Comment by echelon
3 days ago
Leadership. At the end of the day, the buck stops with leadership.
If they wanted to prioritize this, they would. They're simply not taking it seriously.
3 days ago
Leadership. At the end of the day, the buck stops with leadership.
If they wanted to prioritize this, they would. They're simply not taking it seriously.
I always thought of Lisa Su as an effective leader, but this does make me question it.
I thought so too until I read a Stratechery interview that painted a pretty bad portrait of her time at Sony [0].
I tend to think that AMD looks well run when compared with Intel [1], but when you consider Nvidia as the relevant counterfactual [2], things don't look so good.
I wrote about this here [3].
[0] https://setharielgreen.com/blog/amd-also-seems-to-be-flounde...
Why, because 90% of her job is talking to and appeasing shareholders, grand standing with fat whales, and what else.. what do you think a CEO at these companies actually does? They aren't in the trenches of each subdivision nurturing and cracking whips. She likely attends a 2 hour briefing with a line item: CUDA parity project: on schedule release date not set
Fair points. I think the difference is that AMD has other businesses that are much larger than GPUs, whereas NVIDIA was always just about GPUs.
And why do you think that? Have you worked with her personally, or is it maybe because Fortune spent a decade preaching "women in tech" regardless of what those women may actually be doing?
Do you think AMD out-performing Intel for years might have something to do with it? I know that doesn’t fit whatever axe you have to grind against “women in tech” but it seems more in keeping with the business world’s widely recognized tendency to credit CEOs for the decisions made by large numbers of people who work for them but don’t get up on stage.
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