There are advantages in mathematics and computer fields! Chinese ethnic groups show their talents in the AI ​​battlefield

[Global Times Special Correspondent in the United States Zhang Sisi] Recently, as NVIDIA has become the hottest artificial intelligence (AI) chip company in the world, the American Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and its leadership have been regarded as its competitors. The author has also come into people’s sight. Su Zifeng, AMD's CEO, once saved the company, and now she aims to compete with Nvidia for leadership in artificial intelligence. Forbes website described the leadership abilities of the 53-year-old American chip company executive in an article. What’s more coincidental is that Su Zifeng and Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang are both from Taiwan, China, so some people jokingly call the competition between the two companies a “showdown between two Chinese chip CEOs.” In addition to the aforementioned two, many Chinese-Americans have recently emerged in the field of artificial intelligence in America.

She made AMD’s stock price rise nearly 30 times in 10 years

Born to a mathematician father and a former accountant mother, Su Zifeng was born in Taiwan, China in 1969. When she was 3 years old, Su Zifeng immigrated to the United States with her family. She has attended various prestigious schools since she was a child, and is a top academic. She skipped a grade and entered a two-year junior high school because of her excellent grades. He attended Bronx High School of Science, one of the famous old high schools in New York. It is worth mentioning that Su Zifeng, who has excellent grades in science and engineering, also has extremely high musical attainments. But between music and science, Su Zifeng finally chose science. Su Zifeng enrolled in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and subsequently obtained bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

Dr. Su Zifeng joined Texas Instruments after graduation. In 2012, Su Zifeng officially joined AMD. In just two years, she successfully became president and CEO of AMD. Under her leadership, AMD has its own moment of glory. AMD regained market favor with the release of its new architecture Ryzen series processors in 2017. In September 2021, Su Zifeng was selected by Biden as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Forbes news website stated that Su Zifeng successfully led a great transformation in the history of Silicon Valley, pushing the stock price of this "dying" semiconductor manufacturer to rise nearly 30 times in less than 10 years. Now, she faces another difficult challenge: Can AMD produce a chip powerful enough to break Nvidia's near-monopoly in the processor field? Su Zifeng said in an interview with the media: "If you look forward to the next five years, you will see artificial intelligence in every AMD product, and it will become the biggest growth driver."

Being a waiter will help you develop your ability to get along with others

Huang Renxun and Su Zifeng are both high-profile Chinese people in the U.S. chip field, and they have many things in common. First, during college, their majors were all related to electronic engineering. In the eyes of Americans, the Chinese have always shown strong advantages in majors such as electrical engineering, mathematics, and computer science. According to statistics from the American data company Statista, in the 2020-2021 school year, 22.2% of Chinese students are enrolled in mathematics and computer science courses, making it the most popular field for Chinese students studying in the United States.

Secondly, both Jen-Hsun Huang and Zifeng Su immigrated to the United States when they were very young, while Tao Zhexuan, another Chinese mathematician who was included in Biden’s PCAST, was born in Australia and went to the United States to study when he was 17 years old. Not big either. They have no language barrier and can easily understand the course content and integrate into local life.

Becoming a business leader in an emerging field depends not only on knowledge, but good interpersonal relationships are also an important advantage. According to teacher Su Zifeng's recollection, Su Zifeng got along very well with others. Whenever there were differences between her classmates, she was always able to calm down the arguments. Huang Renxun also said in an interview with the New York Times many years ago that he is not a naturally talkative person. Coming out of his closed self came from his experience as a restaurant waiter, because he needed to respond in various uncertain environments. customer needs.

Chinese students studying abroad frequently make technological breakthroughs

In addition to the above two chip company CEOs, the popular American artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has recently appointed a Chinese product manager. His name certified on LinkedIn’s official website is Peter Deng. In addition, in May this year, the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology established a working group on generative artificial intelligence, with Su Zifeng and Tao Zhexuan both on the list.

The book "Chip Storm" written by Dai Jin and Liu Zhixiang once mentioned that more than half of the senior chip R&D personnel in Silicon Valley in the United States are technical immigrants from China and India. Chinese Americans like Jen-Hsun Huang and Zifeng Su were able to stay in the United States and develop into CEOs of leading U.S. semiconductor companies. On the one hand, they both caught up with the golden period of rapid development of the U.S. chip industry in the 1990s; Secondly, a number of American universities, represented by Stanford University, have simultaneously begun to develop high-quality education, provide research opportunities for students from various countries, and then develop these people into American talent resources through skilled immigration policies.

Currently, there are still not many Chinese from mainland China among the executives of American technology companies. In many American institutions of higher learning, such as MIT and Harvard University, you can often hear news about major breakthroughs made by Chinese students in the field of technology. According to the official website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in early May this year, Zhu Jiadi, a graduate student in its Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his team reported that they had achieved a major breakthrough in the field of chip technology. It is reported that Zhu Jiadi studied at Peking University as an undergraduate.

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