑Series mobi­le processors.
  • AMD laun­ched new desk­top com­po­nent solu­ti­ons, inclu­ding the flag­ship AMD Wraith Coo­ler and its fas­test APU ever, the AMD A10-7890K. Other new addi­ti­ons to the 2016 Desk­top pro­ces­sor fami­ly include the new AMD A10-7870K and AMD A10-7860K APUs, and new AMD Ath­lon™ X4 880K and AMD Ath­lon™ X4 845 CPUs.
  • AMD dis­c­lo­sed its upco­ming GPU archi­tec­tu­re road­map, inclu­ding “Vega” fea­turing High Band­width Memo­ry 2, which the com­pa­ny plans to fol­low with the release of “Navi” which will be desi­gned with sca­la­bi­li­ty and next-gene­ra­ti­on memory.
  • AMD demons­tra­ted its “Pola­ris” 10 and 11 next-gene­ra­ti­on GPUs, with Pola­ris 11 tar­ge­ting the note­book mar­ket and “Pola­ris” 10 aimed at the main­stream desk­top and high-end gam­ing note­book seg­ment. “Pola­ris” archi­tec­tu­re-based GPUs are expec­ted to deli­ver a 2x per­for­mance per watt impro­ve­ment over cur­rent gene­ra­ti­on pro­ducts and are desi­gned for inten­si­ve workloads inclu­ding 4K video play­back and vir­tu­al rea­li­ty (VR).
  • AMD con­tin­ued to expand its lea­der­ship posi­ti­on in VR, unvei­ling new tech­no­lo­gies and col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons across a varie­ty of sec­tors, inclu­ding gam­ing, edu­ca­ti­on, and media. 
    • AMD intro­du­ced the Rade­on™ Pro Duo GPU, part of the world’s most powerful plat­form for VR desi­gned for crea­ting and con­sum­ing VR con­tent. AMD’s Rade­on™ Pro Duo GPU with its Liquid­VR™ SDK is a plat­form aimed at most all aspects of VR con­tent crea­ti­on: from enter­tain­ment to edu­ca­ti­on, jour­na­lism, medi­ci­ne, and cinema.
    • 20th Cen­tu­ry Fox, New Regen­cy, Ubi­s­oft Moti­on Pic­tures, and VR deve­lo­p­ment stu­dio Prac­ti­cal Magic cho­se the AMD Rade­on™ Pro Duo GPU fea­turing the AMD Liquid­VR™ SDK to bring the upco­ming ASSASSIN’S CREED movie VR expe­ri­ence to life.
    • Sulon Tech­no­lo­gies announ­ced the Sulon Q, the world’s only all-in-one, tether-free “wear and play” head­set for VR, Aug­men­ted Rea­li­ty (AR) and spa­ti­al com­pu­ting — powered by the AMD FX-8800P processor.
    • AMD joi­n­ed with The Asso­cia­ted Press to crea­te a new VR expe­ri­ence chan­nel to fuel next-gene­ra­ti­on journalism.
    • AMD announ­ced it is hel­ping col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties crea­te dedi­ca­ted AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics-equip­ped VR labs as Crytek’s exclu­si­ve tech­no­lo­gy part­ner for the VR First™ initia­ti­ve.
    • AMD released the Rade­on Soft­ware Crims­on Edi­ti­on 16.3.2 Dri­ver with sup­port for the Ocu­lus Rift™ SDK v1.3 — offe­ring AMD’s most sta­ble and com­pa­ti­ble dri­ver for deve­lo­ping VR expe­ri­en­ces on the Rift to-date.
  • AMD demons­tra­ted its con­tin­ued dedi­ca­ti­on to enab­ling gamers and game deve­lo­pers with the best pos­si­ble gra­phics experiences. 
  • AMD fur­ther estab­lished its pre­sence in the pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics mar­ket with the intro­duc­tion of new tech­no­lo­gies, design wins, and relationships. 

Cur­rent Outlook

AMD’s out­look state­ments are based on cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. The fol­lo­wing state­ments are for­ward-loo­king, and actu­al results could dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly depen­ding on mar­ket con­di­ti­ons and the fac­tors set forth under “Cau­tio­na­ry State­ment” below.

For Q2 2016, AMD expects reve­nue to increase 15 per­cent, plus or minus 3 per­cent, sequentially.

For addi­tio­nal details regar­ding AMD’s results and out­look plea­se see the CFO com­men­ta­ry pos­ted at quarterlyearnings.amd.com.

