AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results

― Record quar­ter­ly reve­nue of $4.8B up 49% y/y; Record full year reve­nue of $16.4B up 68%;
Gross mar­gin expan­ded and ope­ra­ting inco­me more than dou­bled from pri­or year ―

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announ­ced reve­nue for the fourth quar­ter of 2021 of $4.8 bil­li­on, ope­ra­ting inco­me of $1.2 bil­li­on, net inco­me of $974 mil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share of $0.80. On a non-GAAP(*) basis, ope­ra­ting inco­me was $1.3 bil­li­on, net inco­me was $1.1 bil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share was $0.92.

For full year 2021, the com­pa­ny repor­ted reve­nue of $16.4 bil­li­on, ope­ra­ting inco­me of $3.6 bil­li­on, net inco­me of $3.2 bil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share of $2.57. On a non-GAAP(*) basis, ope­ra­ting inco­me was $4.1 bil­li­on, net inco­me was $3.4 bil­li­on and diluted ear­nings per share was $2.79.

GAAP Quar­ter­ly Finan­cial Results

  Q4 2021 Q4 2020 Y/Y Q3 2021 Q/Q
Reve­nue ($M) $4,826 $3,244 Up 49% $4,313 Up 12%
Gross pro­fit ($M) $2,426 $1,451 Up 67% $2,086 Up 16%
Gross mar­gin % 50% 45% Up 560 bps 48% Up 190 bps
Ope­ra­ting expen­ses ($M) $1,223 $881 Up 39% $1,141 Up 7%
Ope­ra­ting inco­me ($M) $1,207 $570 Up 112% 948 Up 27%
Ope­ra­ting margin % 25% 18% Up 7pp 22% Up 3pp
Tax valua­ti­on allo­wan­ce release bene­fit ($M)(1) - $1,301 - - -
Net inco­me ($M) $974 $1,781 Down 45% $923 Up 6%
Ear­nings per share(1) $0.80 $1.45 Down 45% $0.75 Up 7%

Non-GAAP(*) Quar­ter­ly Finan­cial Results

  Q4 2021 Q4 2020 Y/Y Q3 2021 Q/Q
Reve­nue ($M) $4,826 $3,244 Up 49% $4,313 Up 12%
Gross pro­fit ($M) $2,427 $1,452 Up 67% $2,087 Up 16%
Gross mar­gin % 50% 45% Up 560 bps 48% Up 190 bps
Ope­ra­ting expen­ses ($M) $1,103 $789 Up 40% $1,035 Up 7%
Ope­ra­ting inco­me ($M) $1,328 $663 Up 100% $1,055 Up 26%
Ope­ra­ting margin % 27% 20% Up 7pp 24% Up 3pp
Net inco­me ($M) $1,122 $636 Up 76% $893 Up 26%
Ear­nings per share $0.92 $0.52 Up 77% $0.73 Up 26%

Annu­al Finan­cial Results

  GAAP Non-GAAP(*)
  2021 2020 Y/Y 2021 2020 Y/Y
Reve­nue ($M) $16,434 $9,763 Up 68% $16,434 $9,763 Up 68%
Gross pro­fit ($M) $7,929 $4,347 Up 82% $7,934 $4,353 Up 82%
Gross mar­gin % 48% 45% Up 370 bps 48% 45% Up 370bps
Ope­ra­ting expen­ses ($M) $4,293 $2,978 Up 44% $3,877 $2,696 Up 44%
Ope­ra­ting inco­me ($M) $3,648 $1,369 Up 166% $4,069 $1,657 Up 146%
Ope­ra­ting margin % 22% 14% Up 8pp 25% 17% Up 8pp
Tax valua­ti­on allo­wan­ce release bene­fit ($M)(1) - $1,301 - - - -
Net inco­me ($M) $3,162 $2,490 Up 27% $3,435 $1,575 Up 118%
Ear­nings per share(1) $2.57 $2.06 Up 25% $2.79 $1.29 Up 117%

 

(1) The fourth quar­ter of 2020 included an inco­me tax bene­fit of $1.3 bil­li­on asso­cia­ted with a valua­ti­on allo­wan­ce release which con­tri­bu­ted $1.06 per share to EPS for Q4 2020 and $1.07 per share to EPS for FY 2020 on a GAAP basis.

2021 was an out­stan­ding year for AMD with record annu­al reve­nue and pro­fi­ta­bi­li­ty,” said AMD Pre­si­dent and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “Each of our busi­nesses per­for­med extre­me­ly well, with data cen­ter reve­nue doubling year-over-year dri­ven by gro­wing adop­ti­on of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors across cloud and enter­pri­se cus­to­mers. We expect ano­ther year of signi­fi­cant growth in 2022 as we ramp our cur­rent port­fo­lio and launch our next gene­ra­ti­on of PC, gam­ing and data cen­ter products.”

