WEBVTT - AMD CEO Lisa Su Talks New Data Center Chip, Demand 

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to Bloomberg Tech Lisa Sue Helios with m

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<v Speaker 2>I four to fifty five x AMD's first RAX scale

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<v Speaker 2>system solution. But inside it AMD's first in the world's

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<v Speaker 2>first two nanimeter.

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<v Speaker 3>Chip of that type.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot was made of it when you actually just

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<v Speaker 2>stood on stage and held it in your hand for

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<v Speaker 2>the first time.

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<v Speaker 3>Why is it significant?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, first of.

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<v Speaker 1>All, Ed, it's great to be here with you at CS.

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<v Speaker 1>I think CS is always a great way to kick

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<v Speaker 1>off the year because you get so much perspective. So

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<v Speaker 1>it was fun giving the keynote last night. Look, Helios is.

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<v Speaker 4>A massive system, you can see it in the.

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<v Speaker 1>Background here, and m I four fifty five is just

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<v Speaker 1>an incredibly powerful chip. And probably the context I would

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<v Speaker 1>give Ed is, you know, one of the things that

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<v Speaker 1>we're so clear about is that the demand for AI

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<v Speaker 1>compute is just continuing to increase. And you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>have seen that over the last five years. When you

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<v Speaker 1>think about just how much you know, new capabilities have

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<v Speaker 1>come on board, we've now seen a real inflection in

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<v Speaker 1>the number of people who are using AI. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you think today they're probably more than a billion active

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<v Speaker 1>users using AI and we expect that to scale to

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<v Speaker 1>over five billion users over the next five years. So

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<v Speaker 1>for all of that, you need compute and lots and

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<v Speaker 1>lots of compute. And from that standpoint, you know, m

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<v Speaker 1>I four fifty five is a significant leap forward in

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<v Speaker 1>terms of technology capability, made up of two and three

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<v Speaker 1>nanometer trips, three hundred and twenty billion transistors, just a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of performance.

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<v Speaker 2>And a lot of the timeline for it to be

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<v Speaker 2>deployed in the real world, and then who will be

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<v Speaker 2>the principal first user of it.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll see it in the second half of twenty six

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<v Speaker 1>and it will ramp from there. And you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>have very strong partnerships open AI. Greg Brockman was on

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<v Speaker 1>stage with us last night talking about all.

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<v Speaker 4>The use cases that they see.

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<v Speaker 1>We've announced a partnership with the Oracle, many others as well.

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<v Speaker 2>So given that it's two h it's in full production now,

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<v Speaker 2>it's getting ready to are.

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<v Speaker 4>We are absolutely getting ready to ship it.

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<v Speaker 2>That's at one end of the sort of scale and spectrum.

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<v Speaker 2>At the other you have m I four forty x,

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<v Speaker 2>which is for small data centers. I'm trying to simplify it,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's basically an enterprise product. What was it that

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<v Speaker 2>you were trying to solve for with that?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think what we're trying to solve for is,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the world is a very heterogeneous world.

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<v Speaker 4>You have all kinds of use.

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<v Speaker 1>Cases for AI from you know, sort of the very

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<v Speaker 1>biggest cloud data centers that are doing you know, large

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<v Speaker 1>scale training and inference to enterprise applications as well as supercomputers,

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<v Speaker 1>and so we actually have a family of chips.

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<v Speaker 4>At the highest end, is there.

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<v Speaker 1>M I four fifty five for the cloud environment, But

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<v Speaker 1>we announced last night a m I four forty which

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<v Speaker 1>is actually using the same basic building blocks, but is

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<v Speaker 1>now really focused on enterprise applications so that you can

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<v Speaker 1>go into you know, let's call it current data centers

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<v Speaker 1>with the new technology.

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<v Speaker 4>So we're excited about that as well.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, there is enterprises are starting to increase their

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<v Speaker 1>adoption of AI. In some cases they want their own

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<v Speaker 1>control of their data centers in terms of on prem environments.

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<v Speaker 3>What are they doing with it though?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, we've been so fixated on frontier

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<v Speaker 2>models with hundreds of billions of parameters and the scale

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<v Speaker 2>of infrastructure needed for that with MI I F forty,

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<v Speaker 2>we're talking about something slightly different. I think it's just

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<v Speaker 2>really interesting if you could explain what the demand is

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<v Speaker 2>from those enterprises, what they want with the technology.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I think you see many enterprises now using AI

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<v Speaker 1>all throughout their business processes, whether you're talking about things

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<v Speaker 1>in their workflow. Even AMD we're using AI through every

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<v Speaker 1>part of our development process. We're seeing a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>applications in financial services and healthcare, and these are areas,

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<v Speaker 1>especially in financial services, that people actually don't want everything

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<v Speaker 1>necessarily in the cloud. They'd like to be able to

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<v Speaker 1>have their own on prem deployment or private cloud deployments.

