Mark Papermaster wears multiple hats within AMD, where he is chief technology officer and executive vice president and in the semiconductor industry and forums such as the IEEE. Papermaster is one of the people credited with AMD’s turnaround over the last decade—a turnaround for which CEO Lisa Su became a widely acclaimed business leader. In this conversation from November 2021, Papermaster talks about what helped; the future of semiconductors; the company’s work in India; and his advice to aspiring engineers