Advanced Micro said it the impairment charges won't necessitate any current or future cash expenditures.
Barclay also cited a 65% rise in impairment charges, sending its shares down by 3.8% in London.
Yet despite the widespread expectation of impending loan-quality problems, the big banks reduced impairment charges in Q3.
Impairment charges in the Republic and Northern Ireland continue to be the biggest drag on the group's finances.
But the big picture isn't bank earnings or the lack thereof due to various goodwill writedowns or impairment charges.
Excluding one time impairment charges, the latest loss was 37 cents per share, while analysts were expecting a loss of 3 cents.
It also said impairment charges - money set aside to cover bad loans - were down by 40% compared with a year ago.
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The company reported higher revenues, but lower orders and profits for several of its sectors due to impairment charges and a higher comparative level in 2010.
Adidas, the world's second largest sportswear maker, has reported a loss for the last three months of 2012, mainly owing to impairment charges relating to its Reebok brand.
Smacked by plunging solar panel prices, LDK Solar Inc. (LDK) became the latest in a string of solar companies to post quarterly losses due to mounting impairment charges.
Barrick reported a fourth-quarter loss due to impairment charges.
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Rio Tinto's new CEO, Sam Walsh, said the miner will review investments and cut costs, after it notched its first annual loss following a drop in commodity prices and large impairment charges.
Better credit performance has meant that impairment (bad loan) charges have continued to fall with continued low interest rates enabling the majority of customers to pay their mortgages and even reduce their credit exposures.
There were one-time charges and gains, "repositioning" costs, impairment adjustments and ever-confusing special accounting measures.
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