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Investing.com - Shares in Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) edged higher in premarket U.S. trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker unveiled a second-quarter revenue guidance that beat Wall Street estimates.
AMD said it expects current-quarter revenue to be approximately $7.4 billion, plus or minus $300 million, topping projections of $7.24 billion. Analysts suggested that the upbeat outlook was likely driven by many clients racing to lock in purchases prior to the implementation of sweeping U.S. tariffs.
California-based AMD has been grappling with new U.S. restrictions on the export of high-end artificial intelligence-processors to China, threatening a crucial region for the company. China was AMD’s second-largest market in 2024, accounting for more than 24% of total sales and creating roughly $6.32 billion in revenue.
The firm said it expects to incur a hit of $1.5 billion to sales this year because of the export curbs, with CEO Lisa Su flagging that the impact will be most felt in the second and third quarters. Still, Su sees annual AI chip revenue from its data center unit climbing in the "double digits".
In the first quarter, AMD announced earnings per share of $0.96 on revenue of $7.44 billion. Analysts polled by Investing.com had anticipated per-share profit of $0.95 and sales of $7.11 billion.
The company’s data center segment continued to soak up AI demand, with revenue rising 57% from a year earlier to $3.7 billion, driven by sales of its central processing units, used in servers, and its general processing units, which are integral in data center and AI infrastructure.
"On the one hand, the fact that AMD can show client/gaming revenues strong enough to paper over the [...] China AI air pocket is impressive," analysts at Bernstein said in a note. "On the other hand, while the company can deny it all they like the pull-forward narrative is going to have some legs given the sheer magnitude of client upside [...] and likely to draw concern as tariff worries build."
(Yasin Ebrahim contributed reporting.)