AMD Tele­con­fe­rence

AMD will hold a con­fe­rence call for the finan­cial com­mu­ni­ty at 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT) today to dis­cuss its first quar­ter finan­cial results. AMD will pro­vi­de a real-time audio broad­cast of the tele­con­fe­rence on the Inves­tor Rela­ti­ons page of its web­site at www.amd.com. The web­cast will be available for 12 months after the con­fe­rence call.

Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP to Non-GAAP Gross Margin

(Mil­li­ons except percentages) Q1-16 Q4-15 Q1-15
GAAP Gross Margin $ 269 $ 283 $ 326
GAAP Gross Margin % 32 % 30 % 32 %
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on 1 1 1
Non-GAAP Gross Margin $ 270 $ 284 $ 327
Non-GAAP Gross Margin % 32 % 30 % 32 %

Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP to Non-GAAP Ope­ra­ting Inco­me (Loss)

(Mil­li­ons) Q1-16 Q4-15 Q1-15
GAAP ope­ra­ting loss $ (68 ) $ (49 ) $ (137 )
Res­truc­tu­ring and other spe­cial char­ges, net (3 ) (6 ) 87
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets - - 3
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on 16 16 17
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting loss $ (55 ) $ (39 ) $ (30 )

Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP to Non-GAAP Net Inco­me (Loss) /Earnings (Loss) per Share

(Mil­li­ons except per share amounts) Q1-16 Q4-15 Q1-15
GAAP net loss /loss per share $ (109 ) $ (0.14 ) $ (102 ) $ (0.13 ) $ (180 ) $ (0.23 )
Res­truc­tu­ring and other spe­cial char­ges, net (3 ) - (6 ) (0.01 ) 87 0.11
Tax sett­le­ment in for­eign jurisdiction - - 13 0.02 - -
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets - - - - 3 0.00
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on 16 0.02 16 0.02 17 0.02
Non-GAAP net loss / loss per share $ (96 ) $ (0.12 ) $ (79 ) $ (0.10 ) $ (73 ) $ (0.09 )

About AMD

For more than 45 years, AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics, and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies — the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms, and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses, and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work, and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­terpages.

