Tech Accelerates Through the Pandemic, But Wary of Speed Traps
The most important thing in tech today is …
the insights unfolding on stage at the Code Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.?The event kicked off yesterday with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, among others.
Conferences can feel like a grab bag —?so many insights coming from so many different directions —?but the filter I’m putting on this one is acceleration and caution.?The pandemic has boosted global society’s reliance on digital technology for almost everything, just as it has also exposed supply chain bottlenecks, social media pitfalls, cryptocurrency risks and geopolitical fault lines.
Kara Swisher was kind enough to have me join her on the Code stage yesterday to interview Lisa Su, whom I’ve known since before she became AMD CEO. Some of the memorable nuggets from that conversation: The tech demand surge has been durable because of a shift in how we work, and supply won’t catch up until next year. Heterogeneous computing is the future. And a fragmented global economy won’t work —?the U.S., China and other power have to get to a better framework for how to work together.
Coming up today on CNBC’s TechCheck, 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT …
AMD CEO Lisa Su, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon
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