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Robbie Whelan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
91 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

I'm going to pivot the entire company.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

She says, you know, artificial intelligence is rising.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

And we are positioned in a very special way for us to take advantage of that.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

She said, we're going to revamp our entire product line so that it's now all oriented around artificial intelligence.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

And this was a major turning point.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

ChatGPT was trained on NVIDIA's chips.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

It took seeing a product like ChatGPT for most people in the world to realize how big NVIDIA was going to get, how big AI was going to get, and I think that that was the real talent that Lisa Su has that shined through in this moment.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

She said, this is going to change everything, and we have to be in front of it.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

Exactly.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

She goes top to bottom and revamps AMD's entire product line.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

She rolls out three or four generations of what's called the Instinct Series GPU.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

So this is the first time AMD

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

in the modern era, in the AI era, is directly competing with NVIDIA.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

And to be honest, they have a hard time

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

competing with NVIDIA.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

I mean, the first few generations of the instinct were generally regarded in the market as not as powerful, not as easy to use as NVIDIA's equivalents.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

But that's okay for a company like AMD, because what they're doing there is they're trying to get a foothold.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

They're testing out these products, and they're trying to find customers to sign up and commit to using them.

The Journal.
The Tech CEO Leading Nvidia's Main Rival

So in AI computing, there are two main functions that people need to utilize.