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LISA SU: THE LONG WAY TO THE LOOKOUT

By Zimbo · October 20, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel cartoon of AMD CEO Lisa Su's climb: MIT degrees into chips; Freescale CTO, 2007; walking into a crumbling AMD, 2012; COO, CEO, then chair; swinging the MI300 at Nvidia in 2023 — at the lookout, Nvidia has run faster.
Lisa Su, AMD's chair and CEO, hauled herself from three MIT degrees through Texas Instruments, IBM, and the Freescale CTO toolbox to a broken AMD in 2012 — COO in July 2014, CEO that October, chair in 2022 — and swung the MI300 straight at Nvidia. She chased Nvidia. Nvidia ran faster.Zimbo for AI News Page

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Su life strip: three MIT EE degrees, TI + 13 IBM years; 2007 Freescale CTO; 2012 crumbling AMD; 2014 COO to CEO in four months; 2022 chair, 2023 MI300 swung at Nvidia; lookout finale with Jensen Huang on a flatbed of MI300 crates over the NVIDIA-green valley — SHE CHASED NVIDIA. NVIDIA RAN FASTER.THE CHIP CHASERSatirical cartoon: three giant suited arms with ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent cuff labels claw at a tiny stack of three RTX PRO 5500 boxes on a black Nvidia vendor table; Jensen Huang grins behind it, holding an empty shipping box upside down; a small tabby cat watches.CHINA ORDERS $35B IN CHIPS NVIDIA CAN'T MAKESatirical cartoon: Jensen Huang in a leather jacket beams beside a giant open bank vault labeled OPEN WEIGHTS; inside sits a worried robot clutching papers labeled MODEL while a gold $25B price tag hangs on the vault door; a tabby cat watches impassively.OPEN FOR BUSINESSSatirical cartoon: the anxious robot Merv and robot dog Buddy watch a laptop whose exposed back reveals a glowing golden brain wired to an 'RTX SPARK' chip, while a dotted line rises to a distant datacenter cloud waving goodbye; a Microsoft-logo mug sits on the desk.THE CLOUD WAVED GOODBYE

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