Cau­tio­na­ry Statement

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD” or the “Com­pa­ny”) inclu­ding AMD’s abili­ty to acce­le­ra­te its growth and mone­ti­ze its IP assets through its IP mone­tiza­ti­on stra­tegy; the expec­ted clo­sing date for the pro­po­sed joint ven­tures bet­ween AMD and Nan­tong Fuji­tsu Microelec­tro­nics Co., Ltd.; AMD’s expec­ted growth pro­s­pects in the second half of 2016; the expec­ted amounts to be recei­ved by AMD under the IP licen­sing agree­ment and the expec­ted royal­ty pay­ments to be recei­ved from future pro­duct sales; the expec­ted bene­fits from AMD’s joint ven­tures with THATIC; the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, timing and avai­lia­bi­ly of AMD’s future pro­ducts; and AMD’s expec­ted second quar­ter 2016 reve­nue, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this docu­ment are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this docu­ment and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’sdominance of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces may limit AMD’s abili­ty to com­pe­te effec­tively; AMD reli­es on GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GF) to manu­fac­tu­re all of its micro­pro­ces­sor and APU pro­ducts and a cer­tain por­ti­on of its GPU pro­ducts, with limi­t­ed excep­ti­ons. If GF is not able to satis­fy AMD’s manu­fac­tu­ring requi­re­ments, its busi­ness could be adver­se­ly impac­ted; AMD reli­es on third par­ties to manu­fac­tu­re its pro­ducts, and if they are unable to do so on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies, AMD’s busi­ness could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; fail­ure to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts could nega­tively impact its finan­cial results; the suc­cess of AMD’s busi­ness is depen­dent upon its abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with fea­tures and per­for­mance levels that pro­vi­de value to its cus­to­mers while sup­port­ing and coin­ci­ding with signi­fi­cant indus­try tran­si­ti­ons; if AMD can­not gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow or obtain exter­nal finan­cing, it may face a cash short­fall and be unable to make all of its plan­ned invest­ments in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment or other stra­te­gic invest­ments; the loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer may have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty may adver­se­ly impact AMD’s busi­ness and ope­ra­ting results; AMD may not be able to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to ser­vice its debt obli­ga­ti­ons or meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments; AMD has a sub­stan­ti­al amount of indeb­ted­ness which could adver­se­ly affect its finan­cial posi­ti­on and pre­vent it from imple­men­ting its stra­tegy or ful­fil­ling its con­trac­tu­al obli­ga­ti­ons; the agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the secu­red revol­ving line of cre­dit for a prin­ci­pal amount up to $500 mil­li­on (Secu­red Revol­ving Line of Cre­dit) impo­se rest­ric­tions on AMD that may adver­se­ly affect its abili­ty to ope­ra­te its busi­ness; the com­ple­ti­on and impact of its 2015 res­truc­tu­ring plan, its trans­for­ma­ti­on initia­ti­ves and any future res­truc­tu­ring actions could adver­se­ly affect it; the mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold are high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts could mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affect it; AMD’s receipt of reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts is depen­dent upon its tech­no­lo­gy being desi­gned into third-par­ty pro­ducts and the suc­cess of tho­se pro­ducts; the demand for AMD’s pro­ducts depends in part on the mar­ket con­di­ti­ons in the indus­tries into which they are sold. Fluc­tua­tions in demand for AMD’s pro­ducts or a mar­ket decli­ne in any of the­se indus­tries could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on its results of ope­ra­ti­ons; AMD’s abili­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner is depen­dent upon third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; AMD depends on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for the design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents to sup­port its busi­ness; if AMD loses­Mi­cro­soft Corporation’s sup­port for its pro­ducts or other soft­ware ven­dors do not design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts, its abili­ty to sell its pro­ducts could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and AIB part­ners sub­jects it to cer­tain risks; AMD’s ina­bi­li­ty to con­ti­nue to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel may hin­der its pro­duct deve­lo­p­ment pro­grams; in the event of a chan­ge of con­trol, AMD may not be able to repurcha­se its out­stan­ding debt as requi­red by the appli­ca­ble inden­tures and its Secu­red Revol­ving Line of Cre­dit, which would result in a default under the inden­tures and its Secu­red Revol­ving Line of Cre­dit; the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try is high­ly cycli­cal and has expe­ri­en­ced seve­re down­turns that have mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted, and may con­ti­nue to mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affect its busi­ness in the future; acqui­si­ti­ons, dives­ti­tures and/or joint ven­tures could dis­rupt its busi­ness, harm its finan­cial con­di­ti­on and ope­ra­ting results or dilute, or adver­se­ly affect the pri­ce of its com­mon stock; AMD’s busi­ness is depen­dent upon the pro­per func­tio­ning of its inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems and modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of such sys­tems may dis­rupt its busi­ness, pro­ces­ses and inter­nal con­trols; data brea­ches and cyber-attacks could com­pro­mi­se AMD’s intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty or other sen­si­ti­ve infor­ma­ti­on, be cos­t­ly to reme­dia­te and cau­se signi­fi­cant dama­ge to its busi­ness and repu­ta­ti­on; AMD’s ope­ra­ting results are sub­ject to quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; if essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses are not available to manu­fac­tu­re its pro­ducts, AMD could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; if AMD’s pro­ducts are not com­pa­ti­ble with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware, it could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; if AMD fails to main­tain the effi­ci­en­cy of its sup­p­ly chain as it responds to chan­ges in cus­to­mer demand for its pro­ducts, its busi­ness could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; AMD out­sour­ces to third par­ties cer­tain sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions, inclu­ding por­ti­ons of its pro­duct dis­tri­bu­ti­on, trans­por­ta­ti­on manage­ment and infor­ma­ti­on tech­no­lo­gy sup­port ser­vices; AMD may incur future impairm­ents of good­will; AMD’s world­wi­de ope­ra­ti­ons are sub­ject to poli­ti­cal, legal and eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters, which could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on it; world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons may adver­se­ly affect demand for AMD’s pro­ducts; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions could adver­se­ly affect AMD; AMD’s ina­bi­li­ty to effec­tively con­trol the sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on it; if AMD can­not ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty in the United Sta­tes and abroad, through patents, copy­rights, trade secrets, trade­marks and other mea­su­res, it may lose a com­pe­ti­ti­ve advan­ta­ge and incur signi­fi­cant expen­ses; AMD is a par­ty to liti­ga­ti­on and may beco­me a par­ty to other claims or liti­ga­ti­on that could cau­se it to incur sub­stan­ti­al cos­ts or pay sub­stan­ti­al dama­ges or pro­hi­bit it from sel­ling its pro­ducts; AMD’s busi­ness is sub­ject to poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; a varie­ty of envi­ron­men­tal laws that AMD is sub­ject to could result in addi­tio­nal cos­ts and lia­bi­li­ties; and hig­her health care cos­ts and labor cos­ts could adver­se­ly affect AMD’s busi­ness. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s Annu­al Report on Form 10‑K for the year ended Decem­ber 26, 2015.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, Cata­lyst, Fire­Pro, Rade­on, and com­bi­na­ti­ons the­reof, are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. ARM is a regis­tered trade­mark ofARM Limi­t­ed in the EU and other count­ries. DirectX, Micro­soft and Win­dows are regis­tered trade­marks of Micro­soft Cor­po­ra­ti­on in the US and other juris­dic­tions. Other names are for infor­ma­tio­nal pur­po­ses only and used to iden­ti­fy com­pa­nies and pro­ducts and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owner.