Q4 2021 Results

  • Reve­nue of $4.8 bil­li­on was up 49 per­cent year-over-year and 12 per­cent quar­ter-over-quar­ter dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue in the Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics and Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom segments.
  • Gross mar­gin was 50 per­cent, an increase of more than 5 per­cen­ta­ge points year-over-year and appro­xi­m­ate­ly 2 per­cen­ta­ge points quar­ter-over-quar­ter. The year-over-year and quar­ter-over-quar­ter increa­ses were pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by a richer pro­duct mix.
  • Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $1.2 bil­li­on com­pared to $570 mil­li­on a year ago and $948 mil­li­on in the pri­or quar­ter. Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me was $1.3 bil­li­on com­pared to $663 mil­li­on a year ago and $1.1 bil­li­on in the pri­or quar­ter. Ope­ra­ting inco­me impro­ve­ments were pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue and gross mar­gin expansion.
  • Net inco­me was $974 mil­li­on com­pared to $1.8 bil­li­on a year ago, which included a $1.3 bil­li­on inco­me tax bene­fit asso­cia­ted with a valua­ti­on allo­wan­ce release, and $923 mil­li­on in the pri­or quar­ter. Non-GAAP net inco­me was $1.1 bil­li­on com­pared to $636 mil­li­on a year ago and $893 mil­li­on in the pri­or quarter.
  • Diluted ear­nings per share was $0.80 com­pared to $1.45 a year ago, which included a $1.06 per share inco­me tax bene­fit, and $0.75 in the pri­or quar­ter. Non-GAAP diluted ear­nings per share was $0.92 com­pared to $0.52 a year ago and $0.73 in the pri­or quarter.
  • Cash, cash equi­va­lents and short-term invest­ments were $3.6 bil­li­on at the end of the quar­ter. The com­pa­ny repurcha­sed $756 mil­li­on of com­mon stock during the quarter.
  • Cash from ope­ra­ti­ons was $822 mil­li­on in the quar­ter com­pared to $554 mil­li­on a year ago and $849 mil­li­on in the pri­or quar­ter. Free cash flow was $736 mil­li­on in the quar­ter com­pared to $480 mil­li­on a year ago and $764 mil­li­on in the pri­or quar­ter. Fourth quar­ter cash from ope­ra­ti­ons and free cash flow included stra­te­gic invest­ments in long-term sup­p­ly chain capa­ci­ty to sup­port future reve­nue growth.

Quar­ter­ly Finan­cial Seg­ment Summary

  • Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics seg­ment reve­nue was $2.6 bil­li­on, up 32 per­cent year-over-year and up 8 per­cent quar­ter-over-quar­ter. The year-over-year and quar­ter-over-quar­ter increa­ses were dri­ven by Ryzen™ and Rade­on™ pro­ces­sor sales. 
    • Cli­ent pro­ces­sor avera­ge sel­ling pri­ce (ASP) increased year-over-year and quar­ter-over-quar­ter due to a richer mix of Ryzen pro­ces­sor sales.
    • GPU ASP increased year-over-year pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by Rade­on pro­duct sales and decreased quar­ter-over-quar­ter due to pro­duct mix.
    • Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $566 mil­li­on com­pared to $420 mil­li­on a year ago and $513 mil­li­on in the pri­or quar­ter. Ope­ra­ting inco­me impro­ve­ments were pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue, par­ti­al­ly off­set by hig­her ope­ra­ting expenses.
  • Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom seg­ment reve­nue was $2.2 bil­li­on, up 75 per­cent year-over-year and 17 per­cent quar­ter-over-quar­ter dri­ven by hig­her EPYC™ and semi-cus­tom pro­ces­sor sales. 
    • Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $762 mil­li­on com­pared to $243 mil­li­on a year ago and $542 mil­li­on in the pri­or quar­ter. Ope­ra­ting inco­me impro­ve­ments were pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue and richer pro­duct mix, par­ti­al­ly off­set by hig­her ope­ra­ting expenses.
  • All Other ope­ra­ting loss was $121 mil­li­on as com­pared to ope­ra­ting los­ses of $93 mil­li­on a year ago and $107 mil­li­on in the pri­or quarter.

