Superior Micro Gadgets (AMD) reported second-quarter gross sales that beat analysts’ expectations, pushed by report income from its information middle phase.

The chipmaker posted income of $5.8 billion, up 9% from the year-ago interval and above the analysts’ estimates. Web revenue at $265 million or 16 cents per share missed projections, although excluding one-time objects, adjusted earnings of 69 cents per share beat estimates.

AMD’s Information Heart Income Doubles as AI Demand Booms

AMD’s top-line good points got here as information middle income greater than doubled year-over-year to a quarterly report of $2.8 billion, as demand for the corporate’s synthetic intelligence (AI) chips surged.

“The fast advances in generative AI are driving demand for extra compute in each market, creating important progress alternatives as we ship management AI options throughout our enterprise,” AMD CEO Lisa Su mentioned. 

AMD mentioned it anticipates $6.7 billion in gross sales within the third quarter, barely greater than analysts anticipated, in keeping with estimates compiled by Seen Alpha.

Su mentioned the corporate expects to “ship sturdy income progress within the second half of the 12 months led by demand for Intuition, EPYC and Ryzen processors.” 

Shares of AMD jumped greater than 7% to $138.44 in prolonged buying and selling as of 6:20 p.m. ET Tuesday following the corporate’s earnings launch.

The American girls appeared to play spoilers towards Australia and its fast-paced offense within the bronze medal match. The U.S. girls entered the match assured to have their greatest end at an Olympic rugby event, after ending sixth in Tokyo and fifth in Rio. They punctuated the chance with a last-second upset and a 14-12 win over Australia to assert the bronze medal.

The Individuals gained the match on the final play when Alex Sedrick stiffed arm her well past Australia’s protection and sprinted her method down the vast majority of the sector and positioned the ball down within the heart of the attempt for the game-tying rating. Underneath the best stress, she transformed her personal kick for the Individuals to seal the win for the Individuals.

After the match, Ilona Maher was nonetheless making an attempt to course of what simply occurred. “I hasn’t sunk in but. I’m so drained however I’m so excited. I don’t suppose it should sink in till we stand up with these medals. We labored actually onerous. We wished this medal, not for ourselves however for our households. It was such a tough few years, however we did it.”

FULL RESULTS

Early within the first, Maddison Levi continued her event tear and scored her thirteenth attempt of the Paris Video games to provide Australia the 7-0 lead. The 13 tries are probably the most scored in a single Olympic Video games. Ilona Maher led the Individuals on a pleasant run halfway by means of the primary, however the U.S. squad was slowed as they neared the attempt. The Individuals had been within the midst of executing a textbook part play when Teagan Levi was carded for a excessive sort out. 

On the person benefit, the Individuals had a number of scoring probabilities. The very best likelihood got here from a close to attempt by Kayla Canett, however Religion Nathan tackled her into contact to save lots of the attempt. On the restart, Canett made up for the missed attempt with a robust sort out within the attempt zone to win the ball again for the USA. On the following scrum, three-time Olympian Alev Kelter powered her method by means of Australia to the attempt zone. She transformed her personal attempt to even the rating at 7 and that’s how the 2 groups went into the half. 

Australia threated to start with of the second half with a harmful run by Maddison Levi, however Sariah Paki knocked the ball on receiving a cross within the attempt. 

The Individuals protection slowed the potent Australia offense many of the second half. Regardless of the defensive masterclass, a scrum penalty turned the ball over to Australia with lower than 90 seconds to play and the Levi sisters capitalized to provide Australia the lead when Maddison crossed the attempt line for her 14th attempt of the event. 

On the following kickoff, the Australians made a gutsy name to kick the ball deep off the kickoff. Ariana Ramsey set Sedrick as much as obtain the ball deep within the American territory and the Olympic newcomer did the remaining, she stiff armed Teagan Levi to the bottom and ran your entire size of the sector to tie the match.  She transformed her personal attempt from beneath the put up to provide the Individuals the 14-12 win within the bronze medal match. 