1 In this ear­nings press release, in addi­ti­on to GAAP finan­cial results, AMD has pro­vi­ded non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res inclu­ding non-GAAP gross mar­gin, non-GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss), non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expen­ses, non-GAAP rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment and mar­ke­ting, gene­ral and admi­nis­tra­ti­ve expen­ses, non-GAAP net inco­me (loss) and non-GAAP ear­nings (loss) per share. The­se non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res reflect cer­tain adjus­t­ments as pre­sen­ted in the tables in this ear­nings press release. AMD also pro­vi­ded adjus­ted EBITDA and non-GAAP free cash flow as sup­ple­men­tal mea­su­res of its per­for­mance. The­se items are defi­ned in the foot­no­tes to the sel­ec­ted cor­po­ra­te data tables pro­vi­ded at the end of this ear­nings press release. AMD is pro­vi­ding the­se finan­cial mea­su­res becau­se it belie­ves this non-GAAP pre­sen­ta­ti­on makes it easier for inves­tors to compa­re its ope­ra­ting results for cur­rent and his­to­ri­cal peri­ods and also becau­se AMD belie­ves it assists inves­tors in com­pa­ring AMD’s per­for­mance across report­ing peri­ods on a con­sis­tent basis by exclu­ding items that it does not belie­ve are indi­ca­ti­ve of its core ope­ra­ting per­for­mance and for the other reasons descri­bed in the CFO Commentary.

