- AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su praises AI capabilities and promises at London Tech Week 2026
- ‘We are here to use technology to solve some of the world’s most important problems, to do things we never thought possible,’ she says
- But Su also warns, “we’re still so early in the process”
AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, has hailed the early progress AI has made in just a few years, but has also warned that the technology still has some way to go before it reaches true usability for everyone.
“I love talking about artificial intelligence because it has so much potential and promise,” Su told attendees at London Tech Week 2026, “if you look at the last few years, there’s been so much progress and we’ve clearly seen AI go from being research initiatives to something that everyone uses.”
“But what I like to say is that we’re still so early in the process…I think we’re early in the research and development phase as we think about new models and where they’re going, we’re early in AI for science…in terms of what AI can do to really push the boundaries of science, and we’re still very early in what AI can do for the business—I can tell you that we’re taking something from the business every month we’re experimenting with something that actually changes the way we do business.”
“Compute actually equals intelligence”
Su was speaking at London Tech Week, where she also revealed that AMD would increase its investment in the UK “significantly”.
The company plans to spend up to £2 billion over the next five years, including support across the areas of advanced computing, scientific research and workforce development, as it looks to support what Su called the “incredibly vibrant ecosystem” in the UK.
“Overall, we want to invest in the UK as it’s good for business overall for AMD,” she declared.
Elsewhere, Su noted how AMD’s goal is “to build the highest performance chips” and how the company used AI extensively through our own research and development to achieve this.
“What I’m very passionate about is making sure that the AI infrastructure enables capabilities that everyone in the world has access to,” she noted, “we’re in this phase where computing is actually the foundation—I like to say that computing actually equals intelligence—and so when I sit in a room with entrepreneurs and developers, you know, everybody knows that I”!
“I think compute is a foundation — but I think what’s important and what we’re learning is that there’s not one type of computer that’s going to satisfy every AI application — in fact, we need a whole range of computers, whether you’re talking about the latest accelerators, you’re talking about Agentic AI, the CPUs, or general AI infrastructure, because you need what this is about networking — and collaboration across all of those fundamentals — that’s what we really believe in AMD.”
“My view is that we are here to use technology to solve some of the world’s most important problems, to do things we never thought possible,” Su added.
“AI is the tool that helps each of us become a better scientist, or a better engineer, or a better entrepreneur … technology is only as useful as the problems we solve.”
“It’s an exciting time, but it’s important for us to realize that it’s also early days.”
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