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<v Speaker 1>And in this case, you don't want to have to

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<v Speaker 1>build a brand new data center for every new generation

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<v Speaker 1>of chip. M four point forty allows us to use

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<v Speaker 1>some of those existing data centers in upgrade with the

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<v Speaker 1>new capabilities.

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<v Speaker 3>Welcome.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're watching us on Bloomberg Television or you're listening

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<v Speaker 2>on Bloomberg Radio. We're live in Las Vegas and we're

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<v Speaker 2>with AMD CEO Lisa Sue, and we're talking about the

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<v Speaker 2>latest generation of accelerators. What makes this generation of AMD

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<v Speaker 2>accelerators the better option, particularly for on prem and at

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<v Speaker 2>the edge over what Nvidia is offering right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, the best way to think about it, ED is

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<v Speaker 1>we're in this place where AI is at a inflection point.

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<v Speaker 1>We're seeing AI now in every part of compute. We

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<v Speaker 1>see it in the largest models, you know, when you're

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about things like track, GPT and Gemini and Rock.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we're also seeing you know, many use cases

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<v Speaker 1>in UH, you know, new capabilities like you know, video production, entertainment, healthcare,

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<v Speaker 1>where you're doing drug discovery, all of these various things.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, our claim to fame is really you know,

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<v Speaker 1>outstanding performance at you know, very advantage total cost of ownership.

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<v Speaker 1>And the other thing that you know we believe very

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<v Speaker 1>strongly in is an open ecosystem and deep partnerships, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>with our UH you know, with our overall.

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<v Speaker 4>Ecosystem coming together.

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<v Speaker 1>So when you put those things in perspective, I think

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<v Speaker 1>we have a great set of applications that will take

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<v Speaker 1>advantage of these newest generationships.

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<v Speaker 2>You mentioned that Greg Brockman, who's the Opening Eye president,

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<v Speaker 2>was on stage with you last night, and one of

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<v Speaker 2>the basic points that he made was there are tools

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<v Speaker 2>and functions they would love to release and put out

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<v Speaker 2>into the world, but they are compute constrained. I often

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<v Speaker 2>ask you to quantify demand, but is there a way

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<v Speaker 2>to quantify the severity in the lack of compute, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the deficit that's out there right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, let me just give you some numbers to kind

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<v Speaker 1>of ground what we think the demand environment is looking like.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you think, you know, today we have about

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<v Speaker 1>a billion active users and we're ramping that to you know,

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<v Speaker 1>five billion over the next five years, and we have

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<v Speaker 1>about let's call it, one hundred zet of flops of.

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<v Speaker 4>Compute you know, all around the world.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's just a generic number that that aggregates all

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<v Speaker 1>of that. You know, we think we have to increase

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<v Speaker 1>compute by another one hundred times as you go over

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<v Speaker 1>the next you know, four or five years. And I

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<v Speaker 1>introduced a term last night, the YadA flop. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>people are like, what is a YadA flop? A YadA

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<v Speaker 1>flop is actually ten to the twenty fourth in terms

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<v Speaker 1>of flop.

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<v Speaker 4>So that's a one followed by twenty four zeros.

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<v Speaker 1>And to give you, you know, just a view of

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<v Speaker 1>just how much things have really increased. I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 1>another one hundred times more compute than we have today.

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<v Speaker 1>So that gives you an idea. Now you think, what

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<v Speaker 1>are you going to use all that compute for? I

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<v Speaker 1>mean the truth is, the models that we have today

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<v Speaker 1>are great. I mean they do amazing things. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we talked about a number of use cases. Uh you know,

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps you know one that's you know, very hits very

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<v Speaker 1>close to home is is writing software. Like you know,

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<v Speaker 1>people are using uh, the AI tools right now to

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<v Speaker 1>significantly enhance the productivity of software developers.

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<v Speaker 4>But it's good, but it can get so much better.

