Ryzen leads AMD sales despite problems with mining

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Ryzen processors are becoming the star product of AMD. This is shown by the company's earnings during this second quarter of 2017, which increased 19%, compared to the same period last year.

The presentation of the latest results has been the occasion chosen by the top officials of AMD to send players two important messages. First, that the developers have completed the optimization of games for Ryzen; And secondly, that they rely on the miners to stop mining criptomonedas. This is good news, as gamers have long faced the shortage of graphics cards (Radeon RX 570 and RX 580, especially) due to mining while waiting for developers to rewrite the code to take advantage of the New Ryzen chips.

Sales of AMD Ryzen processors have led during the second quarter - and it puts Intel in a pinch. Specifically, revenue from the company's Computing and Graphics division has increased 59% this year, reaching $ 659 million. Positive figures that offset the negative results achieved by the department that covers the game consoles chips, which experienced a decrease of 5%, to reach 563 million dollars. In total results, AMD reported losses of $ 16 million while earning $ 1.22 billion in revenue.

"Our Ryzen desktop processors, Vega GPUs and EPYC datacenter products have received tremendous industry recognition. We are very pleased with our improved financial performance, which includes double-digit revenue growth and margin expansion Brute year after year in the strength of our new products, "said Lisa Sun, president and CEO of AMD

As we said, measures have been taken against cryptography miners who use graphics cards to mine cryptones, such as Bitcoin or Etherum - which are not at their best - and that developers have completed code optimizations for Ryzen, there are two Good news for gamers. And also for AMD, which has forecast for the next quarter a 23% growth in revenue. If this figure is reached, the company would provide $ 1.5 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2017.

From the company are working to bring the Ryzen mobile chips to the market while in the coming days will go on sale low-end chips. Than the products.