Wednesday, September 4th 2024
AMD Appoints AI Industry Veteran Keith Strier to Expand Global AI Capabilities and Engagements
AMD today announced that Keith Strier has joined the company as senior vice president of global AI markets. Strier has more than 30 years of experience in strategic business and market development, technical engineering and enabling responsible AI deployments. He most recently served as vice president of worldwide AI initiatives at NVIDIA, with responsibility for expanding commercial engagements with foreign governments. At AMD, he will be responsible for expanding the company's AI vision, driving new ecosystem capabilities and accelerating strategic AI engagements globally across public and private sectors. He reports to AMD Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Mark Papermaster.
"Keith is an excellent addition to our leadership team, bringing deep market expertise and extensive network of relationships that will significantly strengthen our AI engagements globally," said AMD Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. "His extensive experience and proven track record acting as a trusted advisor to countries and companies uniquely positions him to help accelerate adoption of AMD-powered solutions to meet the growing demand for AI."
"I am honored to join AMD at this pivotal moment," said Strier. "Since contributing to the first national AI plans in 2017, my mission has been to unlock the full potential of AI. My goal is to make the transformative power of AI more accessible and inclusive for people around the world, and I am excited about the clear opportunity to advance this mission at AMD."
Prior to Nvidia, Strier served as the first global AI leader for EY, where he guided Fortune 500 and public sector customers on AI deployments, and was also the first global chief digital officer for Deloitte. He sits on multiple global AI policy and advisory boards, including the U.S. National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC). He also served as Founding Chair of the AI Compute and Climate Expert Group for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where he was instrumental in developing the blueprint for building domestic computing capacity to guide strategy and investment into sovereign AI infrastructure.
Strier earned a bachelor of science with honors from Cornell University and a juris doctorate from the New York University School of Law.
"Keith is an excellent addition to our leadership team, bringing deep market expertise and extensive network of relationships that will significantly strengthen our AI engagements globally," said AMD Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. "His extensive experience and proven track record acting as a trusted advisor to countries and companies uniquely positions him to help accelerate adoption of AMD-powered solutions to meet the growing demand for AI."
Prior to Nvidia, Strier served as the first global AI leader for EY, where he guided Fortune 500 and public sector customers on AI deployments, and was also the first global chief digital officer for Deloitte. He sits on multiple global AI policy and advisory boards, including the U.S. National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC). He also served as Founding Chair of the AI Compute and Climate Expert Group for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where he was instrumental in developing the blueprint for building domestic computing capacity to guide strategy and investment into sovereign AI infrastructure.
Strier earned a bachelor of science with honors from Cornell University and a juris doctorate from the New York University School of Law.
10 Comments on AMD Appoints AI Industry Veteran Keith Strier to Expand Global AI Capabilities and Engagements
Read somewhere AI has failed two times before and software development was faster then what AI could keep up with.
Let's see if third time is the charm.
So, AMD's only bet to make enough money the next 3-4 years is AI. As long as they are competitive with Nvidia, H100 at least, they can hope to start attracting more customers to their products by becoming really serious in AI by expanding and enriching their AI platform.
Combined with hallucinations, which is a fundamental flaw with this approach.
What we have so far, is a lot of hype without any questions being asked.
That at least means that wall street is starting to doubt whether this nonstop pouring of money into AI will ever see a return.
What options does AMD currently have if they want to reuse CUDA? Nvidia banned cross-compiling (the Zluda project) but they are still allowed to reuse/replicate the language/API, is that correct?
Edit: between last quarter and this quarter data center revenue might go up a billion in just 3 months according to AMD guidance.