Allen
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Interesting. As noted above, companies are free to define their own "quarters".
According to AMD, they do follow the normal calendar. That's different than what the article quoted above implied.
From the AMD site, the following example:
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12. What are AMD’s fiscal year and quarters? AMD’s fiscal year follows the standard calendar year. Fiscal quarters for the 2015 year (exact dates are adjusted early):
First Quarter: December 28, 2014 – March 28, 2015 Second Quarter: March 29, 2015 – June 27, 2015 Third Quarter: June 28, 2015 – September 26, 2015 Fourth Quarter: September 27, 2015 – December 26, 2015