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Chip manufacturer AMD has the wind in the sails. In the last quarter of 2005 sold the business 27 per cent more processors in comparison with a year before.

The volume of trade of the processor division ascended in a year time with 79 per cent, of 730 million dollars in the last quarter of last year until 1.31 billion dollar. In absolute numbers, AMD 27 per cent sold ascended more processors, the average sale price with 6 per cent. Exact sale figures known are made just later on.

In the last fiscal quarter of 2005, ending on 25 December, posted AMD a sales of 1.84 billion dollar. Analysts had counted on 1.67 billion dollar. The chip manufacturer wanted to close the quarter with 96 million dollars net profit, or 21 penny per share. In the same period last year made the business yet 30 million dollars loss.

The figures love bill with the expenses connected at the terugschroeven AMD interest in Spansion, a noodlijdende joint venture that flash memory produces. Without these unique expenses of 110 million dollars walks the per form neat profit on until 205 million dollars, or 45 penny per share.

The good figures of AMD do not come as a surprise. By the notification of the quarter figures before this week gave rival Intel already closed that the market share loses at AMD. Especially in America, Intel got apt blows.

Also the prospects for 2006 see from it favorably. AMD expects lap to grow this year so fast as the average in the sector. For the first quarter of 2006 counts the business on a volume of trade increase with 70 per cent in comparison with the same period in 2005. In the second half of 2006, the chip baker hopes to score with a dual-core version of the Turion, a processor for notebooks.