Aaron Pressman, Betting It All, with Brand-New Chips. Over the past decades, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has plunged from innovator to also-ran. CEO Lisa Su is counting on a bold advance in the technology to power it back up. Fortune, July 1, 2017.
http://fortune.com/2017/06/28/amd-ai-chips-comeback/
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(a) Important things do not start until the middle of this article, in a paragraph that starts with: "That history is tightly intertwined with that of AMD's far bigger rival, Intel. Both companies were founded by engineers and executives from semiconductor pioneer Fairchild.
(b) AMD is now in the business of chip design, having divested its fabs (to GlobalFoundries).
(c) Sure I wish AMD success. But its CEO Lisa T Su 蘇姿豐 is helmsman of a sinking ship, much like John Chen 程守宗 (born in Hong Kong; since 2013 chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Ltd, formerly known as Research in Motion).
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