Lisa Su: UALink and UEC prove AI competitors can unite around open standards
Lisa Su · How to Build a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD · Oct 17, 2024 · at 13:30
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, discusses open industry ecosystems and how competing hardware companies collaborate on networking and interconnect standards for AI clusters.
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“The Ultra Accelerator Link and Ultra Ethernet Consortium are great examples where competitors and peers can come together and say, you know what, we're gonna adopt open standards and we're each gonna innovate on top of that, and you know, those are, you know, two great examples, and it includes you know, many many companies that that do compete but also, you know, can cooperate, and if you know, think about that, that's exactly what an open ecosystem is supposed to be.”
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