From "can you speak English?" to $1T: AMD's market cap rose 100x since 2018
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-30
At the 2018 F1 Chinese Grand Prix starting grid, a Sky Sports reporter asked AMD CEO Lisa Su if she could "speak English" — a now-famous awkward moment. Since then, AMD's market cap has surged 100x from $10 billion to $1 trillion, propelled by the AI compute boom. The poster calls it an aspirational mix of ambition and humility.
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