Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su said Tuesday that artificial intelligence has not slowed the gait of hiring astatine her company, but the candidates who person genuinely embraced the exertion person go a priority.
"I would accidental that we're really not hiring less people," Su told CNBC's Jon Fortt connected Tuesday from the CES league successful Las Vegas. "Frankly, we're increasing precise importantly arsenic a company, truthful we really are hiring tons of people, but we're hiring antithetic people. We're hiring radical who are AI forward."
AMD develops the graphics processing portion (GPU) chips that bid models and tally ample AI workloads, placing the institution firmly astatine the halfway of the AI boom. It competes straight Nvidia, which dominates the AI spot situation with much than 90% of the marketplace share, according to immoderate estimates.
After AI exploded into the mainstream pursuing the motorboat of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot astir 3 years ago, the technology's accelerated emergence has prompted concerns astir occupation information and the aboriginal of the labour market.
AMD is incorporating AI into however the institution builds, designs, manufactures and tests chips, and Su said the candidates who "truly embrace" it are the ones getting hired.
Su's comments travel a time aft Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said AI is causing large companies to slow hiring. He said helium expects to spot continued debased hiring and debased firing successful the labour market.
As of December 2024, AMD had astir 28,000 employees worldwide, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
"I would accidental that AI is augmenting our capabilities," Su said. "It's not replacing people, it's really conscionable augmenting our productivity successful presumption of the fig of products we tin bring up astatine immoderate fixed time."
WATCH: Watch CNBC’s afloat interrogation with AMD CEO Lisa Su
English (US) ·