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Today, we\u2019re learning how big AMD\u2019s gaming business is for the very first time \u2014 and the answer is $5 billion a year. That\u2019s how much the company earned in 2021 from the \u201csemi-custom\u201d chips that go into Sony\u2019s PS5, PS4, and every modern Microsoft Xbox, in addition to its discrete GPUs you\u2019ll find in graphics cards and high-end gaming laptops.<\/p>\n

It appears to have become quite a profitable business, too \u2014 nearly $1 billion in revenue in 2021 \u2014 and could exceed that this year: in an earnings call, CEO Lisa Su says the company typically sees its most money from game consoles in the third quarter, and it\u2019s on track for \u201crecord semi-custom annual revenue in 2022.\u201d <\/p>\n

In 2020, AMD actually lost<\/em> $138 <\/em>million on gaming… but in just one year, operating income rose by over a billion dollars to hit $934 million in 2021. Late 2021 is when Sony started turning a profit on the PlayStation 5<\/a>, though Sony still has supply constraints<\/a>; Microsoft generally doesn\u2019t turn a profit on the Xbox<\/a> itself, though AMD almost certainly would as a chip supplier.<\/p>\n

This quarter, AMD\u2019s gaming revenue is up 32 percent year over year. <\/p>\n

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Gaming revenue for 2021: $5.6 billion.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

That\u2019s all according to the company\u2019s Q2 2022 earnings<\/a>, as you can see in the slide above. As we mentioned in May,<\/a> this is the first quarter that the company\u2019s broken out gaming into its own financial segment: previously, game console revenue was lumped in with embedded and data center, and GPUs were lumped in with CPUs. <\/p>\n

AMD\u2019s planning to launch its RDNA 3 GPUs later this year; they\u2019ll use 5nm chiplets, and AMD\u2019s promising \u201cmore than 50 percent generational improvement in performance per watt.\u201d While AMD says it is seeing the slowdown in demand for gaming graphics<\/a> now \u2014 PCs in general are slowing down<\/a>, BTW \u2014 it expects that a new launch will improve demand in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n

Gaming is now AMD\u2019s second-biggest business after its \u201cclient\u201d business (desktop and notebook processors), though its data center business is currently blowing up, too. It\u2019s currently up 83 percent year over year.<\/p>\n

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Embedded now includes Xilinx, a company AMD finished acquiring in February.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s how much AMD\u2019s revenue is growing in general.<\/p>\n

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Record revenue quarter after quarter, now up to $6.6 billion.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n


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