2021 Annu­al Results

  • Reve­nue of $16.4 bil­li­on was up 68 per­cent over 2020 dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue in the Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics and Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom segments.
  • Gross mar­gin was 48 per­cent, an increase of more than 3 per­cen­ta­ge points over 2020. Gross mar­gin expan­si­on was dri­ven by a richer mix of EPYC, Rade­on and Ryzen pro­ces­sor sales.
  • Ope­ra­ting inco­me was $3.6 bil­li­on com­pared to $1.4 bil­li­on in the pri­or year. Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me was $4.1 bil­li­on com­pared to $1.7 bil­li­on in the pri­or year. The ope­ra­ting inco­me impro­ve­ment was pri­ma­ri­ly dri­ven by hig­her reve­nue and gross mar­gin expansion.
  • Net inco­me was $3.2 bil­li­on com­pared to $2.5 bil­li­on in the pri­or year, which included a $1.3 bil­li­on inco­me tax bene­fit recor­ded in the fourth quar­ter of 2020. Non-GAAP net inco­me was $3.4 bil­li­on com­pared to $1.6 bil­li­on in the pri­or year.
  • Diluted ear­nings per share was $2.57 com­pared to $2.06 in the pri­or year (which included a $1.07 per share inco­me tax bene­fit). Non-GAAP diluted ear­nings per share was $2.79 com­pared to $1.29 in the pri­or year.
  • Cash, cash equi­va­lents and short-term invest­ments were $3.6 bil­li­on at the end of the year. The com­pa­ny repurcha­sed $1.8 bil­li­on of com­mon stock during 2021.
  • Cash from ope­ra­ti­ons was $3.5 bil­li­on com­pared to $1.1 bil­li­on in the pri­or year. Free cash flow was $3.2 bil­li­on com­pared to $777 mil­li­on in the pri­or year. Annu­al cash from ope­ra­ti­ons and free cash flow in 2021 included stra­te­gic invest­ments in long-term sup­p­ly chain capa­ci­ty to sup­port future reve­nue growth.

Recent PR Highlights

  • AMD announ­ced it recei­ved appr­oval from the Sta­te Admi­nis­tra­ti­on for Mar­ket Regu­la­ti­on (SAMR) of the People’s Repu­blic of Chi­na for the acqui­si­ti­on of Xilinx. AMD anti­ci­pa­tes that the acqui­si­ti­on will clo­se in the first quar­ter of 2022.
  • AMD con­ti­nues to dri­ve strong momen­tum in the data cen­ter with gro­wing adop­ti­on of powerful AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, AMD Instinct™ acce­le­ra­tors and data cen­ter solu­ti­ons with new cus­to­mers and expan­ded cloud offerings. 
    • Lea­ding cloud pro­vi­ders expan­ded their AMD-powered offe­rings with more than 130 new public ins­tances laun­ching in the quar­ter inclu­ding: Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Inc. (AWS) intro­du­ced the new Ama­zon EC2 Hpc6a ins­tances that make high per­for­mance com­pu­ting more acces­si­ble for cus­to­mers with com­pu­te-inten­si­ve workloads and the new gene­ral-pur­po­se Ama­zon EC2 M6a ins­tancesGoog­le Cloud laun­ched mul­ti­ple gene­ral pur­po­se and com­pu­te- and memo­ry-inten­si­ve ins­tances; IBM Cloud laun­ched new bare metal ser­vice offe­rings for deman­ding workloads and solu­ti­ons; and Micro­soft Azu­re announ­ced the latest gene­ra­ti­on of Dasv5 and Easv5 Azu­re Vir­tu­al Machi­nes (VMs) and new con­fi­den­ti­al VMs, DCasv5 and ECasv5.
    • AMD and Meta work­ed tog­e­ther to defi­ne an open, cloud-sca­le, sin­gle-socket ser­ver based on AMD EYPC CPUs for Meta’s newest “North Dome” sys­tems with lea­der­ship per­for­mance-per-watt across major workloads.
    • AMD announ­ced the new AMD Instinct MI200 series acce­le­ra­tors, the fas­test acce­le­ra­tors for HPC and AI appli­ca­ti­ons. The MI200 series acce­le­ra­tors are powe­ring Oak Ridge Natio­nal Laboratory’s Fron­tier super­com­pu­ter, the first Exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ter in the United States.
    • In the latest Top500 list, AMD now powers 73 super­com­pu­ters, a more than 3x increase com­pared to the Novem­ber 2020 list. AMD also powers four out of the top 10 most powerful super­com­pu­ters in the world, as well as the most powerful super­com­pu­ter in EMEA.
    • NVIDIA is adop­ting Ryzen™ Thre­ad­rip­per™ PRO pro­ces­sors to help power next-gene­ra­ti­on cloud gam­ing experiences.
    • AMD announ­ced the AMD Rade­on PRO V620 GPU, deli­ve­ring powerful data cen­ter visu­al per­for­mance for 3D workloads, modern office pro­duc­ti­vi­ty appli­ca­ti­ons and cloud gam­ing, inclu­ding Tencent’s upco­ming cloud gam­ing service.
  • At its 2022 Pro­duct Pre­mie­re event, AMD announ­ced the AMD Ryzen 6000 Series pro­ces­sors, built on the high­ly effi­ci­ent 6nm “Zen 3+” core archi­tec­tu­re, and inclu­ding AMD RDNA™ 2 archi­tec­tu­re-based inte­gra­ted gra­phics to pro­vi­de the fas­test Ryzen mobi­le pro­ces­sor expe­ri­ence ever. AMD expects first sys­tem avai­la­bi­li­ty start­ing in February.
  • AMD announ­ced new updates to its gra­phics pro­ces­sor lin­e­up and soft­ware port­fo­lio, inclu­ding new AMD Rade­on RX 6000M Series and AMD Rade­on RX 6000S Series mobi­le gra­phics for pre­mi­um and thin-and-light gam­ing lap­tops, three new AMD Rade­on RX 6000 Series desk­top gra­phics cards for 1080p gam­ing, and AMD Rade­on Super Reso­lu­ti­on, a new dri­ver-based spa­ti­al ups­ca­ling tech­no­lo­gy available in the upco­ming update to the AMD Soft­ware: Adre­na­lin Edi­ti­on application.
  • AMD deli­ver­ed a first look at its next wave of lea­der­ship data cen­ter and desk­top PC pro­ces­sors which will set the pace of indus­try innovation. 
    • AMD pro­vi­ded a pre­view of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors with AMD 3D V‑Cache™, the “Zen 4” pro­ces­sor core powe­ring the next gene­ra­ti­on of EPYC pro­ces­sors, code­na­med “Gen­oa,” and the new “Zen 4c” pro­ces­sor core, which is desi­gned for cloud nati­ve workloads and will power the EPYC pro­ces­sor code­na­med “Ber­ga­mo.”
    • AMD also announ­ced the first AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors with AMD 3D V‑Cache tech­no­lo­gy to power incre­di­ble gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces and pre­view­ed its Ryzen 7000 Series pro­ces­sors, which will be based on the 5nm “Zen 4” archi­tec­tu­re and are expec­ted to be available in the second half of 2022.
  • AMD was reco­gni­zed on Newsweek’s America’s Most Respon­si­ble Com­pa­nies 2022 list for envi­ron­men­tal, social and cor­po­ra­te gover­nan­ce efforts.

