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GlobalFoundries Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results

Record Reve­nue, Gross, and Ope­ra­ting Margins

MALTA, N.Y., Feb. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Glo­bal­Found­ries Inc. (GF) (Nasdaq: GFS) today announ­ced preli­mi­na­ry finan­cial results for the fourth quar­ter and fis­cal year ended Decem­ber 31, 2021.

Key Fourth Quar­ter Finan­cial Highlights

  • Record reve­nue of $1.85 bil­li­on, up 9% sequentially.
  • Record gross mar­gin of 20.8% and adjus­ted gross mar­gin of 21.5%.
  • Record ope­ra­ting mar­gin of 5% and adjus­ted ope­ra­ting mar­gin of 8%.
  • Net inco­me mar­gin of 2% and adjus­ted EBITDA mar­gin of 32%.
  • Cash and cash equi­va­lents of $2.9 billion.

Key Full Year 2021 Finan­cial Highlights

  • Reve­nue of $6.6 bil­li­on, up 36% year-over-year.
  • Record gross mar­gin of 15% and adjus­ted gross mar­gin of 16%.
  • Net inco­me mar­gin of ‑4% and adjus­ted EBITDA mar­gin of 28%.

2021 was an out­stan­ding year for GF, during which we dro­ve an acce­le­ra­ti­on of our busi­ness plan by capi­ta­li­zing on the demand for per­va­si­ve semi­con­duc­tor solu­ti­ons and the vital role we play in the semi­con­duc­tor sup­p­ly chain,” said Tom Caul­field, CEO of GF. “Our reve­nue grew 36% year-over-year, and we made signi­fi­cant pro­gress towards our long-term finan­cial pro­fit model. The year was also mark­ed by a gro­wing num­ber of long-term part­ner­ship agree­ments, with 30 cus­to­mers com­mit­ting more than $3.2 bil­li­on toward the con­tin­ued expan­si­on of our glo­bal manu­fac­tu­ring foot­print to sup­port strong demand. We are exe­cu­ting well, and belie­ve we are on track to deli­ver ano­ther year of strong growth in reve­nue and pro­fi­ta­bi­li­ty in 2022.”

Major 2021 Accom­plish­ments and Key Fourth Quar­ter Busi­ness Highlights:

(…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Announce Termination of NVIDIA’s Acquisition of Arm Limited

Soft­Bank to Explo­re Arm Public Offering

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and TOKYO – Feb. 7, 2022 – NVIDIA and Soft­Bank Group Corp. (“SBG” or “Soft­Bank”) today announ­ced the ter­mi­na­ti­on of the pre­vious­ly announ­ced tran­sac­tion wher­eby NVIDIA would acqui­re Arm Limi­t­ed (“Arm”) from SBG. The par­ties agreed to ter­mi­na­te the Agree­ment becau­se of signi­fi­cant regu­la­to­ry chal­lenges pre­ven­ting the con­sum­ma­ti­on of the tran­sac­tion, despi­te good faith efforts by the par­ties. Arm will now start pre­pa­ra­ti­ons for a public offe­ring. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Mitarbeiterzahl bei AMD steigt auf 15.500 — über 2.500 Stellen unbesetzt

Laut aktu­el­lem SEC-Fil­ing hat AMD Ende 2021 etwa 15.500 Mit­ar­bei­ter beschäf­tigt. Damit stieg die Mit­ar­bei­ter­an­zahl inner­halb eines Jah­res im Ver­gleich zu Ende 2020 um 2.900 Per­so­nen oder fast 25 Pro­zent. Aktu­ell schreibt AMD welt­weit aber zusätz­lich noch 2.535 offe­ne Stel­len aus. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.2.1

Die neu­es­te Ver­si­on der Rade­on Soft­ware Adre­na­lin — also des Trei­bers für AMD-Gra­fik­kar­ten — ist für Win­dows 10 und Win­dows 11 erschie­nen. Die Ver­si­on 22.2.1 unter­stützt die Spie­le “Dying Light 2” und “Lost Ark” sowie die Com­pu­ter­gra­fik-API Vul­kan in der Ver­si­on 1.3.

