AMD's Lisa Su says AI isn't replacing people, but is changing who they hire

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CEO Lisa Su said Tuesday that artificial intelligence has not slowed the pace of hiring at her company, but the candidates who have truly embraced the technology have become a priority.

“I would say that we’re actually not hiring fewer people,” Su told CNBC’s Jon Fortt on Tuesday from the CES conference in Las Vegas. “Frankly, we’re growing very significantly as a company, so we actually are hiring lots of people, but we’re hiring different people. We’re hiring people who are AI forward.”

AMD develops the graphics processing unit (GPU) chips that train models and run large AI workloads, placing the company firmly at the center of the AI boom. It competes directly Nvidia