The Individuals pulled off the inconceivable comeback for the primary medal of any form in males’s or girls’s rugby sevens. It is usually the primary medal in rugby (15s or 7s) for the U.S. since 1924 when the lads gained gold. With the win, head coach Emilie Bydwell turned the primary feminine rugby head coach to steer a workforce to a medal of any form.

As Olympic rugby turns to the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles Maher hopes the win will assist propel American rugby ahead. “I hope it means we get extra video games in stadiums like this, that we get more cash and funding for the ladies’s sport. We deserve it. We’d like extra ladies within the US making an attempt rugby and seeing what it will possibly do for them.”

SAN DIEGO — A.J. Preller has made a profession out of buying and selling high-end prospects, rebuilding farm programs and, for higher or worse, performing boldly.

It was apparent as soon as once more Tuesday within the remaining hour of this yr’s commerce deadline, when the San Diego Padres’ famously aggressive normal supervisor swung a deal for Tanner Scott, the most effective reliever obtainable and somebody who had hardly even been linked to Preller’s Padres.

For Scott, a lights-out nearer who can be a free agent at season’s finish, the Padres gave up two of their greatest pitching prospects in Robby Snelling and Adam Mazur, in addition to Graham Pauley, a extremely rated infielder. After they acquired Jason Adam, a high-leverage reliever with two-plus years of management, on Sunday they traded away Dylan Lesko, whom some publications considered the Padres’ greatest pitching prospect heading into the yr.

Practically three months earlier, they landed former batting champion Luis Arraez with a package deal constructed round Dillon Head, their greatest outfield prospect exterior of transformed shortstop Jackson Merrill.

“One factor we have by no means been frightened of — we’ll commerce gamers,” Preller stated. “I do not know philosophically if it is proper, flawed — we’ll commerce gamers, they will present up within the massive leagues, at the very least our group is, and are going to do actually good issues. But when we get what we’re seeking to do, and it really works for us this yr and over the following three to 5 years, we’re content material with that.

“Billy Beane used to inform me that after I would speak commerce with him. He would all the time inform me, ‘I’ve traded All-Stars, MVPs, Cy Younger winners, and 20 years later we have accomplished loads of profitable and we’re nonetheless on this spot.’ We take it like we’ll commerce gifted gamers; that is a praise to our scouting group, actually, and our growth group.”

The Padres had for weeks been seemed upon as a crew that will chase beginning pitching forward of the deadline with Joe Musgrove navigating via his second elbow-related stint on the IL and Yu Darvish on the restricted record for an indefinite period of time. However the Padres weren’t comfy assembly the calls for on the high of the beginning pitching market, prompting Preller to chase his affect arm for the bullpen — an space that had seemingly already been fortified by the addition of Adam.

In Scott, the Padres obtained a 30-year-old lefty who posted a 1.18 ERA and gathered 18 saves in 44 appearances for the last-place Marlins, putting out 53 batters and issuing 27 walks in 45⅔ innings. Amongst relievers with at the very least 100 appearances because the begin of 2023, Scott ranks second in ERA (1.89), fourth in WHIP (0.99) and tenth in strikeout proportion (32.1).

In San Diego, Scott will slide into what now seems to be like a devastating again finish of the bullpen alongside Adam, Robert Suarez, Jeremiah Estrada and Adrian Morejon, with Suarez anticipated to stay the first nearer. The 5 of them had mixed to restrict opposing hitters to a .183/.260/.285 slash line.

“There’s loads of other ways to construct a workers,” stated Preller, who additionally added a depth starter within the remaining minutes earlier than the deadline, buying struggling left-hander Martin Perez from the Pittsburgh Pirates. “However simply having a bunch that hopefully shortens the sport — we have seen some groups win championships that means. Hopefully that is an actual energy for us within the subsequent couple months.”