Zusätz­lich wur­de noch ein Feh­ler bei Rade­on RX 6700 XT Kar­ten im Spiel “Fort­ni­te” besei­tigt. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

LibreOffice 7.3.0 (Community)

Libre­Of­fice ist ein kos­ten­lo­ses, leis­tungs­star­kes Office-Paket, und ein Nach­fol­ger von OpenOffice(.org). Sei­ne kla­re Ober­flä­che und sei­ne mäch­ti­gen Werk­zeu­ge las­sen Sie Ihre Krea­ti­vi­tät ent­fal­ten und Ihre Pro­duk­ti­vi­tät stei­gern. Libre­Of­fice ver­eint meh­re­re Anwen­dun­gen, was es zum über­zeu­gends­ten frei­en und quell­of­fe­nen Office-Paket auf dem Markt macht: Wri­ter, die Text­ver­ar­bei­tung, Calc die Tabel­len­kal­ku­la­ti­on, Impress, das Prä­sen­ta­ti­ons­pro­gramm, Draw das Zei­chen­pro­gramm, Base die Daten­bank­ver­wal­tung und Math der For­me­l­edi­tor. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Quartalszahlen Q4/2021: Fast 5 Milliarden Umsatz

Im vier­ten Quar­tal 2021 hat AMD einen Umsatz von 4,826 Mil­li­ar­den US-Dol­lar erzielt und dabei einen Net­to­ge­winn von 974 Mil­lio­nen US-Dol­lar erwirt­schaf­tet. Der Gewinn pro Aktie lag bei 0,80 US-Dol­lar (Alle Zah­len nach GAAP). Erwar­tet hat­te AMD einen Umsatz von 4,5 Mil­li­ar­den US-Dol­lar (+/-  100 Millionen).

Gegen­über dem Vor­jah­res­quar­tal stieg der Umsatz um 49 Pro­zent, im Ver­gleich zum vor­her­ge­hen­den Quar­tal betrug der Anstieg 12 Pro­zent. Die Brut­to­mar­ge lag bei 50 Pro­zent. Im gesam­ten Jahr 2021 hat AMD einen Umsatz­zu­wachs von 68 Pro­zent erzielt, nach­dem man Anfang 2021 noch von einem Zuwachs von “ledig­lich” 50 Pro­zent aus­ging. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

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

(…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Übernahme von Xilinx durch AMD vor Vollzug

Bereits in der letz­ten Woche hat mit der chi­ne­si­schen Sta­te Admi­nis­tra­ti­on for Mar­ket Regu­la­ti­on (SAMR) die letz­te Regu­lie­rungs­be­hör­de unter Auf­la­gen der Über­nah­me von Xilinx durch AMD zuge­stimmt. Nun ste­hen dem Voll­zug nur noch tech­ni­sche Regu­la­ri­en ent­ge­gen, so dass die Über­nah­me aller Vor­aus­sicht nach spä­tes­tens nach Ablauf des 9. Febru­ars geneh­migt wird. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Ryzen 9 5900 im B2-Stepping aufgetaucht

AMD höchst selbst hat­te das neue B2-Step­ping des Zen 3 bereits im Mai 2021 ange­kün­digt. Eini­ge Mona­te spä­ter waren BIOS-Sup­port-Lis­ten bei diver­sen Main­board-Her­stel­lern auf­ge­taucht, die neue Model­le wie den Ryzen 7 5800 (ohne X) mit B2-Step­ping führ­ten und bestä­tig­ten, dass das neue Step­ping kei­ne neue BIOS-Ver­si­on vor­aus­setzt. Auch sie­ben Mona­te nach der Ankün­di­gung hat­te bis­her aber nie­mand einen Ryzen mit B2-Step­ping in frei­er Wild­bahn gese­hen. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Xilinx Reports Record Revenue of $1.01 Billion in Fiscal Third Quarter

  • Record reve­nue of $1,011 mil­li­on, repre­sen­ting 8% sequen­ti­al growth and 26% year-over-year growth, despi­te ongo­ing indus­try-wide sup­p­ly constraints
  • Data Cen­ter Group (DCG) achie­ved record reve­nue with sequen­ti­al growth of 28% and 81% year-over-year, dri­ven by Com­pu­te and Net­wor­king strength
  • Aero­space & Defen­se, Indus­tri­al and Test, Mea­su­re­ment & Emu­la­ti­on (AIT) reve­nue was also a record, incre­asing 21% sequen­ti­al­ly and 28% year-over-year, dri­ven by record A&D reve­nue and con­tin­ued strength in ISM and TME end markets
  • Auto­mo­ti­ve, Broad­cast and Con­su­mer (ABC) reve­nue in the quar­ter decreased 4% sequen­ti­al­ly coming off a record Q2 and lar­ge­ly in-line with expec­ta­ti­ons; reve­nue increased 28% year-over-year
  • Wired and Wire­less Group (WWG) reve­nue decreased 18% sequen­ti­al­ly and increased 1% year-over-year as sup­p­ly cons­traints had a signi­fi­cant impact on busi­ness in the quarter
  • Plat­form trans­for­ma­ti­on con­ti­nues with total Adap­ti­ve SoC reve­nue, which includes Zynq and Ver­sal plat­forms, up 5% sequen­ti­al­ly and 30% year-over-year, and repre­sen­ting 28% of total revenue

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 26, 2022– Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), the lea­der in adap­ti­ve com­pu­ting, today announ­ced record reve­nues of $1,011 mil­li­on for the fis­cal third quar­ter, up 8% over the pre­vious quarter.

