AMD: the first 7nm Navi GPU will be cheaper than the Radeon VII
The first 7nm Navi GPU to be released will cost less than the Radeon VII video card that the company released at the beginning of this year. That’s what AMD CEO Lisa Su said during a verbal explanation of the figures for the past first quarter.
AMD’s top woman did not provide any further details about this 7nm Navi GPU, but if it is positioned below the Radeon VII in terms of price, it will probably not immediately be a top model in the Navi GPU series. Su said the first 7nm Navi GPUs are expected to arrive in the third quarter. The same goes for the Rome Epyc server processors. According to Lisa Su, the development of the second-generation Epyc processors has “made excellent progress” during the first quarter. These chips must be shipped during the second quarter, so that they will be available in the third quarter.
The quarterly figures show that AMD’s quarterly revenue came in at $1.27 billion, which is a decline of 23 percent. The company attributes this decline mainly to the Computing and Graphics segment. Ultimately, the manufacturer left a net profit of $16 million, compared to $81 million a year earlier and $38 million in the previous quarter.
Quarterly revenue for the Computing and Graphics segment, which includes Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs, was $831 million, down 26 percent from the same quarter a year earlier and 16 percent from the last quarter. of 2018. AMD attributes the decline in sales in this segment to lower graphics sales, which were partly offset by shipments of Ryzen processors and data center GPUs.
The Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom business, which includes Epyc server processors, had revenues of $441 million, down 17 percent from the same period a year earlier. Where AMD recorded a loss of $6 million in this segment in the previous quarter, that was now a profit of $68 million. In the first quarter of 2018, this amounted to a profit of 14 million dollars. This sharp increase in profits, according to AMD, is due to license revenues based on the China-oriented joint venture Thatic.