AMD CEO Lisa Su said on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, that gaming remains a core business for the company even as artificial intelligence moves to the center of high-performance computing. The remarks came at AMD Gamers Day, held at Dragon City in Seoul's Yongsan district, according to the Seoul Economic Daily.
What was said
Gaming is a very important core area of computing and a field that constantly demands high performance, Su said, according to the South Korean outlet. Going forward, we will see much more of AI and gaming coming together. The paper notes that its English article is translated from Korean and that quotes may not match the original wording exactly.
Su singled out the Korean market. She reportedly called Korea a special place for gamers and said Ryzen and Radeon users there are among the most demanding in AMD's community over the past decade. She also recalled that the first major use of the Zen architecture and Ryzen processors was gaming, and that the X3D line was developed with players in mind.
FSR 4, Redstone and shorter cycles
Jack Huynh, AMD senior vice president, also attended. He described the goal of the company's machine-learning roadmap as rendering games faster and more beautifully, and making the PC itself smarter. With FSR 4 and FSR Redstone, he said, AMD is applying not only upscaling but also frame generation, frame interpolation and ray regeneration.
Huynh said AI could shorten production timelines. Large titles take years to build, and the goal cited at AMD Gamers Day is to cut cycles that once ran to ten years down to three or four. He added that the technology is not meant to replace artists' creativity, but to give them better tools so they can work faster.
Why it matters
The message lands on a day when the industry is debating how far AI should go in game creation. AMD is framing gaming as a lab for cutting-edge hardware and as a use case that overlaps with AI products. Su said that as AI becomes more important, more combinations of Ryzen and AI features should appear.
Huynh estimated that about 1 billion gaming devices worldwide run on AMD technology, including PCs as well as PlayStation and Xbox. The stated goal is to cover everything from enthusiast products to entry-level options. The Seoul Economic Daily report did not include a new chip, price or launch date.
Original reporting is by Lee Jin-seok for the Seoul Economic Daily.
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