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Mil­li­ons except per share amounts and percentages)
Three Months Ended
March 26,
2016
Decem­ber 26,
2015
March 28,
2015
Net reve­nue $ 832 $ 958 $ 1,030
Cost of sales 563 675 704
Gross mar­gin 269 283 326
Gross mar­gin % 32 % 30 % 32 %
Rese­arch and development 242 229 242
Mar­ke­ting, gene­ral and administrative 105 109 131
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets - - 3
Res­truc­tu­ring and other spe­cial char­ges, net (3 ) (6 ) 87
Licen­sing gain (7 ) - -
Ope­ra­ting loss (68 ) (49 ) (137 )
Inte­rest expense (40 ) (41 ) (40 )
Other expen­se, net - (2 ) -
Loss befo­re inco­me taxes (108 ) (92 ) (177 )
Pro­vi­si­on for inco­me taxes 1 10 3
Net loss $ (109 ) $ (102 ) $ (180 )
Net loss per share
Basic $ (0.14 ) $ (0.13 ) $ (0.23 )
Diluted $ (0.14 ) $ (0.13 ) $ (0.23 )
Shares used in per share calculation
Basic 793 791 777
Diluted 793 791 777
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(Mil­li­ons)
Three Months Ended
March 26,
2016
Decem­ber 26,
2015
March 28,
2015
Total com­pre­hen­si­ve loss $ (107 ) $ (95 ) $ (187 )
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (1) (2)
(Mil­li­ons)
March 26,
2016
Decem­ber 26,
2015
Assets
Cur­rent assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 716 $ 785
Accounts receiva­ble, net 508 533
Invent­ories, net 675 678
Pre­pay­ment and other — GLOBALFOUNDRIES 26 33
Pre­paid expenses 49 43
Other cur­rent assets 252 248
Total cur­rent assets 2,226 2,320
Pro­per­ty, plant and equip­ment, net 176 188
Good­will 278 278
Other assets 301 298
Total Assets $ 2,981 $ 3,084
Lia­bi­li­ties and Stock­hol­ders’ Equi­ty (Defi­cit)
Cur­rent liabilities:
Short-term debt $ 230 $ 230
Accounts paya­ble 324 279
Paya­ble to GLOBALFOUNDRIES 233 245
Accrued lia­bi­li­ties 347 472
Other cur­rent liabilities 151 124
Defer­red inco­me on ship­ments to distributors 43 53
Total cur­rent liabilities 1,328 1,403
Long-term debt 2,006 2,007
Other long-term liabilities 150 86
Stock­hol­ders’ equi­ty (defi­cit):
Capi­tal stock:
Com­mon stock, par value 8 8
Addi­tio­nal paid-in capital 7,033 7,017
Tre­asu­ry stock, at cost (123 ) (123 )
Accu­mu­la­ted deficit (7,415 ) (7,306 )
Accu­mu­la­ted other com­pre­hen­si­ve loss (6 ) (8 )
Total Stock­hol­ders’ equi­ty (defi­cit) (503 ) (412 )
Total Lia­bi­li­ties and Stock­hol­ders’ Equi­ty (Defi­cit) $ 2,981 $ 3,084
(1) Amounts reflec­ted adop­ti­on of FASB ASU 2015–17, Balan­ce Sheet Clas­si­fi­ca­ti­on of Defer­red Taxes in the first quar­ter of 2016.
(2) Amounts reflec­ted adop­ti­on of FASB ASU 2015-03, Sim­pli­fy­ing the Pre­sen­ta­ti­on of Debt Issu­an­ce Cos­ts in the first quar­ter of 2016.
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
(Mil­li­ons)
Three Months Ended
March 26,
2016
Cash flows from ope­ra­ting activities:
Net Loss $ (109 )
Adjus­t­ments to recon­ci­le net loss to net cash used in ope­ra­ting activities:
Depre­cia­ti­on and amortization 33
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on expense 16
Non-cash inte­rest expense 4
Other (5 )
Chan­ges in ope­ra­ting assets and liabilities:
Accounts receiva­ble 26
Invent­ories 3
Pre­pay­ment and other — GLOBALFOUNDRIES 7
Pre­paid expen­ses and other assets 22
Accounts paya­ble, accrued lia­bi­li­ties and other (27 )
Paya­ble to GLOBALFOUNDRIES (12 )
Net cash used in ope­ra­ting activities $ (42 )
Cash flows from inves­t­ing activities:
Purcha­ses of pro­per­ty, plant and equipment (26 )
Net cash used in inves­t­ing activities $ (26 )
Cash flows from finan­cing activities:
Other (1 )
Net cash used in finan­cing activities $ (1 )
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents (69 )
Cash and cash equi­va­lents at begin­ning of period $ 785
Cash and cash equi­va­lents at end of period $ 716
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
SELECTED CORPORATE DATA
(Mil­li­ons except headcount)
Three Months Ended
Seg­ment and Cate­go­ry Information March 26,
2016
Decem­ber 26,
2015
March 28,
2015
Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics (1)
Net reve­nue $ 460 $ 470 $ 532
Ope­ra­ting loss $ (70 ) $ (99 ) $ (75 )
Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom (2)
Net reve­nue $ 372 $ 488 $ 498
Ope­ra­ting income $ 16 $ 59 $ 45
All Other (3)
Net reve­nue - - -
Ope­ra­ting loss $ (14 ) $ (9 ) $ (107 )
Total
Net reve­nue $ 832 $ 958 $ 1,030
Ope­ra­ting loss $ (68 ) $ (49 ) $ (137 )
Other Data
Depre­cia­ti­on and amor­tiza­ti­on, exclu­ding amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets $ 33 $ 34 $ 43
Capi­tal additions $ 26 $ 32 $ 22
Adjus­ted EBITDA (4) $ (22 ) $ (5 ) $ 13
