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AMD loves gamers.
Market share is key.
Gaming brings people together.
I have extremely high standards.
I just really love building chips.
Clarity of communication is important.
I grew up in the IBM school of management.
Do we care about gaming? We absolutely care.
Our core competency is really in processors.
I've spent my entire career in semiconductors.
Diversifying the business is definitely a good thing.
I just had a great curiosity about how things worked.
Gamers love technology, and they have high expectations.
I do think the blockchain infrastructure is here to stay.
I was born in Taiwan and came to the United States when I was 2.
I'm a big believer in using the best IP for a given application.
One of the most important things for a CEO is not to get insulated.
There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.
I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.
I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.
I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.
Putting you into a virtual world really allows you to think differently.
Don't worry about the financials. Just focus on delivering great products.
There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.
We really want to be the leading designer and integrator of tailored solutions.
I like the PC market. It's a big market, but it's a very volatile market as well.
Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.
The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.
We're so excited about technology. We can help turn the impossible into the possible.
We're absolutely passionate about making sure gamers have the latest and greatest drivers.
It's a day-one expectation that when you buy a processor, it's not going to leak your data.
When I see some of the work in the commercial PC sector, some of our top focus is in India.
One of the key things is, when you look at semiconductor companies, it's all about experience.
As one of the most important global events for our industry, I look forward to Computex each year.
The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.
Gamers are some of the toughest people to please. They have extreme requirements. They want everything.
Traditional computing is always going to be a part of AMD's business, but our technology can go further.
If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.
Great graphics requires more than just high-performance hardware. Gamers know software is just as important.
Being CEO of AMD is a tremendous opportunity to influence the industry and influence the future of computing.
What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.
I think AMD is at our best when we're working with a customer and allowing them to do something they couldn't do before.
Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.
As we looked at the server market, we know very well that the data-center market takes time to ramp with any new product.
What India is doing in promoting technology and broadband access and PCs for the population is an important market for us.
We do really, really well for content creation and anybody who likes to run videos or edit videos and high performance games.
Everyone in the semiconductor industry, everyone in the technology industry, would benefit from more diversity in the business.
Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.
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.
Electrical engineering, particularly at MIT, was the hardest major, so I said, 'You know, how about we try that and see how it goes.'