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 the first quar­ter of 2022, AMD expects reve­nue to be appro­xi­m­ate­ly $5.0 bil­li­on, plus or minus $100 mil­li­on, an increase of appro­xi­m­ate­ly 45 per­cent year-over-year and appro­xi­m­ate­ly 4 per­cent quar­ter-over-quar­ter. The year-over-year increase is expec­ted to be dri­ven by growth across all busi­nesses. The quar­ter-over-quar­ter increase is expec­ted to be dri­ven by hig­her ser­ver and cli­ent pro­ces­sor reve­nue. AMD expects non-GAAP gross mar­gin to be appro­xi­m­ate­ly 50.5 per­cent in the first quar­ter of 2022.

For the full year 2022, AMD expects reve­nue to be appro­xi­m­ate­ly $21.5 bil­li­on, an increase of appro­xi­m­ate­ly 31 per­cent over 2021 dri­ven by growth across all busi­nesses. AMD expects non-GAAP gross mar­gin to be appro­xi­m­ate­ly 51 per­cent for 2022.

AMD Tele­con­fe­rence
AMD will hold a con­fe­rence call for the finan­cial com­mu­ni­ty at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) today to dis­cuss its fourth quar­ter and full year 2021 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.

 
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(In mil­li­ons, except per share data) (Unau­di­ted)        
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Sep­tem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
GAAP gross profit   $ 2,426     $ 2,086     $ 1,451     $ 7,929     $ 4,347  
GAAP gross margin %     50 %     48 %     45 %     48 %     45 %
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     1       1       1       5       6  
Non-GAAP gross profit   $ 2,427     $ 2,087     $ 1,452     $ 7,934     $ 4,353  
Non-GAAP gross margin %     50 %     48 %     45 %     48 %     45 %
                     
GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses   $ 1,223     $ 1,141     $ 881     $ 4,293     $ 2,978  
GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses/revenue %     25 %     26 %     27 %     26 %     31 %
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     111       98       78       374       268  
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted costs     9       8       14       42       14  
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses   $ 1,103     $ 1,035     $ 789     $ 3,877     $ 2,696  
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expenses/revenue%     23 %     24 %     24 %     24 %     28 %
                     
GAAP ope­ra­ting income   $ 1,207     $ 948     $ 570     $ 3,648     $ 1,369  
GAAP ope­ra­ting margin %     25 %     22 %     18 %     22 %     14 %
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     112       99       79       379       274  
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted costs     9       8       14       42       14  
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting income   $ 1,328     $ 1,055     $ 663     $ 4,069     $ 1,657  
Non-GAAP ope­ra­ting margin %     27 %     24 %     20 %     25 %     17 %

