
Visit includes attending AMD Gamer Day 2026 and discussions with AI and government officials.
AMD CEO Lisa Su will visit South Korea this week to meet semiconductor industry executives and government officials, attend AMD Gamer Day 2026, and discuss potential AI partnerships.
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Lisa Su previously visited South Korea in March to discuss AI cooperation with Samsung and Naver.
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Yonhap) -- Lisa Su, chief executive officer (CEO) of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), will visit South Korea this week to meet semiconductor industry executives and government officials, the company said Monday.
The visit comes about seven months after Su's previous trip to South Korea in March.
Su, along with Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Computing and Graphics Group, is scheduled to attend AMD Gamer Day 2026 in central Seoul on Wednesday. A media Q&A session is also scheduled for the same day, according to AMD.
Su is expected to meet executives from South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) companies and government officials to discuss potential business partnerships.
During her visit in March, Su met Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Choi Soo-yeon, CEO of South Korea's largest online portal operator, Naver Corp., to discuss cooperation in AI.
Samsung Electronics has supplied HBM3E chips to AMD for its latest AI solutions since 2025. The two companies have maintained a close business relationship.
AMD develops and manufactures central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), and is one of the major players in the global AI semiconductor market alongside Nvidia Corp.
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