GAAP net inco­me for the fis­cal third quar­ter was $300 mil­li­on, or $1.19 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net inco­me for the quar­ter was $325 mil­li­on, or $1.29 per diluted share.

As per­mit­ted by the terms of the Mer­ger Agree­ment bet­ween Xilinx and Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), the Xilinx Board of Direc­tors voted unani­mously to decla­re a cash divi­dend of $0.37 per out­stan­ding share of com­mon stock paya­ble on Febru­ary 14, 2022 to all stock­hol­ders of record at the clo­se of busi­ness on Febru­ary 7, 2022. The divi­dend is con­di­tio­ned upon and will only be paya­ble if the mer­ger has not clo­sed on or befo­re the record date for such divi­dend. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2021 Financial Results

Deli­vers Record Quar­ter­ly and Full-Year Revenue

News Sum­ma­ry

▪       Fourth-quar­ter GAAP reve­nue was $20.5 bil­li­on, excee­ding Octo­ber gui­dance by $1.3 bil­li­on and up 3 per­cent year-over-year (YoY). Fourth-quar­ter non-GAAP reve­nue was $19.5 bil­li­on, excee­ding Octo­ber gui­dance by $1.2 bil­li­on. Full-year GAAP reve­nue set an all-time Intel record of $79.0 bil­li­on, up 1 per­cent YoY.

▪       Deli­ver­ed GAAP fourth-quar­ter ear­nings per share (EPS) of $1.13, excee­ding Octo­ber gui­dance by 35 cents. Fourth-quar­ter non-GAAP EPS was $1.09, excee­ding Octo­ber gui­dance by 19 cents.

▪       In 2021, Intel gene­ra­ted $30.0 bil­li­on of cash from ope­ra­ti­ons and $11.3 bil­li­on of free cash flow (FCF).

▪       Fore­cas­ting first-quar­ter 2022 reve­nue of appro­xi­m­ate­ly $18.3 bil­li­on; expec­ting first-quar­ter EPS of $0.70 (non-GAAP EPS of $0.80).

▪       Announ­ces five per­cent increase to quar­ter­ly cash dividend.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Janu­ary 26, 2022 — Intel Cor­po­ra­ti­on today repor­ted fourth-quar­ter and full-year 2021 finan­cial results. The com­pa­ny also announ­ced that its board of direc­tors appro­ved a cash divi­dend increase of five per­cent to $1.46 per share on an annu­al basis. The board declared a quar­ter­ly divi­dend of $0.365 per share on the company’s com­mon stock, which will be paya­ble on March 1 to share­hol­ders of record as of Febru­ary 7.

Q4 repre­sen­ted a gre­at finish to a gre­at year. We excee­ded top-line quar­ter­ly gui­dance by over $1 bil­li­on and deli­ver­ed the best quar­ter­ly and full-year reve­nue in the company’s histo­ry,” said Pat Gel­sin­ger, Intel CEO. “Our disci­pli­ned focus on exe­cu­ti­on across tech­no­lo­gy deve­lo­p­ment, manu­fac­tu­ring, and our tra­di­tio­nal and emer­ging busi­nesses is reflec­ted in our results. We remain com­mit­ted to dri­ving long-term, sus­tainable growth as we relent­less­ly exe­cu­te our IDM 2.0 stra­tegy.” (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.1.2

Die neu­es­te Ver­si­on der Rade­on Soft­ware Adre­na­lin — also des Trei­bers für AMD-Gra­fik­kar­ten — ist für Win­dows 10 und Win­dows 11 erschie­nen. Die Ver­si­on 22.1.2 unter­stützt das Spiel “Tom Clancy’s Rain­bow Six Extra­c­tion” sowie die neu­en Desk­top­gra­fik­chips AMD Rade­on RX 6500 XT und Rade­on RX 6400 (OEM only) und die mobi­len Gra­fik­chips AMD Rade­on RX 6500M und Rade­on RX 6300M.