 

    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Sep­tem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
GAAP net inco­me / ear­nings per share   $ 974     $ 0.80     $ 923     $ 0.75     $ 1,781     $ 1.45     $ 3,162     $ 2.57     $ 2,490     $ 2.06  
Loss on debt redemption/conversion                             16       0.01       7             54       0.04  
(Gains) los­ses on equi­ty invest­ments, net     (4 )           (60 )     (0.05 )                 (56 )     (0.04 )            
Non-cash inte­rest expen­se rela­ted to con­ver­ti­ble debt                                                     6        
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     112       0.09       99       0.08       79       0.06       379       0.31       274       0.22  
Equi­ty inco­me in investee                 (2 )           (3 )           (6 )           (5 )      
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted costs     9             8       0.01       14       0.01       42       0.03       14       0.01  
Release of valua­ti­on allo­wan­ce on defer­red tax assets                             (1,301 )     (1.06 )                 (1,301 )     (1.07 )
Inco­me tax provision     31       0.03       (75 )     (0.06 )     50       0.05       (93 )     (0.08 )     43       0.03  
Non-GAAP net inco­me / ear­nings per share   $ 1,122     $ 0.92     $ 893     $ 0.73     $ 636     $ 0.52     $ 3,435     $ 2.79     $ 1,575     $ 1.29  
                                         
Shares used and net inco­me adjus­t­ment in ear­nings per share cal­cu­la­ti­on (1)                                        
Shares used in per share cal­cu­la­ti­on (GAAP)     1,222       1,230       1,226       1,229       1,207  
Inte­rest expen­se add-back to GAAP net income   $     $     $     $     $ 1  
Shares used in per share cal­cu­la­ti­on (Non-GAAP)     1,222       1,230       1,232       1,229       1,228  
Inte­rest expen­se add-back to Non-GAAP net income   $     $     $     $     $ 4  

 

(1)   For the three months ended Decem­ber 26, 2020, GAAP diluted EPS cal­cu­la­ti­ons include 3 mil­li­on shares rela­ted to the assu­med con­ver­si­on of the Company’s 2026 Con­ver­ti­ble Notes and the asso­cia­ted $0 mil­li­on inte­rest expen­se add-back to net inco­me under the “if con­ver­ted” method.

For the year ended Decem­ber 26, 2020, GAAP diluted EPS cal­cu­la­ti­ons include 3 mil­li­on shares rela­ted to the assu­med con­ver­si­on of the Company’s 2026 Con­ver­ti­ble Notes and the asso­cia­ted $1 mil­li­on inte­rest expen­se add-back to net inco­me under the “if con­ver­ted” method.

For the three months ended Decem­ber 26, 2020, Non-GAAP diluted EPS cal­cu­la­ti­ons include 9 mil­li­on shares rela­ted to the assu­med con­ver­si­on of the Company’s 2026 Con­ver­ti­ble Notes and the asso­cia­ted $0 mil­li­on add-back to net inco­me under the “if con­ver­ted” method.

For the year ended Decem­ber 26, 2020. Non-GAAP diluted EPS cal­cu­la­ti­ons include 24 mil­li­on shares rela­ted to the assu­med con­ver­si­on of the Company’s 2026 Con­ver­ti­ble Notes and the asso­cia­ted $4 mil­li­on inte­rest expen­se add-back to net inco­me under the “if con­ver­ted” method.

     

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For more than 50 years, AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies — the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms and the data cen­ter. 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: AMDweb­siteblogFace­book and Twit­ter pages.

