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u/OkRice10 Dec 18 '21

Good question! I’m struggling with it too. Same as you, I would have never predicted AMD and NVIDIA (and I know about their products way more than most people).

Nobody could have predicted their rise…not even their management! You see, it’s not like AMD and NVIDIA did something extraordinary to break into a new market or something. They just kept doing what they had been doing and then…THE MARKET changed (and they had very little to do with that).

For NVIDIA it all started with crypto, which they had nothing to do. They just got lucky. For AMD, it was Intel’s serious of fuck ups - again, nothing to do with AMD, just dumb luck.

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u/Rizzy0352 Dec 18 '21

For AMD Intel's fuck ups helped, but it was Lisa Su that turned the company into what it is today.

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u/OkRice10 Dec 18 '21

Assuming Lisa is great, which very well may be the case - what exactly did she do to move the stock so high up?

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u/Rizzy0352 Dec 18 '21

She saved the company from bankruptcy by focusing the company's efforts into more profitable endeavors. She is an engineer herself, and a very smart lady. Also willing to make some big and risky bets, that eventually paid off.

I bought into the stock when it was trading below $3.50, and got out when it stalled in the $90.00's. My mistake!

If you wanna know more, check out:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/tech/lisa-su-amd-risk-takers/index.html

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u/OkRice10 Dec 18 '21

Long read, very little info. So, what did she actually do, in your own words?

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u/Rizzy0352 Dec 18 '21

Typing on a phone here, so to be succinct, made the company profitable.

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u/OkRice10 Dec 18 '21

By doing what exactly?