AMD - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

NasdaqGS - NasdaqGS Real Time Price. Currency in USD
23.68
+0.55 (+2.38%)
At close: 4:00PM EST
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Previous Close23.13
Open23.58
Bid23.72 x 1800
Ask23.74 x 2200
Day's Range23.20 - 24.05
52 Week Range9.04 - 34.14
Volume78,644,109
Avg. Volume98,411,309
Market Cap23.806B
Beta (3Y Monthly)4.21
PE Ratio (TTM)74.00
EPS (TTM)0.32
Earnings DateApr 23, 2019 - Apr 29, 2019
Forward Dividend & YieldN/A (N/A)
Ex-Dividend Date1995-04-27
1y Target Est24.52
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Data center operators love its low cost and flexibility, which have become critical within the fast-moving and ever-changing arena.It's a sweet spot for Advanced Micro Devices' Epyc chip, a processor built from the ground up to effectively work in a hyperscale cloud computing environment even before the idea has fully gelled. Epyc Ideal for HyperscalingThe company's first Epyc microprocessor, a CPU designed with server networks and data systems in mind was released in mid-2017.The rival Xeon series from Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) was getting a bit long in the tooth at the time, and the marketplace was ready for an upgrade. The early editions of the Epyc CPU were reasonably well received.Its early success, however, was only a prelude to what was in store.That success would be tough to measure given the data so far. Near the end of last year is was estimated that AMD only controlled 2% of the server chip market. The rest of it remained hogged by Intel.That 2%, however, is up from 0% a year and a half earlier, and stolen from the king of data center hardware in a market where customers are slow to make purchasing decisions, and slow to switch providers.The company, to the delight of AMD stock owners, is talking about capturing 5% of that market in the foreseeable future.The upcoming launch of the 'Rome' version of its Epyc chip (tech companies assign code names to everything, though they're rarely a secret) may well get Advanced Micro Devices over that hump.It will fit and work in the same boards that used earlier versions of the processor, but will introduce the oft-discussed 7 nanometer leap and up to 64 cores to the mix.In plain English, it will arguably be the most powerful data center chip on the market, and at a very low-cost in terms of cost-per-capacity.It's also the chip that could finally convince technology companies hyperscaling is worth the switching cost and effort. 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