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Re:AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in ... by latchkey on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:44PM (#50373010)
Sharon was acqui-hired after Lamini failed to find product market fit, and she had to fire her co-founder Greg. Greg went to Tensorwave (another AMD play) and eventually quit there as well.

The way I look at it, AMD and others dumped $25m into a very early AI play that never was going to be successful. I don't fault them for trying.

There was no way she could even come close to successor of Lisa though. The grooming thing was a media play at best. Dr. Fei-Fei Li would be a heck of a lot more appropriate than Sharon.

Anush is excellent and turned around the software story. If he goes, the party is over.

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Re:AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in ... by pointyfence on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:49PM (#50419028)
The fact that Sharon was mentioned as a possible successor to Su made me LOL. OP totally clueless. She should never have been given a VP AI Engineering title given how little she's done in her career which says more about how ignorant / desperate AMD was at the time. They've made big strides since then. I'm not expecting her to make it 2 years in Anthropic either.
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