As we promised last week, we have the Q2’08 fiscal numbers
for AMD which came out yesterday. And for the sake of completeness we also have
Intel, whose numbers came out earlier this week. We’ll start with AMD.
AMD:
So much for only losing $200 million this quarter. At face
value, AMD lost $1.19 billion this
quarter, on revenue of...
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