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Hey, this interim CEO thing doesn't seem to be too hard at all. Thomas
Seifert, the temporary solution to the problem created by Dirk Meyer's
departure from AMD's top spot, has had a pretty comfy ride reporting
the company's latest quarterly results. The pecuniary numbers
themselves ($1.65b revenue, $375m net income) were tame and
unexciting, but Seifert got to make a pair of juicy milestone
announcements. Firstly, on the mobile and ever-so-efficient front, he
noted that 1.3 million Fusion APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) have
been shipped to partners since AMD started deliveries in November, and
secondly, in terms of discrete graphics chips, he disclosed that the
Radeon HD 5000 and HD 6000 series DirectX 11 GPUs have surpassed the
35 million units shipped mark. To give you some perspective on what
that means, sales of Nintendo's bestselling Wii console are hovering
somewhere around the same figure. So yes, AMD, your wagon has
momentum, but shouldn't it have a driver too?
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