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When Dr Su took over - there was no coherent product roadmap at AMD. There were various headless zombie projects because of a management exodus around 2012. Dr
by viewtransform 3y ago
When Dr Su took over - there was no coherent product roadmap at AMD. There were various headless zombie projects because of a management exodus around 2012.
Dr Su made some decisive calls to stop projects and placed a prescient long term bet on high-performance computing.
She shut down low-power tablet asic designs, shut down the SeaMicro acquisition, shutdown Keller's K12 ARM chip, shutdown a large monolithic CPU/GPU asic with shared memory and planned a shift from Global Foundries to TSMC.
Deep Learning was not on the radar unfortunately. It fell under Raja Koduri's group and he made an unfortunate bet on Virtual Reality (way before Zuckerburg started his metaverse fantasy).
It the end it helped that Intel stumbled badly allowing AMD to recover financially.