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<v Speaker 4>And I mean, I think that's the key point.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>We we like to say that AI is really going

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<v Speaker 1>to be everywhere, and it's really for everyone, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>for each one of us to make our businesses more productive,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, each one of us more productive, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>going forward. And so we're still in the very early

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<v Speaker 1>innings of really unlocking the power of AI.

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<v Speaker 2>So where we stand is we Okay, there's a compute

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<v Speaker 2>deficit and software has kind of hit the limits of

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<v Speaker 2>what current generation.

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<v Speaker 3>Compute can offer.

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<v Speaker 2>Help us understand the bottlenecks and barriers that to deploying

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<v Speaker 2>that compute a lot at the moment about memory chips,

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<v Speaker 2>what else, energy, electricity, what's crossing your desk, Lisa that

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<v Speaker 2>gives you pause and say this is a problem right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, our job as a technology industry is to push

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<v Speaker 1>the bleeding edge.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, that is our job.

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<v Speaker 1>And so you know, when we think about like the

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<v Speaker 1>four fifty five deploying you know two nanimeter and three

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<v Speaker 1>and nanimeter chips, having the latest generation memory high bendw

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<v Speaker 1>with memory that is out there, and really deploying these

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<v Speaker 1>big systems, the important thing is that the entire ecosystem

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<v Speaker 1>come together and we plan together for this next big

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<v Speaker 1>inflection in compute.

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<v Speaker 4>And that's exactly what we're doing right now.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we're working very closely with the entire supply

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<v Speaker 1>chain to ensure that we have the the resources to

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<v Speaker 1>expand this compute environment. And yes, you know some of

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<v Speaker 1>the things that you mentioned are let's call it constrained, but.

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<v Speaker 3>Which is most severely so, you know, I don't.

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<v Speaker 4>Think that's any one thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we're all looking at, you know, how do

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<v Speaker 1>we build faster? You know, certainly power is one of

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<v Speaker 1>those areas where you know, you see throughout the world,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, power is being brought online as fast as possible,

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<v Speaker 1>certainly from a silicon standpoint. You know, we're ramping our

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<v Speaker 1>production capabilities with our partners. From a memory standpoint, our

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<v Speaker 1>partners ramping as well. So it's not any one thing,

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<v Speaker 1>I think, it's all of these things have to go

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<v Speaker 1>sort of in tandem, and that's why partnership is just

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<v Speaker 1>so important in this business.

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<v Speaker 2>We started this conversation talking about helios first, RAC scale

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<v Speaker 2>architecture and infrastructure from AMD, could you talk about the

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<v Speaker 2>future and how much of the content you want to

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<v Speaker 2>own in a server?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, we start this story with the.

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<v Speaker 2>GPU, Frank k If you look at what Nvidia is doing,

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<v Speaker 2>they want to increasingly own all of what's inside the box.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that something that AMD's focused on too.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, what's most important for us is to ensure

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<v Speaker 1>that we have turnkey solutions that are very very easy

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<v Speaker 1>for our customers to deploy, because when you think about,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, how do you use all of this AI

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<v Speaker 1>compute most effectively?

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<v Speaker 4>You want it to go into the data.

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<v Speaker 1>Center and really be up and running on day one,

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<v Speaker 1>and for that you have to optimize a full system.

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<v Speaker 1>But from that standpoint, you know, we are very focused

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<v Speaker 1>on an open ecosystem. So yes, we designed the CPUs

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<v Speaker 1>and the GPUs and some of the networking elements, but

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<v Speaker 1>we also work you know, really with the broad ecosystem

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<v Speaker 1>of partners with industry standards. It's all about ensuring that

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<v Speaker 1>we get the best of all worlds when we put

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<v Speaker 1>our solutions together.

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<v Speaker 2>Looking ahead to m I five hundred twenty twenty seven,

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<v Speaker 2>that has one thousand times the performance of the I

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<v Speaker 2>three hundred generation. So your last generation of real well

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<v Speaker 2>deployed gear. Something's coming that's a thousand times better. How

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<v Speaker 2>did you make it a thousand times better?

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<v Speaker 1>It is just incredible engineering at every level. So m

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<v Speaker 1>I four fifty five is ten times better than the

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<v Speaker 1>trip that we just launched six months ago them I

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<v Speaker 1>three fifty five and m I five hundred is another

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<v Speaker 1>ten x you know. On top of that, we are

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<v Speaker 1>using the most advanced technology out there. We have a

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<v Speaker 1>very you know, very clear focus on you know, hardware, software,

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<v Speaker 1>system code design, and it is you know, clearly the

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<v Speaker 1>pushing the bleeding edge of capabilities.

