- AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su Praises the Capabilities and Promise of AI at London Tech Week 2026
- “We’re here to use technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, to do things we never thought were possible,” he says.
- But Su also warns: “We are still at a very early stage in the process.”
Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, praised the early advances made by AI in just a few years, but also cautioned that the technology still has some way to go to achieve true utility for everyone.
“I love talking about AI, because it has a lot of power and promise,” Su told attendees at London Tech Week 2026, “if you look at the last few years, there’s been a lot of progress, and we’ve clearly seen AI move from research initiatives to something that everyone is using.”
“But what I like to say is that we are still very early in the process… I think we are in the early stages of the research and development phase, as we think about new models and where they go, we are in the early stages of AI for science… in terms of what AI can do to really push the boundaries of science, and we are still very early in what AI can do for companies. I can tell you that every month we are seeing in companies, that we are taking AI from something that we experiment with, to something that we actually “It changes the way we do business.”
“Computer science is actually equivalent to intelligence”
Su spoke at London Tech Week, where he also revealed that AMD would “substantially” increase its investment in the UK.
The company plans to spend up to £2 billion over the next five years, including support in the fields of advanced computing, scientific research and workforce development, as it seeks to support what Su called the “incredibly vibrant ecosystem” in the UK.
“Overall, we want to invest in the UK as it is good for AMD’s overall business,” he stated.
Separately, Su noted that AMD’s goal is to “build higher-performance 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 enables capabilities that everyone in the world has access to,” he said, “we’re in this phase where computing is actually the foundation, I like to say that computing actually equals intelligence, and that’s why when I sit in a room with entrepreneurs and developers, they all say, ‘You know, I wish we had more computing’!”
“I think computing is a foundation, but I think the important thing, and what we’re learning, is that there’s not one type of computing that will satisfy all AI applications; in fact, we need a lot of computing, whether we’re talking about the latest accelerators, whether we’re talking about agent AI, CPUs, or the overall AI infrastructure in terms of networking, that’s what it’s about, because you need the entire ecosystem to come together and collaborate across all of those building blocks; that’s what I really believe in AMD.”
“My view is that we are here to use technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, to do things we never thought were possible,” Su added.
“AI is the tool that helps each of us become better researchers, better engineers or better entrepreneurs…technology is only as useful as the problems we solve.”
“It’s an exciting time, but it’s important that we realize it’s also early.”
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