Wednesday, January 18, 2006

AMD is eating Intel's Lunch

After the market close, (AMD) reported earning. It blew past the estimate. In constrast to (INTC), it is making inroads to (INTC) market share.

The company earned $96 million, or 21 cents a share, on sales of $1.84 billion in its fourth fiscal quarter. This result includes a noncash charge associated the spinoff of flash memory company Spansion. Excluding the charge, AMD earned $205 million, or 45 cents a share. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call had expected the company to earn 26 cents a share on $1.66 billion in sales.

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