"Lisa, welcome to Stanford. >> Wonderful, it's so great to be here. >> It is a pleasure and an even greater honor to have you with us here today. >> Thank you. >> Many of us have followed your career a..."

">> That sounds wonderful, thank you. >> Great, so you were born in Taiwan, and immigrated to New York with your parents at the age of two. What was it like growing up at the nexus of two cultures? And..."

">> [LAUGH] >> That doesn't seem to have held you back, though. [LAUGH] Now, what drew you towards a career in semiconductors and building chips, as opposed to academia or any other career? >> Yeah, ab..."

"work for graduate student and running some of it's experiments. And I thought it was so amazing that you could actually put on, sort of, a tiny little chip, so much power. And at that time, it wasn't ..."

"and working on real-world things, what I've enjoyed the most in what I do is like the work that we're doing with chips and products. You can actually go and you can walk down to Best Buy and see some ..."

"first got into engineering. And to your question of, engineering versus business, or engineering versus people management. Again, I'd like to say that I grew up at IBM, that was the place where I spen..."

"So it was, I'm sorry, John Carter, did I say that? Is that okay for me to say? >> [LAUGH] >> So, the truth is there was just a lot of on-the-job training. And the beauty of career development is when ..."

"much just from observing. And so I view that as somebody took a chance on me, it's one of the most impactful experiences of my career in terms of just understanding what life would be like as a CEO. A..."

"I had a great run at Freescale Semiconductor, it was my first opportunity in the C-suite. So I was CTO of the company and then I ran one of the larger businesses. And then I was like hey, I need to tr..."

"whether you're talking about businesses economies national security, all of those things, so that's why I joined AMD. And the opportunity at that time was a industry that was going through just a ton ..."

"the leadership was in transition. So I joined in 2012 to run the business units, there was no concept of business units, PNLs, those kinds of things, so there was a lot of transformation to be done th..."

"that was back in October, 2014 and some things I remember very well. >> Well, it definitely wasn't easy when you joined the helm, the company was at the brink of bankruptcy, and the share price was ho..."

"All of you have probably heard about Moore's law, Moore's law was the idea that, basically, continuing to double the amount of capability reduce the price every two years. Moore's Law was essentially ..."

"day operation. And so from the AMD culture standpoint what I'd like to believe is that everybody in the company is here because we love pushing the bleeding edge of technology. If you want to join AMD..."

"the best products out there. >> I love that, a learning culture is something we can all take home with us, now, I want to shift over to talking a bit about the industry and AI, the semiconductor indus..."

"that's what we try to do. I'd like to say we are a global company in the sense that we operate across every part of the world. But as it relates to critical technology, we're very much focused on ensu..."

"where we are in technology today. It is an incredibly exciting time in technology today. If you had asked me 5 years ago the rate and pace of AI adoption that we've seen over the last 18 months, I mea..."

"So to your question about inference versus training, I think that is a little bit more in terms of the tactics of a given year. I would step back from that and say, at the end of the day, you're going..."

"we're focused on. >> That's very helpful, thank you. I'd like to talk a little bit about AMD software as well. So some have said that AMD is the Android to Nvidia's Apple, more open, more flexible, bu..."

"I think that's actually a secondary point. The primary point is you have a new model, an open model that had some very innovative ways of putting things together based on what other people have done. ..."

">> Right, well, while we're on the topic of milestones in the future, we're joined by many MBA students, most of whom were born at the cusp of the Internet and are now graduating on the cusp of the AI..."

">> Right, and so if we take that change, will be a constant. How do you stay focused yet nimble at the same time and executing on your kind of five-year milestone? >> Well, I think the key is to alway..."

">> We're exited to see what AMD will do next. Now before we open up for the audience Q&A, I have one more question for you. The theme for this year's view from the top is reading your mark. So one que..."

">> I love that. Now we'll open up audience Q&A. There's a couple of mics running around. If you're selected, please state your name, your Stanford affiliation, and then your question. >> Hi, Lisa. My ..."

"advance and progress going forward. >> Thanks so much for coming, my name is Derek, I'm an MBA one. I'm also from Taiwan, so a huge inspiration to me, and my question is, Apple, earlier today, announc..."

"matter what happens, you have access to the most important components locally in region. And so US manufacturing continues to be a very big topic of conversation. I'm a big believer proponent that we ..."

"bit of time. >> I'm Iconecas I'm a principal at future ventures at Deep Tech VC, second year, MBA. There's talk of a potential over build in data centers. Microsoft has started to lease their data cen..."

">> Thank God. >> Thank you so much. It's been really fun. It's a view from the top tradition to end with a couple of rapid fire questions. So I'm going to ask you a question and you say the first thou..."