- AMD CEO Lisa Su praises AI capabilities and promise at London Tech Week 2026
- “We’re here to use technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, to achieve things we never thought possible,” she says.
- But Su also cautions: “We are still so early in the process.”
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, praised the early progress AI has made in just a few years, but also cautioned that the technology still has a way to go to reach true utility for everyone.
“I love talking about AI, because it has so much capability and promise,” Su told attendees at London Tech Week 2026, “if you look at the last few years, there has been so much progress, and we have clearly seen AI move from research initiatives to something that everyone is using.”
“But what I like to say is 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 in the early days of AI for science… in terms of what AI can do to really push the frontiers of science, and we’re still very early in what AI can do for the enterprise – I can tell you that every month we see in the enterprise, that we’re moving AI from something we’re experimenting with to something that actually changes the way we do business.
“Computing is actually synonymous with intelligence”
Su was speaking at London Tech Week, where she also revealed that AMD would “significantly” increase its investment in the UK.
The company plans to spend up to £2 billion over the next five years, including supporting areas of advanced computing, scientific research and workforce development, in a bid to support what Su called the UK’s “incredibly vibrant ecosystem”.
“Overall, we want to invest in the UK because it’s generally good for AMD’s business,” she said.
Elsewhere, Su stressed that AMD’s goal was to “build the best performing chips” and that the company was using AI extensively through its own research and development to achieve this.
“What I’m really passionate about is ensuring that AI infrastructure provides capabilities that everyone has access to,” she noted. “We’re in this phase where computation is actually the foundation – I like to say that computation actually equates to intelligence – and so when I sit in a room with entrepreneurs and developers, everyone says to me, ‘you know, I’d like more computation’!”
“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 compute that will satisfy all AI applications – in fact, we need a whole range of compute, whether it’s the latest accelerators, agentic AI, processors, or the general AI infrastructure in terms of networking – that’s what it’s about, because it needs to be the whole ecosystem coming together and collaborating across all of these foundational elements – that’s what we really believe in at AMD.
“My view is that we are here to use technology to solve some of the world’s most important problems, to achieve things we never thought possible,” Su added.
“AI is the tool that helps each of us become a better researcher, 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 an early time.”
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