“I’ve heard that.”
— Lisa Su, AMD CEO, on the fact that she’s the first female chief executive of a major semiconductor company. In an interview with Fortune, Su says she’s “honored by it,” but that it’s more important to her “that when you grade AMD, whether it’s three years from now or five years from now, you grade it on that this was a fantastic set of assets that she turned into something special.”
In the Fortune interview, the MIT-educated Su — who was named CEO of Sunnyvale-based Advanced Micro Devices in October after being COO — sounded excited about the growing connectedness of everyday things.
“Fifty billion devices will be connected together… you’ll have PCs and cars and more, and all of them need computing and visualization,” she said. “That’s what we do.”
Su said she wants AMD to work with customers from the get-go to give them something they want and need. “The history of the company is that we’ve been second source to other people. I think we really need to change that.”
Su’s comments come amid talk about diversifying the Silicon Valley tech workforce, with Intel announcing this week that it is investing $300 million in its own effort to do just that.
Photo of Lisa Su from AMD
