CEO Lisa Su says AMD is recruiting more AI-focused talent, not fewer workers

AMD CEO Lisa Su has said that AI is not cutting jobs at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), adding that hiring is still rising and the company is adding staff across teams. Speaking Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas, Lisa said that AMD is not slowing recruitment. “We’re actually not hiring fewer people,” Lisa said. “We’re growing very significantly as a company, so we are hiring lots of people, but we’re hiring different people. We’re hiring people who are AI forward.” She spoke while the company continues to scale production of chips tied to AI systems. AMD builds graphics processing units used to train AI models and run large workloads. That puts the company in direct competition with Nvidia, which controls more than 90% of the AI chip market by some estimates. The rise of AI followed the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT roughly three years ago. Since then, concerns about job...

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