Cau­tio­na­ry Statement

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, per­for­mance, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD pro­ducts; AMD’s expec­ted first quar­ter 2022 and fis­cal 2022 finan­cial out­look, inclu­ding reve­nue and non-GAAP gross mar­gin and expec­ted dri­vers based on cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons; expec­ted growth in 2022; and the expec­ted timing of the clo­se of the Xilinx, Inc. tran­sac­tion, 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 press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release 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’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty; loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer; impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic on AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold; mar­ket con­di­ti­ons of the indus­tries in which AMD pro­ducts are sold; cycli­cal natu­re of the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try; quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; AMD’s abili­ty to ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions; abili­ty of third par­ty manu­fac­tu­r­ers to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies; avai­la­bi­li­ty of essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als, sub­stra­tes or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses; abili­ty to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with expec­ted fea­tures and per­for­mance levels; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty inci­dents inclu­ding IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents; AMD’s reli­ance on Micro­soft and other soft­ware ven­dors’ sup­port to design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board part­ners; impact of modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of AMD’s inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems; com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of AMD’s pro­ducts with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts; effi­ci­en­cy of AMD’s sup­p­ly chain; AMD’s abili­ty to rely on third par­ty sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions; AMD’s abili­ty to effec­tively con­trol sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket; impact of govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res; AMD’s abili­ty to rea­li­ze its defer­red tax assets; poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; cur­rent and future claims and liti­ga­ti­on; impact of envi­ron­men­tal laws, con­flict mine­rals-rela­ted pro­vi­si­ons and other laws or regu­la­ti­ons; impact of acqui­si­ti­ons, joint ven­tures and/or invest­ments on AMD’s busi­ness, inclu­ding the announ­ced acqui­si­ti­on of Xilinx, and abili­ty to inte­gra­te acqui­red busi­nesses; AMD’s abili­ty to com­ple­te the Xilinx mer­ger; impact of the announce­ment and pen­den­cy of the Xilinx mer­ger on AMD’s busi­ness; impact of any impair­ment of the com­bi­ned company’s assets on the com­bi­ned company’s finan­cial posi­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­on; rest­ric­tions impo­sed by agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the revol­ving cre­dit faci­li­ty; AMD’s indeb­ted­ness; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments or gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow to make all of its plan­ned R&D or stra­te­gic invest­ments; poli­ti­cal, legal, eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters; future impairm­ents of good­will and tech­no­lo­gy licen­se purcha­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel; AMD’s stock pri­ce vola­ti­li­ty; and world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons. 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 most recent reports on Forms 10‑K and 10‑Q.

(*) In this ear­nings press release, in addi­ti­on to GAAP finan­cial results, AMD has pro­vi­ded non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res inclu­ding non-GAAP gross pro­fit, non-GAAP ope­ra­ting expen­ses, non-GAAP ope­ra­ting inco­me, non-GAAP net inco­me and non-GAAP ear­nings per share. AMD uses a nor­ma­li­zed tax rate in its com­pu­ta­ti­on of the non-GAAP inco­me tax pro­vi­si­on to pro­vi­de bet­ter con­sis­ten­cy across the report­ing peri­ods. For fis­cal 2021, AMD uses a non-GAAP tax rate of 15%, which excludes the tax impact of pre-tax non-GAAP adjus­t­ments. AMD also pro­vi­ded adjus­ted EBITDA and free cash flow as sup­ple­men­tal non-GAAP 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 foot­no­tes to the sel­ec­ted data tables. The non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res dis­c­lo­sed in this ear­nings press release should be view­ed in addi­ti­on to and not as a sub­sti­tu­te for or supe­ri­or to AMD’s repor­ted results pre­pared in accordance with GAAP and should be read only in con­junc­tion with AMD’s Con­so­li­da­ted Finan­cial State­ments pre­pared in accordance with GAAP. The­se non-GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res refe­ren­ced are recon­ci­led to their most direct­ly com­pa­ra­ble GAAP finan­cial mea­su­res in the data tables at the end of this ear­nings press release. This ear­nings press release also con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king non-GAAP gross mar­gin con­cer­ning AMD’s finan­cial out­look, which is based on cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons as of Febru­ary 1, 2022 and assump­ti­ons and beliefs that invol­ve num­e­rous risks and uncer­tain­ties. AMD under­ta­kes no intent or obli­ga­ti­on to publicly update or revi­se its out­look state­ments as a result of new infor­ma­ti­on, future events or other­wi­se, except as may be requi­red by law.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, EPYC, Rade­on, Ryzen, Instinct, Thre­ad­rip­per and com­bi­na­ti­ons the­reof, are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for infor­ma­tio­nal pur­po­ses only and used to iden­ti­fy com­pa­nies and pro­ducts and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owner.

 
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Mil­li­ons except per share amounts and per­cen­ta­ges) (Unau­di­ted)
         
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Sep­tem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
Net reve­nue   $ 4,826     $ 4,313     $ 3,244     $ 16,434     $ 9,763  
Cost of sales     2,400       2,227       1,793       8,505       5,416  
Gross pro­fit     2,426       2,086       1,451       7,929       4,347  
Gross mar­gin %     50 %     48 %     45 %     48 %     45 %
Rese­arch and development     811       765       573       2,845       1,983  
Mar­ke­ting, gene­ral and administrative     412       376       308       1,448       995  
Licen­sing gain     (4 )     (3 )           (12 )      
Ope­ra­ting income     1,207       948       570       3,648       1,369  
Inte­rest expense     (8 )     (7 )     (9 )     (34 )     (47 )
Other inco­me (expen­se), net     4       62       (15 )     55       (47 )
Inco­me befo­re inco­me taxes and equi­ty income     1,203       1,003       546       3,669       1,275  
Inco­me tax provision     229       82       (1,232 )     513       (1,210 )
Equi­ty inco­me in investee           2       3       6       5  
Net Inco­me   $ 974     $ 923     $ 1,781     $ 3,162     $ 2,490  
Ear­nings per share                    
Basic   $ 0.81     $ 0.76     $ 1.48     $ 2.61     $ 2.10  
Diluted   $ 0.80     $ 0.75     $ 1.45     $ 2.57     $ 2.06  
Shares used in per share calculation                    
Basic     1,208       1,214       1,205       1,213       1,184  
Diluted     1,222       1,230       1,226       1,229       1,207  
                                         

