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A rare direction of travel — one customer at 18% became none above 10%, because a different part of the company grew.
In fiscal 2023 one Client and Gaming segment customer accounted for 18% of AMD's consolidated net revenue. In fiscal 2024 and again in 2025, no customer reached 10%1. That is a rare direction of travel in this collection, where almost every company's concentration has been rising.
The explanation is not that AMD found new customers so much as that a different part of the company grew. The semi-custom business — processors built into games consoles — was a large, lumpy, single-customer-dominated revenue line, and it has shrunk relative to a data-centre business that sells to many buyers. Revenue from custom products and development services fell from 25% of the total in 2023 to 9% in 2025.
The improvement is real and worth understanding correctly. AMD is less exposed to any single console generation's success, and more exposed to hyperscaler capital budgets — a trade of one concentration for another with better growth and worse predictability. Console cycles are long and knowable; AI capital spending is neither.
Watch whether a data-centre customer eventually crosses the 10% threshold. That would signal the accelerator business has become large enough to re-concentrate the customer base, which is what success in that market actually looks like.
One customer at 18% of revenue in 2023 became no customer above 10% in 2024 and 2025 — a rare improvement in this collection. The mechanism was growth elsewhere rather than diversification of the console business, which means the improvement is real but was a by-product rather than a strategy.
The console business shrank relative to a data-centre business selling to many buyers, which is why one customer at 18% in 2023 became none above 10%. A trade of one concentration for another with better growth and worse predictability. Watch whether a data-centre customer eventually crosses 10%.
Source: AMD Form 10-K, FY2025 ↗- ReportedOne Client and Gaming customer was 18% of net revenue in FY2023; no customer reached 10% in FY2024 or FY2025; custom products fell from 25% of revenue to 9%.AMD Form 10-K, FY2025 — no customer accounted for at least 10% of consolidated net revenue in fiscal 2025 or 2024; one Client and Gaming segment customer accounted for 18% of consolidated net revenue in fiscal 2023; one customer accounted for approximately 11% of total consolidated accounts receivable at December 27, 2025 and another accounted for 24% at December 28, 2024; sales to external customers by geography were United States $11,363M, China including Hong Kong $7,751M, Taiwan $5,186M, Singapore $4,284M and other regions $6,055M of $34,639M total; revenue recognized over time associated with custom products and development services was approximately 9%, 8% and 25% of revenue in 2025, 2024 and 2023; approximately $440M of net inventory and related charges were recorded in 2025 associated with the U.S. government export control on AMD Instinct accelerators — FY2025 (ended December 27, 2025) · publ. February 4, 2026 · source ↗