Quotes from Lisa Su

AMD loves gamers.

Do we care about gaming? We absolutely care.

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

Diversifying the business is definitely a good thing.

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That's the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.

My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there. After he graduated, we ended up settling in New York, so I grew up there.

Gamers love technology, and they have high expectations.

Gaming brings people together.

Don't worry about the financials. Just focus on delivering great products.

I am grateful for the continued opportunity to take risks and learn from my mistakes as we at AMD strive to use technology to help solve some of the world's toughest challenges.

Gamers are some of the toughest people to please. They have extreme requirements. They want everything.

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.

One of the most important things for a CEO is not to get insulated.

Yes, our competition may have significantly more engineers or significantly more R&D investment. On the other hand, we have significantly more freedom. We have the freedom to innovate.

My philosophy is, I can't make every product that can possibly use a high-performance CPU and graphics. Why shouldn't I enable others, in a positive fashion, to leverage AMD IP in more places?

My view of AMD is that we have a tremendous set of technology assets, people, capability, customer relationships. We're not going to define ourselves in somebody else's shadow.

Being CEO of AMD is a tremendous opportunity to influence the industry and influence the future of computing.

Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.

I did a lot of engineering things, like taking apart my brother's model car when I was 10. I also played the piano for about 10 years. I auditioned for Juilliard but didn't get in.

One of the key things is, when you look at semiconductor companies, it's all about experience.

Great graphics requires more than just high-performance hardware. Gamers know software is just as important.

We see incredible opportunity to solve some of the biggest social challenges we have by combining high-performance computing and AI - such as climate change and more.

There is a mentality that if you're a long time AMDer, that we're x86: we know what we're doing, and it's just about building better x86 devices.