 

 
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Mil­li­ons) (Unau­di­ted)
         
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
ASSETS        
Cur­rent assets:        
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 2,535     $ 1,595  
Short-term invest­ments     1,073       695  
Accounts receiva­ble, net     2,706       2,066  
Invent­ories     1,955       1,399  
Receiv­a­bles from rela­ted parties     2       10  
Pre­paid expen­ses and other cur­rent assets     312       378  
Total cur­rent assets     8,583       6,143  
Pro­per­ty and equip­ment, net     702       641  
Ope­ra­ting lea­se right-of-use assets     367       208  
Good­will     289       289  
Invest­ment: equi­ty method     69       63  
Defer­red tax assets     931       1,245  
Other non-cur­rent assets     1,478       373  
Total Assets   $ 12,419     $ 8,962  
         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERSEQUITY        
Cur­rent liabilities:        
Accounts paya­ble     1,321       468  
Paya­bles to rela­ted parties     85       78  
Accrued lia­bi­li­ties     2,424       1,796  
Short-term debt     312        
Other cur­rent liabilities     98       75  
Total cur­rent liabilities     4,240       2,417  
Long-term debt, net     1       330  
Long-term ope­ra­ting lea­se liabilities     348       201  
Other long-term liabilities     333       177  
         
Stock­hol­ders’ equity:        
Capi­tal stock:        
Com­mon stock, par value     12       12  
Addi­tio­nal paid-in capital     11,069       10,544  
Tre­asu­ry stock, at cost     (2,130 )     (131 )
Accu­mu­la­ted defi­cit(1)     (1,451 )     (4,605 )
Accu­mu­la­ted other com­pre­hen­si­ve income     (3 )     17  
Total stock­hol­ders’ equity   $ 7,497     $ 5,837  
Total Lia­bi­li­ties and Stock­hol­ders’ equity   $ 12,419     $ 8,962  

 

(1)   During the first quar­ter of 2021, the Com­pa­ny adopted ASU 2019-12, Inco­me Taxes (Topic 740): Sim­pli­fy­ing the Accoun­ting for Inco­me Taxes, using the modi­fied retro­s­pec­ti­ve adop­ti­on method, which resul­ted in $8 mil­li­on of defer­red tax lia­bi­li­ty asso­cia­ted with book-tax dif­fe­ren­ces in a for­eign equi­ty method invest­ment reco­gni­zed in Accu­mu­la­ted deficit.
     

 

 
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
SELECTED CASH FLOW INFORMATION
(Mil­li­ons) (Unau­di­ted)
         
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Sep­tem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
Net cash pro­vi­ded by (used in)                    
Ope­ra­ting activities   $ 822     $ 849     $ 554     $ 3,521     $ 1,071  
Inves­t­ing activities   $     $ (83 )   $ (294 )   $ (686 )   $ (952 )
Finan­cing activities   $ (727 )   $ (949 )   $ 35     $ (1,895 )   $ 6  
                                         

 

 
SELECTED CORPORATE DATA
(Mil­li­ons) (Unau­di­ted)
         
    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Sep­tem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
Seg­ment and Cate­go­ry Information                    
Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics(1)                    
Net reve­nue   $ 2,584     $ 2,398     $ 1,960     $ 9,332     $ 6,432  
Ope­ra­ting income   $ 566     $ 513     $ 420     $ 2,090     $ 1,266  
Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom(2)                    
Net reve­nue   $ 2,242     $ 1,915     $ 1,284     $ 7,102     $ 3,331  
Ope­ra­ting income   $ 762     $ 542     $ 243     $ 1,979     $ 391  
All Other(3)                    
Net reve­nue   $     $     $     $     $  
Ope­ra­ting loss   $ (121 )   $ (107 )   $ (93 )   $ (421 )   $ (288 )
Total                    
Net reve­nue   $ 4,826     $ 4,313     $ 3,244     $ 16,434     $ 9,763  
Ope­ra­ting income   $ 1,207     $ 948     $ 570     $ 3,648     $ 1,369  
                     
