HTC Posts a Profit With The Help of The HTC One M8

Anshel Sag — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 02:21:58 +0000

HTC today announced their earnings for the second fiscal quarter of 2014, Q2 2014. They posted a quarterly profit of NT$2.26 billion ($76.5 million), or NT$2.74 ($0.09 USD) per share on $65.06 billion NT ($2.18 billion USD). HTC’s shares were up as high as 4% on Taipei’s exchange trading this morning (Taipei time). Many people were interested to see how well HTC would perform because of their new HTC One M8 which we’ve reviewed. Based upon their current performance, it seems clear that HTC’s moves clearly resulted in improved profitability and a change in the company’s tide of losses from the previous quarters. Granted, they didn’t actually hemorrhage money in any quarter, they did post some of the biggest losses in the company’s history which led to many people questioning whether or not HTC could survive. Now that this question has been answered HTC can continue to move forward with their strategy without worrying as much about what investors will think about their decisions.

The HTC One M8

There are a lot of rumors that HTC will be picked to make the next Nexus device, likely the Nexus 9 tablet which should allow HTC to increase their revenue and hopefully profitability as well. If they are able to successfully manufacturer a successor to the HTC One Max and upgrade the display, camera and processor, they can probably compete with Samsung, LG and Apple this fall. Right now there aren’t that many smartphone players in the industry that are profitable, but HTC can once again consider themselves among the profitable ones.

It will be interesting to see whether or not the company will actually manufacture a tablet since they haven’t actually done so since they made the Flyer, their attractive but failed Android tablet nearly 3 years ago. Considering that the specs of that tablet are nowhere near the rumored specs of the Nexus 9 tablet that HTC is rumored to be building for Google, it would be a vast improvement for the company’s image and would hopefully encourage them to make more tablets and innovative devices like the HTC One.

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AMD reports $1.78B revenue, records first profit in years (non-GAAP)

Theo Valich — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:35:49 +0000

On Thursday, AMD reported its Q3’2008 results and the company managed to “Experience Black” (marketing slogan behind 4870X2). When we look at overall (non-GAAP) numbers, AMD filed $1.776 billion revenue and a profit of 80 million dollars. This was the first filed profit in seven quarters, and in a way, Hector J. Ruiz kept its promise of AMD becoming profitable by Q3’08.
However, the results that Wall Street calculates are GAAP ones, and without that one-time revenue of $191 million (selling equipment to JSC Angstrem, as I first reported here), the company filed a net loss of $67 million on a revenue of $1.56 billion.
This represents 32% higher score than previous quarter, and 14% jump from Q3’07. What made the cut for the company was tremendous growth in graphics, driven by great success of ATI Radeon 4800 series. In graphics industry, there is a saying: “second good generation wins” and it also came true this time around.
ATI Radeon 3800 was the road to recovery after disastrous eight month delay of Radeon 2000 series, and now Radeon 4800 core and 780-series chipsets are leading the recovery. AMD GPG filed the very first profit after AMD’s acquisition in 2006. Operating margin was 12%, all in all a neat improvement. You can see that the hard work of ATI folk is paying up.
When it comes to Q4 guidance, leadership stated that they expect revenue of roughly $1.58 billion or on the same levels as this one. The reason for this conservative guidance lies in the fact that this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday (Thanksgiving) and Christmas season might be significantly weaker. This is also an issue for AMD, because the company let Intel to completely takeover the nettop market, market that was invented by Nicholas Negroponte and AMD.
But that’s typical AMD – the company has always been a reactive one. For instance, ATI launches GPGPU initiative, and then falls behind its competitors. AMD was the first with embedded CPUs form factors, but the company never gave them resources to push the market through (DTX is a good example), first Xbox deal and so on, and so on. If AMD wants to become a real player, the company has to stop being reactive and start being progressive. Nobody cares if you complain about your competitors, if you’re not doing a better job than them – Nvidia’s PhysX deal and The Way It’s Meant To Be Played program just comes to mind. We wish AMD all the best, because without strong competition we’re limited to bad deals, but any problems that AMD had were caused by – AMD itself.
After installing and trying Catalyst 8.10, I’ve just yanked out 4870X2 from my system and placed GTX280 because it is ludicrous that a card with 1600 shaders delivers 40% less points per day (PPD) than 240 shaders inside a single GTX280. GRID Motion blur + 8xAA issue still wasn’t fixed and that was that.

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