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Investment Overview for AMD (NYSE:AMD)
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Below are key drivers of AMD's value that present opportunities for upside or downside to the current Trefis price estimate for AMD:
Notebook Processors
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AMD Notebook Processor Market Share: We currently estimate AMD's notebook processor market share to increase to approximately 14% by end of our forecast period. However, if AMD manages to increase its market share to 20%, there will be an over 10% upside to our current price estimate for the company.
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AMD Average Notebook Processor Pricing: Although this figure has been relatively stable for the last few years, we expect it to decline from an estimated $56 in 2012 to about $49 by end of our forecast period, as competition from other PC forms like tablets as well as ARM-based players in the PC market intensifies. However, if AMD is able to increase its average notebook processor pricing with the help of enhancements and reach a value of around $65 by end of our forecast period, there could be a less than 10% upside to our price estimate.
Server Processors
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AMD Server Processor Market Share: We expect AMD's server processor market share to increase from an estimated 4.4% in 2012 to 11% by 2019, as AMD pushes back with its Interlagos design. However there could be an upside of close to 25% to our price estimate if AMD can go all the way up to its historical peak share of just under 25% by end of our forecast period. On the other hand there could be downside of about 5% to the current price estimate if AMD's share stays around the current level.
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AMD manufactures and markets microprocessors used in servers, desktop PCs, and notebook PCs. Microprocessors are a PC's Central Processing Unit (CPU) or the "brain" behind the computer. A microprocessor is the single most important component that drives computer power and performance. Additionally, AMD manufactures Graphics Processor Units (GPUs), which are used in PCs to process information for graphics displays. AMD sells its processors primarily to PC manufacturers such as Dell, HP, Sony, and Toshiba.
AMD has recently introduced its new microprocessors specifically targeting the rapidly growing tablet market.
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We believe the Desktop and Notebook Processors divisions are the two most valuable segments within AMD for the following reasons:
High share in desktop processor market
In 2012, AMD had a 19.9% market share in the desktop processor market compared to a 14% and 4.4% market share notebooks and servers respectively. Although desktop demand has stunted while notebook demand is growing at a rapid pace, AMD's market share advantage in desktops makes the company's desktop processor segment remains an important division for its valuation.
Growing notebook market
Despite a much lower market share, AMD's notebook processor is more valuable for AMD's business, as per our estimate. This is because the notebook market is expected to grow while the desktop market may stagnate. We estimate that about 188 million notebooks were shipped in 2012 globally and expect number to cross 200 million by end of our forecast period.
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On-going server virtualization
Server virtualization is essentially server consolidation that enables the running of multiple applications on a single server instead of on multiple servers. Server virtualization is driving a mix shift to higher-end servers, which requires multi-core processor servers that tend to be more complex and more expensive than traditional single core processors.
Shift from Desktops to Notebooks
The shift of consumer preference from desktops to laptops will continue as the performance and pricing gap between desktops and laptops narrows. We expect the desktop market to more or less stagnate while notebooks will continue to grow, driven by demand from emerging markets.
Increasing Importance of Smartphone Chips
Smartphone shipments increased by 43% in 2012 ($675 million), accounting for 39% of the mobile phone market. Gartner forecast the mobile phone shipments to climb to 2.2 billion units by 2016, and we estimate smartphones to account for 60% of the shipments. Improving mobile network speeds, growing awareness of smartphones, multiple options present in the market and innovation from smartphone manufacturers will continue to drive growth.
IDC estimates the global tablet shipments to have reached 117 million units in 2012, a 65% increase from 2011, and forecast the market to rise to over 260 million units by 2016
Convergence of Graphics & Processing
AMD and Intel have moved away from the idea of integrated graphics. Intel's introduction of Sandy Bridge processors and AMD's launch of Llano essentially indicate that the future of integrated graphics is over. These chips pack GPU within the CPU leading to much better graphics performance than one can get from traditional integrated graphics.
Mobile Processing
This remains key area that is not yet reasonably explored by both Intel and AMD. Intel has been doing some work with its Atom processor and AMD is also looking to push into this market this year with the launch of its Z-series processors, code-named Hondo. Smartphone and tablets are likely to remain one of the key focus for Intel and AMD in 2013 and beyond.
PC market opening up to ARM
Windows 8 is ARM-compatible and we will see ARM-based processor manufacturers entering PC market which has traditionally been dominated by x86 processor architecture.
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