The chip company AMD is not out of the red. The Intel-rival in the third quarter recorded a loss of 118 million dollars. A year ago it had a loss of 128 million U.S. dollars given. Revenue increased year over year by 16 percent to 1.6 billion dollars, as the company announced after U.S. market close on Thursday. CEO Dirk Meyer said consumer demand had been weaker than expected. AMD had already announced in September that sales would be below the value of the second quarter, since laptops are selling worse than expected. With a decline of 2 percent quarter on quarter, the company suffered the predicted range of 1 to 4 percent.

On the way out of crisis AMD had its production lines - split off under the name Global foundries and sold a majority of investors - including in Dresden. Meanwhile, AMD now holds only about a quarter of the business. Write-offs associated with Global foundries AMD press now but for the second consecutive quarter in the red. In the second quarter AMD had therefore entered a minus of 43 million dollars. Overall, runs the business from AMD this year but still better than in 2009.After three quarters, the Group made a profit of 96 million dollars.

A year ago, however, the red end as of September of 874 million dollars in the balance sheet. But then a billion check from Intel AMD helped but still black. The companies had settled with the payment of competition and patent disputes. When AMD rival Intel, the weakened demand from residential customers had recently left but also signs of slowing. The industry leader, holding about 80 percent of the market does, but in a different league. Intel rose in the third quarter revenue by 18 percent to 11.1 billion dollars. The profit jumped by 59 percent up on some three billion dollars.