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<v Speaker 2>What is the status of a m d's ability to

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<v Speaker 2>sell products into China right now?

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<v Speaker 4>So you know, China is an important market for us.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we actually sell a broad range of tips

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<v Speaker 1>into China, including our you know, our PCs as well

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<v Speaker 1>as you know other embedded chips.

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<v Speaker 3>In the data sets context of course, sorry, in the data.

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<v Speaker 1>Center context, we are you know, certainly we see China

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<v Speaker 1>as an important market. We were We did get some

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<v Speaker 1>licenses from the US government you know, late last year

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<v Speaker 1>as it relates to some of our previous generation are

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<v Speaker 1>m I three oh eight you know chips, and we

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<v Speaker 1>are in the process of applying for new licenses with

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<v Speaker 1>ourm I three twenty five chips that were recently allowed

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<v Speaker 1>to apply for licenses. We haven't gotten those licenses yet,

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<v Speaker 1>but we continue to view China as an important market.

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<v Speaker 2>For the reason I ask about it is in part

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<v Speaker 2>because a lot of the work that's being done in

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<v Speaker 2>open source models and bridging the gap between open and

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<v Speaker 2>closed it is being done in China to some extent.

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<v Speaker 2>There's been a lot of discussion about the demands being

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<v Speaker 2>there in China, But could you reflect a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>on that demand, but also what the Chinese government's attitude

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<v Speaker 2>is to you taking a later gen neration of tech

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<v Speaker 2>to the country.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I do think the demand for you know, AI

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<v Speaker 1>in general and in China is high for all the

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<v Speaker 1>reasons that we talked about. I think we are in

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<v Speaker 1>a demand environment where more compute is beneficial across the world.

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<v Speaker 1>We think, you know, China is an important market for US,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's very active in having our solutions deployed, so

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we continue to view it as something that's important.

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<v Speaker 4>We're working with the US government as.

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<v Speaker 1>Well as our Chinese customers, you know, to find good

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<v Speaker 1>solutions there.

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<v Speaker 2>And there are signs from both governments that the licensed

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<v Speaker 2>process is moving. Commerce is kind of notorious for things

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<v Speaker 2>sitting on a desk for quite a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we are optimistic that, you know, we'll have

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<v Speaker 1>an opportunity to get some of those licenses.

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<v Speaker 2>Granted you're watching Bloomberg Television, you're listening to Bloomberg Radio,

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<v Speaker 2>this is Bloomberg Tech, and we live in Las Vegas

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<v Speaker 2>with the A M D CEO, Lisa Sue. Last question,

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<v Speaker 2>really in the data center context, is the markets and

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<v Speaker 2>investors want data and signs that you're taking markets share.

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<v Speaker 2>What would the metrics be that you'd point to, either

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<v Speaker 2>that already exist or over the coming twelve months that

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<v Speaker 2>would evidence that well.

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<v Speaker 1>I think M I four fifty five is a clear

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<v Speaker 1>inflection point in both our technology capability as well as

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<v Speaker 1>the deep partnerships that we have across the industry. So

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<v Speaker 1>we're excited about, you know, what we see in front

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<v Speaker 1>of us. And you know, we've talked about you know,

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<v Speaker 1>tens of billions of dollars in an AI revenue as

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<v Speaker 1>we get into twenty twenty seven, and I think these

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<v Speaker 1>are important metrics, you know, for us as a company

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<v Speaker 1>when we think about the AI potential.

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<v Speaker 2>For all the focus on data centers, some forget that

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<v Speaker 2>a m D is leader in PC in many respects.

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<v Speaker 2>The forecasters have very different opinions of what will happen

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<v Speaker 2>this year. Some see, you know, shrinking market, some see

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<v Speaker 2>modest growth driven literally by just AIPC. You've been able

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<v Speaker 2>to tape market share and grow irrespective of what the

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<v Speaker 2>broader conditions are, but it haven't been great. How have

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<v Speaker 2>you done that and do you expect that to continue

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<v Speaker 2>to be the case.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, the PC market is a very good market for us.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we grew a ton in the PC market

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty five, and that really came from the

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<v Speaker 1>strength of our product portfolio.

