Jan 13, 2025 17:00:00

AMD CEO Lisa Su talks about her relationship with NVIDIA's CEO and how she was appointed CEO

AMD has been gaining influence in the CPU market by achieving performance equal to or greater than Intel, and is also showing momentum second only to NVIDIA in the GPU market. A video of an interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su has been released.

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Below is a graph showing AMD's stock price. Until the early 2010s, AMD had an overwhelming market share gap with Intel, and its stock price was sluggish. However, since Su became CEO in 2014, AMD's performance has improved and its stock price has started to rise.

According to CEO Sue, on the day of her appointment, the chairman of the board called her and asked, 'Lisa, can I talk to you?' The chairman then said, 'It's time.' The chairman told the confused CEO Sue, 'I'm going to appoint you as the next CEO.'

CEO Su cites the launch of

the Ryzen series of CPUs that use the Zen architecture as the biggest turning point since he became CEO. Before the appearance of Ryzen, AMD CPUs were considered to be cheaper but lower in performance than Intel CPUs, but the Ryzen series announced in December 2016 showed performance comparable to Intel CPUs, and as it was upgraded to the second and third generations, it surpassed Intel CPUs in performance.

CEO Sue gives a tour of AMD's research facilities. CEO Sue says he visits research facilities when he wants to see great new technology with his own eyes and when there is some kind of problem with a product.

CEO Sue encourages her employees.

CEO Su promotes

the X3D series CPU, which uses 3D V-Cache, as 'the fastest gaming CPU.'

This is a test version of the AI chip '

MI300 '. MI300 is apparently used to run Microsoft Azure's AI services, OpenAI's GPT-4o, and more.

AMD's biggest rival in the AI field is NVIDIA, which is leading the AI field. In fact, both CEO Su and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang have roots in Tainan, Taiwan, and are known to be

relatives . However, according to CEO Su, the two first met at an industry event and have never met at a family gathering.

CEO Sue arrives at the racing circuit.

Su is a big car enthusiast and owns several Porsches at home. Each car is called an AMD product name such as 'Ryzen' or 'EPYC.'

The popular F1 driver Lewis Hamilton appeared and had a lively conversation with CEO Su. Hamilton is also a Call of Duty gamer and an AMD product user.