Zusätz­lich wur­de noch ein Feh­ler im Spiel “Bor­der­lands 3” beseitigt.

Den Down­load­link, sowie die kom­plet­ten Release Notes fin­det Ihr in unse­rem Downloadbereich:

Für älte­re Gra­fik­kar­ten die nicht mehr unter­stützt wer­den und für den letz­ten Win­dows-7-Trei­ber fin­det ihr hier die Ver­si­on 21.5.1:

(…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Samsung Introduces Game Changing Exynos 2200 Processor With Xclipse GPU Powered By AMD RDNA 2 Architecture

The new pre­mi­um mobi­le pro­ces­sor comes with hard­ware-acce­le­ra­ted ray tra­cing and sta­te of the art Arm-based pro­ces­sing technology

Sam­sung Elec­tro­nics, a world lea­der in advan­ced semi­con­duc­tor tech­no­lo­gy, today announ­ced its new pre­mi­um mobi­le pro­ces­sor, the Exy­nos 2200. The Exy­nos 2200 is a fresh­ly desi­gned mobi­le pro­ces­sor with a powerful AMD RDNA 2 archi­tec­tu­re based Sam­sung Xclip­se gra­phics pro­ces­sing unit (GPU). With the most cut­ting-edge Arm®-based CPU cores available in the mar­ket today and an upgraded neu­ral pro­ces­sing unit (NPU), the Exy­nos 2200 will enable the ulti­ma­te mobi­le pho­ne gam­ing expe­ri­ence, as well as enhan­cing the over­all expe­ri­ence in social media apps and photography.

Built on the most advan­ced 4‑nanometer (nm) EUV (extre­me ultra­vio­let litho­gra­phy) pro­cess, and com­bi­ned with cut­ting-edge mobi­le, GPU and NPU tech­no­lo­gy, Sam­sung has craf­ted the Exy­nos 2200 to pro­vi­de the finest expe­ri­ence for smart­phone users. With the Xclip­se, our new mobi­le GPU built with RDNA 2 gra­phics tech­no­lo­gy from the indus­try lea­der AMD, the Exy­nos 2200 will rede­fi­ne mobi­le gam­ing expe­ri­ence, aided by enhan­ced gra­phics and AI per­for­mance,” said Yon­gin Park, Pre­si­dent of Sys­tem LSI Busi­ness at Sam­sung Elec­tro­nics. “As well as brin­ging the best mobi­le expe­ri­ence to the users, Sam­sung will con­ti­nue its efforts to lead the jour­ney in logic chip inno­va­ti­on.” (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

LibreOffice 7.2.5 (Community)

Libre­Of­fice ist ein kos­ten­lo­ses, leis­tungs­star­kes Office-Paket, und ein Nach­fol­ger von OpenOffice(.org). Sei­ne kla­re Ober­flä­che und sei­ne mäch­ti­gen Werk­zeu­ge las­sen Sie Ihre Krea­ti­vi­tät ent­fal­ten und Ihre Pro­duk­ti­vi­tät stei­gern. Libre­Of­fice ver­eint meh­re­re Anwen­dun­gen, was es zum über­zeu­gends­ten frei­en und quell­of­fe­nen Office-Paket auf dem Markt macht: Wri­ter, die Text­ver­ar­bei­tung, Calc die Tabel­len­kal­ku­la­ti­on, Impress, das Prä­sen­ta­ti­ons­pro­gramm, Draw das Zei­chen­pro­gramm, Base die Daten­bank­ver­wal­tung und Math der For­me­l­edi­tor. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

TSMC Reports Fourth Quarter EPS of NT$6.41

Hsin­chu, Tai­wan, R.O.C., Janu­ary 13, 2022 — TSMC today announ­ced con­so­li­da­ted reve­nue of
NT$438.19 bil­li­on, net inco­me of NT$166.23 bil­li­on, and diluted ear­nings per share of NT$6.41
(US$1.15 per ADR unit) for the fourth quar­ter ended Decem­ber 31, 2021.

Year-over-year, fourth quar­ter reve­nue increased 21.2% while net inco­me and diluted EPS both
increased 16.4%. Com­pared to third quar­ter 2021, fourth quar­ter results repre­sen­ted a 5.7%
increase in reve­nue and a 6.4% increase in net inco­me. All figu­res were pre­pared in accordance
with TIFRS on a con­so­li­da­ted basis.

In US dol­lars, fourth quar­ter reve­nue was $15.74 bil­li­on, which increased 24.1% year-over-year and
increased 5.8% from the pre­vious quar­ter. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »