Tech giants are pouring trillions of dollars into AI chips and data centers while the industry quietly faces a fork in the road between open source and proprietary models. AMD (AMD) chair and CEO Lisa Su and former IBM (IBM) CEO Sam Palmisano explain why that choice could shape the next era of computing.
Lisa T. Su is on the board of Cisco Systems, Inc., Global Semiconductor Alliance (former Chairman), Cisco, Inc. and Semiconductor Industry Association and President, CEO & Non-Independent Director at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
In the past Lisa T. Su occupied the position of VP-Semiconductor Research & Development at International Business Machines Corp., Member-Technical Staff at Texas Instruments Incorporated, Vice President-Technology Development at Alliancesphere LLC, Member of Semiconductor Process & Device Center and Senior VP, GM-Networking & Multimedia Group at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Dr. Su received an undergraduate degree, a graduate degree and a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is one of the world's leading computer services companies. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- cognitive solutions and transaction processing software development (43.2%);
- IT services (33%): consulting (management of logistic chains, financial performance, CRM, human resources, etc.), application management, systems integration, cloud computing, hosting, technical support services, etc.;
- sale of IT infrastructure (22.3%): hybrid IT infrastructure solutions, microcomputers, servers, peripheral devices, networks, data storage equipment, etc.;
- financing of computer equipment (1.1%);
- other (0.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (40.1%), Americas (9.7%), Europe-Middle East-Africa (31%) and Asia-Pacific (19.2%).
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