Cash and cash equivalents $ 716 $ 785 $ 906
Non-GAAP free cash flow (5) $ (68 ) $ 27 $ (194 )
Total assets $ 2,981 $ 3,084 $ 3,399
Total debt $ 2,236 $ 2,237 $ 2,239
Head­count 9,047 9,139 9,583
See foot­no­tes on the next page
(1) Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics seg­ment pri­ma­ri­ly includes desk­top and note­book pro­ces­sors, chip­sets, dis­crete gra­phics pro­ces­sing units (GPUs) and pro­fes­sio­nal graphics.
(2) Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom seg­ment pri­ma­ri­ly includes ser­ver and embedded pro­ces­sors, semi-cus­tom Sys­tem-on-Chip (SoC) pro­ducts, deve­lo­p­ment ser­vices, tech­no­lo­gy for game con­so­les and licen­sing gain.
(3) All Other cate­go­ry pri­ma­ri­ly includes cer­tain expen­ses and cre­dits that are not allo­ca­ted to any of the ope­ra­ting seg­ments. Also included in this cate­go­ry are stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on expen­se and res­truc­tu­ring and other spe­cial char­ges, net. In addi­ti­on, the Com­pa­ny also included amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets for the first quar­ter of 2015.
(4) Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP Ope­ra­ting Loss to Adjus­ted EBITDA*
Three Months Ended
March 26,
2016
Decem­ber 26,
2015
March 28,
2015
GAAP ope­ra­ting loss $ (68 ) $ (49 ) $ (137 )
Res­truc­tu­ring and other spe­cial char­ges, net (3 ) (6 ) 87
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on expense 16 16 17
Amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets - - 3
Depre­cia­ti­on and amortization 33 34 43
Adjus­ted EBITDA $ (22 ) $ (5 ) $ 13
(5) Non-GAAP free cash flow reconciliation**
Three Months Ended
March 26,
2016
Decem­ber 26,
2015
March 28,
2015
GAAP net cash pro­vi­ded by (used in) ope­ra­ting activities $ (42 ) $ 59 $ (172 )
Purcha­ses of pro­per­ty, plant and equipment (26 ) (32 ) (22 )
Non-GAAP free cash flow $ (68 ) $ 27 $ (194 )
* The Com­pa­ny pres­ents “Adjus­ted EBITDA” as a sup­ple­men­tal mea­su­re of its per­for­mance. Adjus­ted EBITDA for the Com­pa­ny is deter­mi­ned by adjus­ting ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss) for depre­cia­ti­on and amor­tiza­ti­on, stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on expen­se and res­truc­tu­ring and other spe­cial char­ges, net. In addi­ti­on, the com­pa­ny excluded amor­tiza­ti­on of acqui­red intan­gi­ble assets for the first quar­ter of 2015. The Com­pa­ny cal­cu­la­tes and com­mu­ni­ca­tes Adjus­ted EBITDA becau­se the Company’s manage­ment belie­ves it is of importance to inves­tors and len­ders in rela­ti­on to its over­all capi­tal struc­tu­re and its abili­ty to bor­row addi­tio­nal funds. In addi­ti­on, the Com­pa­ny pres­ents Adjus­ted EBITDA becau­se it belie­ves this mea­su­re assists inves­tors in com­pa­ring its per­for­mance across report­ing peri­ods on a con­sis­tent basis by exclu­ding items that the Com­pa­ny does not belie­ve are indi­ca­ti­ve of its core ope­ra­ting per­for­mance. The Company’s cal­cu­la­ti­on of Adjus­ted EBITDA may or may not be con­sis­tent with the cal­cu­la­ti­on of this mea­su­re by other com­pa­nies in the same indus­try. Inves­tors should not view Adjus­ted EBITDA as an alter­na­ti­ve to the GAAP ope­ra­ting mea­su­re of ope­ra­ting inco­me (loss) or GAAP liqui­di­ty mea­su­res of cash flows from ope­ra­ting, inves­t­ing and finan­cing acti­vi­ties. In addi­ti­on, Adjus­ted EBITDA does not take into account chan­ges in cer­tain assets and lia­bi­li­ties as well as inte­rest and inco­me taxes that can affect cash flows.
** The Com­pa­ny also pres­ents non-GAAP free cash flow as a sup­ple­men­tal mea­su­re of its per­for­mance. Non-GAAP free cash flow is deter­mi­ned by adjus­ting GAAP net cash pro­vi­ded by (used in) ope­ra­ting acti­vi­ties for capi­tal expen­dit­ures. The Com­pa­ny cal­cu­la­tes and com­mu­ni­ca­tes non-GAAP free cash flow in the finan­cial ear­nings press release becau­se the Company’s manage­ment belie­ves it is of importance to inves­tors to under­stand the natu­re of the­se cash flows. The Company’s cal­cu­la­ti­on of non-GAAP free cash flow may or may not be con­sis­tent with the cal­cu­la­ti­on of this mea­su­re by other com­pa­nies in the same indus­try. Inves­tors should not view non-GAAP free cash flow as an alter­na­ti­ve to GAAP liqui­di­ty mea­su­res of cash flows from ope­ra­ting acti­vi­ties. The Com­pa­ny has pro­vi­ded recon­ci­lia­ti­ons within the ear­nings press release of the­se non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res to the most direct­ly com­pa­ra­ble GAAP finan­cial measures.