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<v Speaker 4>We bet early in aipcs, so.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a clear area where we believe that the

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<v Speaker 1>technology would generate demand. We also went through a refresh

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<v Speaker 1>cycle with Windows eleven, and as we go into twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty six, I think we'll want to see how a

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<v Speaker 1>few quarters play out. I think the general demand for

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<v Speaker 1>computing is certainly there. There are some supplies chain constraints

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<v Speaker 1>that you know, we're working through and we want to

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<v Speaker 1>you know, watch going forward. But you know, our case

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<v Speaker 1>is one where we are still underrepresented in parts of

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<v Speaker 1>the market.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, we are very very strong in gaming, we're

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<v Speaker 4>very strong in consumer.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we're under represented in enterprise laptops, and we view.

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<v Speaker 4>This as a growth area for US.

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<v Speaker 3>Is AI PC change that.

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<v Speaker 1>Aipcs absolutely help in terms of, you know, just the

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<v Speaker 1>upgrade cycle coming in. We're excited about some of our

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<v Speaker 1>work with AI development systems as well. We announced a

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<v Speaker 1>new AI development system last night that you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>think will be also very attractive.

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<v Speaker 2>Those constraints you were talking about in the PC context

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<v Speaker 2>are specifically dram or it's broader than that.

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<v Speaker 4>It's more around the memory side.

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<v Speaker 1>So when you think about memory overall, I think we

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<v Speaker 1>have so much demand coming from let's call it AI

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<v Speaker 1>Data center compute that we want to see how it

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<v Speaker 1>impacts you know, sort of the rest of the memory

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<v Speaker 1>market out there.

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<v Speaker 3>One of the other areas that you discussed with Greg.

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<v Speaker 2>Brockman on stage from Open AI was sort of the

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<v Speaker 2>net or broad economic impact of AI, not just for

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<v Speaker 2>the companies. I think you were talking more about economy again,

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<v Speaker 2>very difficulty, so that how does one measure progress in

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<v Speaker 2>whether AI has or has not had a direct positive

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<v Speaker 2>economic impact around the world in any given year.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, It's true, it's hard to deconvolve all of

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<v Speaker 1>the things that are happening. But I think from a

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<v Speaker 1>sense of you know, what we see in the business,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, many people want to see direct return

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<v Speaker 1>on investment for a particular a set of investments, what

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<v Speaker 1>I would say is that we know that AI.

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<v Speaker 4>Is making a difference in the productivity of companies.

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<v Speaker 1>We know that I can see that, you know, within

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<v Speaker 1>a MD in terms of as we deploy AI, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're able to get products to market faster, We're able

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<v Speaker 1>to you know, significantly improve some of our business processes.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, as we go forward over the next

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<v Speaker 1>several years, I think you're going to see that much

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<v Speaker 1>broader enterprises. Every CEO that I talked to is talking

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<v Speaker 1>about AI. It is front and center in terms of

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<v Speaker 1>how to build a better company, how to build the

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<v Speaker 1>better portfolio, and so you know, I think what you

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<v Speaker 1>know Greg was talking about is when you aggregate all

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<v Speaker 1>of that, AI has to impact you know the world

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<v Speaker 1>at a GDP level, and we'll see that over the

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<v Speaker 1>next few years.

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<v Speaker 2>You're watching Bloomberg Television, you're listening to Bloomberg Radio. This

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<v Speaker 2>is Bloomberg Tech and we're live in Las Vegas. We're

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<v Speaker 2>speaking to A m d's CEO, Lisa Sue. You are

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<v Speaker 2>an investor in Generative baronyx's also technology partner, and they

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<v Speaker 2>have unveiled a humanoid robot here at Las Vegas cees.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, if the magic of television can happen, and

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<v Speaker 2>we cut to the why.

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<v Speaker 3>Do we have to see it in the background? Right?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, this is the first tangible sign I feel

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<v Speaker 2>we've seen from AM and D on how you intend

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<v Speaker 2>to play in physical AI. Yes, explain your strategy. It

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<v Speaker 2>is the next big market, right, Yes.

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<v Speaker 1>And I wouldn't say it's the first time, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>probably one of the areas where we don't highlight as

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<v Speaker 1>much because there's so much focused on data center and

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<v Speaker 1>cloud and the opportunities there are you know, very much.

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<v Speaker 4>In front of us.

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<v Speaker 1>But when we look at physical AI, you know, starting

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<v Speaker 1>from all of the work we've done in FPGAs and

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<v Speaker 1>embedded real time you know capability, we have been in

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<v Speaker 1>this space for a long time. You know, we already

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<v Speaker 1>power a lot of robotic applications you know out there.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think as we go into the humanoid capability,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, we're excited about our partnership with you know,

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<v Speaker 1>g Bionics and the work with on June one, I

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<v Speaker 1>think that takes us to another level in terms of

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<v Speaker 1>capability and intelligence and what we're trying to do so.

