Su noted the Frontier supercomputer as a crowning jewel of the hard work the company put in to reshape its image to a leader in computing technologies, and that it can go neck-to-neck with rivals. The journey back to profitability included a bet on its x86 Zen CPU design, recommitting to the server market after flailing with its Opteron server line and abandoning Arm architecture, and the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando, which are already profitable.
The company also laid out an ambitious roadmap in which it is diversifying risk by investing in a wider set of chips beyond just CPUs and GPUs. The company was playing second fiddle to Intel in PCs and datacenters, and its road to profitability hinged mostly on its chips appearing in Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4.Īround the same time, AMD set a goal to be the first chipmaker to pass the exaflops computing threshold, which it did with the Frontier supercomputer topping the most recent Top500 supercomputing charts, said CEO Lisa Su, when reflecting on the company’s past during the financial analyst day held this week.ĪMD reversed course and returned to profitability, and presentations at the analyst day hinted at the company learning from the rough past. Since 1987 - Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run ThemĬlose to a decade ago, AMD was in turmoil.
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