News AMD's Lisa Su Joins Bloomberg 50

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Bloomberg named AMD CEO Lisa Su to its "Bloomberg 50" list of influential people for 2019.

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[JayNor]

I guess you can give AMD credit for getting out of the fab business.

Every once in a while process scientists come up with a novel invention like Optane. Did AMD keep around any people like that?

I wonder if AMD can even respond adequately to Intel's Foveros 3D and EMIB inventions without having their own fab. I saw an article here with Norrod talking about a 3D program, but you have to wonder how much AMD can control what TSMC works on, and with what kind of urgency or priority.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-3d-memory-stacking-dram,38838.html

 

[Blitz Hacker]

I guess you can give AMD credit for getting out of the fab business.

Every once in a while process scientists come up with a novel invention like Optane. Did AMD keep around any people like that?

I wonder if AMD can even respond adequately to Intel's Foveros 3D and EMIB inventions without having their own fab. I saw an article here with Norrod talking about a 3D program, but you have to wonder how much AMD can control what TSMC works on, and with what kind of urgency or priority.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-3d-memory-stacking-dram,38838.html

Seems to be working, and yes being at the mercy of another company that you can't control might present future issues with the supply chains.. but ironically intel has been the one with supply chain issues (maybe they tried to keep 100% inhouse for additional profit?) Either way Intel still is having supply shortages on 14nm, I mean maybe the new AMD craze will drop demand so it won't be an issue any longer. but generally not the way you want to fix supply problems. Also there's a good chance that HEDT/Enterprise markets may very well switch to AMD (aswell as prefab PC builds (ie Dell) because their bottom line is being killed by intel's lack of supply) Either way it's good to see some competition so we can get on with better tech and stop the eye watering price gouging that Intel has been doing for the better part of a decade now. Just waiting for intel to hit AMD back .. hope this goes on for awhile.. We need a competitive market for the consumers, not a 'replacement intel'

 

[bit_user]

I guess you can give AMD credit for getting out of the fab business.

That was long before she took charge, though.

Every once in a while process scientists come up with a novel invention like Optane.

Luckily, Micron shares rights to that tech and could partner with AMD to ensure they're not locked out of the 3D XPoint DIMM market.

I wonder if AMD can even respond adequately to Intel's Foveros 3D and EMIB inventions without having their own fab.

AFAIK, AMD was first to market with HBM, in their Fury GPUs. Their EPYC CPUs also leapfrogged Intel, in moving to multi-die. So, these two examples tell me that AMD can still innovate at the package level.

I saw an article here with Norrod talking about a 3D program, but you have to wonder how much AMD can control what TSMC works on, and with what kind of urgency or priority.

I'm sure TSMC understands the need to stay competitive, here. There are potential mobile applications of that tech, and lots of AI, HPC, and other server chips that will want to use it.