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Company executives including CEO Hector Ruiz, President and COO Dirk Meyer, and Executive VP and CFO Bob Rivet largely rehashed financial details, but they also let slip a few tidbits of new information.

To start with, the company believes it gained processor market share in the fourth quarter of last year, largely due to the 11% revenue growth it witnessed in its Computing Solutions business. AMD expects to ship twice as many quad-core processors in Q1 2008 as it did in Q4 2007, which should mean somewhere around 800,000 chips in total. The Computing Solutions business was profitable in Q4, as well, despite the TLB erratum shenanigans.

Speaking of the TLB issue, AMD also had an update to give regarding the B3 revision of its quad-core chips, which will fix the erratum. According to Dirk Meyer, B3 silicon is out of the factory and is being "put through the paces" internally. AMD plans to provide customers with engineering samples within two to three weeks and to follow with production samples later this quarter. However, AMD doesn't expect availability until very late in Q1, with the bulk of B3 chips to come in Q2.