The Cousins Running Rival Tech Empires

AMD's Lisa Su and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang are surprisingly related. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.

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Articles:
AI server stat from TrendForce: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-ai-server-demand-surge-120000260.html?guccounter=1
Stratechery interview with Lisa Su: https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-amd-ceo-lisa-su-about-solving-hard-problems/

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