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<v Speaker 2>Is the business model to be all things the brain

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<v Speaker 2>inside of the humanoid robot and inference side that, the

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<v Speaker 2>underlying software being traded on a trained on a m

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<v Speaker 2>D accelerators. Just I don't what's to go to the market,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess is what I'm asking you should.

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<v Speaker 1>Expect that our partnerships extend all through all of those levels,

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<v Speaker 1>so we have the components that can power the humanoid robots,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, sort of real time local capability, which is

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<v Speaker 1>a very very important and then we also have the

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<v Speaker 1>technology behind that in terms of, you know, how to

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<v Speaker 1>train and inference on these humanoids.

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<v Speaker 3>When last we met in person, it was in Washington,

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<v Speaker 3>d C.

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<v Speaker 2>And the President had just outlined a broad strategy for

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<v Speaker 2>America in AI and it really centered around infrastructure deregulation

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<v Speaker 2>allowing those building the infrastructure to move faster. That was

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<v Speaker 2>kind of in the second half of last year. In

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<v Speaker 2>the months that have followed, have you seen any signs

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<v Speaker 2>that it worked and anything that you could point to

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<v Speaker 2>that says, yeah, people are able to build faster maybe

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<v Speaker 2>to address some of the compute deficits we discussed.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I can say for sure, you know, the President's

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<v Speaker 1>AI action plan. You know, when we met, and I

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<v Speaker 1>think this was back in July when it came out,

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<v Speaker 1>I was very optimistic about having a really forward leaning

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<v Speaker 1>strategy from you know, sort of the whole view of

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<v Speaker 1>what does it take for the US to lead an AI.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think we've made a ton of progress along

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<v Speaker 1>the way. And you know, I had Michael Kratzios joined

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<v Speaker 1>us last night on stage as well to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>the Genesis Mission, which is you know, another you know,

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<v Speaker 1>sort of public private partnership approach to really advanced science

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<v Speaker 1>in the United States, and when you look at you know,

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<v Speaker 1>all of these things, you know, building faster, ensuring that

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<v Speaker 1>we have you know, the right export controls so that

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<v Speaker 1>we were able to have the US stack adopted.

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<v Speaker 3>Across the controls.

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<v Speaker 4>Currently, we are certainly working.

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<v Speaker 1>Very closely with uh, you know, the the various parties

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<v Speaker 1>in the US government to ensure that we have the

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<v Speaker 1>right balance there. And we also have you know, this

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<v Speaker 1>notion of how do we invest more here and ensure

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<v Speaker 1>that in the United States that we are you know,

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<v Speaker 1>running as fast as possible to bring you AI capacity

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<v Speaker 1>you know online, to help us in you know, science

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<v Speaker 1>and you know sort of the broader you know, economic benefits.

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<v Speaker 2>Lisa, what what happens in twenty twenty six, what happens

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<v Speaker 2>in the world of AI, and what do you think

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<v Speaker 2>will define this year in terms of the progress that

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<v Speaker 2>your industry hopes to make.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I started our keynote last night with the sentence

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<v Speaker 1>that you know, you ain't seen nothing yet.

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<v Speaker 4>That's really how I feel.

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<v Speaker 1>I Mean, we're sitting here in January and it's just

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<v Speaker 1>amazing how much progress is made, you know, every week

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<v Speaker 1>and every month when we see how these models are developing,

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<v Speaker 1>when we see how the use cases are developing, and

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<v Speaker 1>then when we see the tangible results on businesses and outcomes,

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<v Speaker 1>I believe that, you know, we saw a good amount

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<v Speaker 1>of that, you know, come to Fruition in twenty twenty five.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going to see much more of that in twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty six, So that everyone should understand that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>AI is not just you know, hype out there. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not just you know, sort of things that people are

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<v Speaker 1>talking about in the investment community. It's things that people

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<v Speaker 1>are using every day, real time and feeling like, Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>my life is better because I have this technology.

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<v Speaker 4>And I think we're going to see that in twenty

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<v Speaker 4>twenty six.

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<v Speaker 2>Lisa suit AMD CEO AMD with it's in the world's

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<v Speaker 2>first two animeter chip going into Helos, its first rack

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<v Speaker 2>scale system solution