AMD's net income for the past quarter was $510 million, originate from $1.61 billion in total revenues. That should make happy reading for a company that's been raising similar gross revenues away back but finding itself losing cash -- though the more alluring figures are a little deeper in its latest disclosure. CFO and interim CEO Thomas Seifert has noted that AMD "tripled" its Fusion APU package relative to last quarter -- meaning that at least 3.9 million units have made their way out to OEM partners in Q1 -- which now account for "roughly half" of the company's catalog shipments. In less upbeat news, average selling prices in both the microprocessor and visuals divisions were down sequentially, with AMD having to react to thrust from its established foes Intel and NVIDIA. You might surmise that with the current Llano APU out and shipping to number cruncher* makers, AMD might have a happier second quarter, but the company's guidance is for revenues to be flat or slightly down. A final note of pride is reserved for the Radeon HD 6490M and HD 6750M GPUs, which figured prominently in Apple's latest MacBook Pro refresh and mark a bit of a coup for AMD, who's now reliability for all of Apple's discrete big screen* across the MacBook Pro and iMac report lines. Click the links below for even more intel on lent Micro Devices.

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