AMD's R&D Budget increased by 15% in 2017

[WYP]

AMD is now able to invest more into their future products.



Read more about AMD's increased R&D spending.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I'm so glad to see the money going straight into R&D. I don't know how businesses like that work and how they balance their economy, but for an engineering company, R&D makes sense to be the most critical area of emphasis. I can't imagine how Vega has earned AMD any money yet, but when the APUs are released I suspect it will.

 

[RobM]

onwards and upwards for a new era with AMD

 

[NeverBackDown]

Please focus on your GPUs then...

 

[Giggyolly]

I would love to see what the revenue and profit split is between AMD and RTG.
I mean they are selling pretty much all of the vega chips they are shipping, but is it profitable?

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Sure it's profitable. What I am curious about is with Apple cutting iPhoneX production, can AMD get priority on the on the increased fab space to get more HBM in production.

AMD had a revenue increase of almost 25% over 2016. As low as their RND budget is compared to other companies, that's a good bump, but still too low. The good news is AMD is really good about creating some nice hardware on shoestring budget. The down side is if they start splitting their product line. A dedicated mining card vs a gaming card, that will pull some of the RND funds off the main line productions. We won't get the benefits we should.

 

[RobM]

They managed the amazing 2500 on a shoestring budget back in the day