                     
Other Data                    
Capi­tal expenditures   $ 86     $ 85     $ 74     $ 301     $ 294  
Adjus­ted EBITDA(4)   $ 1,446     $ 1,152     $ 753     $ 4,476     $ 1,969  
Cash, cash equi­va­lents and short-term investments   $ 3,608     $ 3,608     $ 2,290     $ 3,608     $ 2,290  
Free cash flow(5)   $ 736     $ 764     $ 480     $ 3,220     $ 777  
Total assets   $ 12,419     $ 11,153     $ 8,962     $ 12,419     $ 8,962  
Total debt   $ 313     $ 313     $ 330     $ 313     $ 330  

 

(1)   The Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics seg­ment, which pri­ma­ri­ly includes desk­top and note­book pro­ces­sors and chip­sets, dis­crete and inte­gra­ted gra­phics pro­ces­sing units (GPUs), data cen­ter and pro­fes­sio­nal GPUs and deve­lo­p­ment ser­vices. From time to time, the Com­pa­ny may also sell or licen­se por­ti­ons of its IP portfolio.
   
(2)   The Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom seg­ment, which pri­ma­ri­ly includes ser­ver and embedded pro­ces­sors, semi-cus­tom Sys­tem-on-Chip (SoC) pro­ducts, deve­lo­p­ment ser­vices and tech­no­lo­gy for game con­so­les. From time to time, the Com­pa­ny may also sell or licen­se por­ti­ons of its IP portfolio.
   
(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 is stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on expen­se and acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted costs.
   
(4)   Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP Net Inco­me to Adjus­ted EBITDA*

 

    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Sep­tem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
GAAP net income   $ 974     $ 923     $ 1,781     $ 3,162     $ 2,490  
Inte­rest expense     8       7       9       34       47  
Other (inco­me) expen­se, net     (4 )     (62 )     15       (55 )     47  
Inco­me tax pro­vi­si­on (bene­fit)     229       82       (1,232 )     513       (1,210 )
Equi­ty inco­me in investee           (2 )     (3 )     (6 )     (5 )
Stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on     112       99       79       379       274  
Depre­cia­ti­on and amortization     118       97       90       407       312  
Acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted costs     9       8       14       42       14  
Adjus­ted EBITDA   $ 1,446     $ 1,152     $ 753     $ 4,476     $ 1,969  

 

(5)   Recon­ci­lia­ti­on of GAAP Net Cash Pro­vi­ded by Ope­ra­ting Acti­vi­ties to Free Cash Flow**

 

    Three Months Ended   Year Ended
    Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Sep­tem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
  Decem­ber 25,
2021
  Decem­ber 26,
2020
GAAP net cash pro­vi­ded by ope­ra­ting activities   $ 822     $ 849     $ 554     $ 3,521     $ 1,071  
Ope­ra­ting cash flow margin %     17 %     20 %     17 %     21 %     11 %
Purcha­ses of pro­per­ty and equipment     (86 )     (85 )     (74 )     (301 )     (294 )
Free cash flow   $ 736     $ 764     $ 480     $ 3,220     $ 777  
Free cash flow margin %     15 %     18 %     15 %     20 %     8 %

 

*   The Com­pa­ny pres­ents “Adjus­ted EBITDA” as a sup­ple­men­tal mea­su­re of its per­for­mance. Adjus­ted EBITDA for the Com­pa­ny is deter­mi­ned by adjus­ting GAAP net inco­me for inte­rest expen­se, other inco­me (expen­se), net, inco­me tax pro­vi­si­on, equi­ty inco­me in inves­tee, stock-based com­pen­sa­ti­on, and depre­cia­ti­on and amor­tiza­ti­on expen­se. The Com­pa­ny also included acqui­si­ti­on-rela­ted cos­ts for the three months ended Decem­ber 25, 2021, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2021 and Decem­ber 26, 2020, and for the year ended Decem­ber 25, 2021 and Decem­ber 26, 2020. The Com­pa­ny cal­cu­la­tes and pres­ents Adjus­ted EBITDA becau­se 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 inco­me 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 that can affect cash flows.
     
**   The Com­pa­ny also pres­ents free cash flow as a sup­ple­men­tal Non-GAAP mea­su­re of its per­for­mance. Free cash flow is deter­mi­ned by adjus­ting GAAP net cash pro­vi­ded by ope­ra­ting acti­vi­ties for capi­tal expen­dit­ures. The Com­pa­ny cal­cu­la­tes and com­mu­ni­ca­tes free cash flow in the finan­cial ear­nings press release becau­se manage­ment belie­ves it is of importance to inves­tors to under­stand the natu­re of the­se cash flows. The Company’s cal­cu­la­ti­on of 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 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.