AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Last week, some of the most forward-thinking minds in tech, culture, and politics came together for WIRED’s Big Interview event — a series of live, in-depth conversations with industry leaders. To kick off the event, Lauren sat down with AMD’s CEO Lisa Su. In today’s episode, Mike and Lauren sit down to discuss the key ideas that came up during the interview, as well as the other conversations that caught everyone’s attention during the event.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Lauren, how you doing? Mike, I've been pondering the word tape. Because we're taping a podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | Because we say we're taping a podcast. Sure. I don't think the kids know what that means. |
| 0:12.7 | I mean, they may know what it means in the abstract, but I don't think they've had the visceral |
| 0:16.3 | experience of actually recording something onto tape. On to tape and rewinding the tape. Be kind, rewind, all of that. Yep. No, so I guess we're supposed to say we're recording a podcast now? Recording works, yeah. Yeah. It's like when people say, let me film that. You're not actually filming anything. You're shooting a digital video. So then if you're, if you have a video podcast, |
| 0:38.0 | are you shooting the podcast? What do you say? Do you say taping? I think, I think you see recording |
| 0:42.8 | because it just recording the pod. Yeah. We're recording the pod. It covers all the bases. |
| 0:46.4 | We're capturing it. That's what we're doing. We're sublimating it. All right. Well, |
| 0:52.7 | should we record this pod? |
| 0:55.0 | I would like to, yes. |
| 0:56.6 | Let's do it. |
| 0:58.4 | Honestly, I'm still recovering from last week's big interview event. |
| 1:01.8 | My throat is still feeling a little bit raw, even though it's been like four or five days. |
| 1:06.6 | You sound delightful to me. |
| 1:08.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:08.6 | But that really was an epic event. |
| 1:10.7 | It was. Yeah. You were on stage. I was. I was first up in the morning. Katie, our boss, gave the intro to the conference. And then it was me and Lisa Sue, the CEO of AMD. And not only was it a really interesting conversation, but then I was done for the day. I didn't have to do any more interviews after that. And I just got to listen and absorb. And there were some other really great talks. There were, yes. And we're going to talk through some of them. We're also going to listen to your conversation with Lisa Sue. And then we'll talk about it. And we'll take listeners behind the scenes of the big interview. Let's take them behind the curtain. |
| 1:44.8 | Let's do it. |
| 1:45.9 | This is Wyatt's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. |
| 1:51.2 | Today we're breaking down the key conversations that went down at our big interview event in San |
| 1:55.6 | Francisco last week. |
| 1:57.2 | Since last year, Wired has hosted this space where the most forward-thinking innovators, whether |
| 2:01.3 | they're in tech, politics, science, or culture, have in-depth conversations with us that go |
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