AMD Forecasts Shaky First-Quarter Sales Despite AI Boom
AMD Forecasts Shaky First-Quarter Sales Despite AI Boom
by Asa Fitch
作者：Asa Fitch
$Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$ projected lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, citing weakness in some of its core markets even as sales of artificial-intelligence chips grow.
$美國超微公司 (AMD.US)$ 預計第一季度收入將低於預期，理由是儘管人工智能芯片的銷售增長，但其一些核心市場仍表現疲軟。
AMD expects around $5.4 billion of sales in the current quarter, the company said, up from $5.35 billion the same period last year but behind Wall Street forecasts, according to FactSet.
FactSet表示，AMD預計本季度的銷售額約爲54億美元，高於去年同期的53.5億美元，但落後於華爾街的預期。
AMD's stock fell 6% in after-hours trading. The shares have more than doubled over the past 12 months.
AMD的股票在盤後交易中下跌了6％。在過去的12個月中，該股翻了一番多。
In addition to weaker sales of PC and videogaming chips, AMD said it was seeing a seasonal decline in sales of computer servers where its chips feature. That was being offset, however, by growing interest in the company's chips for artificial intelligence calculations, AMD said.
除了個人電腦和視頻遊戲芯片的銷售疲軟外，AMD還表示，其芯片所在的計算機服務器的銷售出現季節性下降。但是，AMD表示，人們對該公司人工智能計算芯片的興趣與日俱增，這被抵消了這一點。
AMD is the nearest rival to Nvidia in AI chips needed to create advanced systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
在創建諸如OpenAI的ChatGPT等高級系統所需的人工智能芯片方面，AMD是與英偉達最接近的競爭對手。
In addition to its first-quarter forecast, AMD said sales for the fourth quarter were $6.17 billion, up 10% from the year-ago period. Profits also climbed to $667 million from $21 million in the prior year. Those figures came in ahead of Wall Street forecasts.
除了第一季度的預測外，AMD還表示第四季度的銷售額爲61.7億美元，比去年同期增長10％。利潤也從去年的2100萬美元攀升至6.67億美元。這些數字超出了華爾街的預期。