I thought so too until I read a Stratechery interview that painted a pretty bad portrait of her time at Sony [0].

I tend to think that AMD looks well run when compared with Intel [1], but when you consider Nvidia as the relevant counterfactual [2], things don't look so good.

I wrote about this here [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40697341

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446766

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344815

[3] https://setharielgreen.com/blog/amd-also-seems-to-be-flounde...