The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Lisa Su presents as a quintessential Visionary, consistently framing AMD's technical roadmap within sweeping multi-year demand curves and civilizational-scale compute needs. In this CES interview, Su introduces the 'yottaflop' as a rhetorical anchor, projecting a hundredfold increase in global compute within five years and connecting chip architecture decisions directly to a world of five billion AI users.
“Days to weeks is an incredible opportunity. So just think that through. When's the last time you had to wait two weeks, three weeks for an appointment? When's the last time it took two or three days to get through to somebody? Healthcare, education, construction, renovating your home, you know, pick one of those categories.”
“Spending money massively on solar and wind and not doing enough drilling. And now we're kind of got the other group in office. They're going to be like trying to get more gas out of the ground, et cetera. And it's all of the above. Let's call it what it is. We need all of it.”
“But I don't think you can make a super clip of it or use the entire archive. But if somebody said, hey, this week in startups is going to get paid, they have a subscription program. It's a subscription podcast. Great, pay for it. I pay for financial times. I pay for the economist.”
“Agree with half of what they're saying. Hey, I got no choice but to support this administration and what they're doing with AI and crypto is a lot more than the last administration, which wouldn't even meet with us. So important note for the Democrats.”
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