Quotes from Lisa Su

I went to school at MIT with a whole bunch of engineers. And then I started work one day and asked myself, 'Why do all of these MIT Ph.D.s work for Harvard M.B.A.s?' Why should it be like that? I was one of those engineers who thought, 'Why are these people making those dumb decisions?' So it's fun to be the person making them.

Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.

What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.

My dad was a mathematician and worked for New York City as a statistician. My mom was an accountant and eventually started her own business in her mid-40s. She linked manufacturers in Taiwan to companies in the United States that needed those types of products.

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.

I have extremely high standards.

I was born in Taiwan and came to the United States when I was 2.

I do think the blockchain infrastructure is here to stay.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.

The key for us is always a multiple-year strategy, and a multiple-year strategy means great products, great customer relationships, and doing solid engineering.

I'll say it this way: AMD is a company that generates very strong opinions. There are some people who really like us and are really rooting for us. And then there are some people who say we'll never be able to compete against some of our bigger competitors.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

We do really, really well for content creation and anybody who likes to run videos or edit videos and high performance games.

As one of the most important global events for our industry, I look forward to Computex each year.

I've spent my entire career in semiconductors.

Putting you into a virtual world really allows you to think differently.

I grew up in the IBM school of management.

Market share is key.