Philip Guido on technological transformation
From EBS 25 | Phil Guido, EVP and CCO, AMD · · Avasant
“I think the main message is that we have a unique opportunity to really fundamentally change the world — the way we live, the way we work — for the better, and it's really the collaboration that we're going to have between technology and business leaders to really make this vision a reality.”
On , Philip Guido, Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., spoke about technological transformation during EBS 25 | Phil Guido, EVP and CCO, AMD on Avasant.
About Philip Guido
Philip Guido, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at AMD, has been speaking at several industry events in 2025 about the company’s AI strategy and the broader technology landscape. At the FII9 conference in November 2025, he discussed supply chain resilience and the concentration of advanced chip manufacturing, expressing hope for global partnerships and a resolution to trade tensions. He noted that AMD is building partnerships in different parts of the world to meet AI-driven chip demand and that the company has set aggressive energy efficiency goals, reporting a 38x improvement over its 2024 target and a new goal of 20x improvement by 2030. At Red Hat Summit and EBS events in May and June 2025, Guido emphasized AMD’s broad portfolio spanning CPUs, GPUs, and embedded systems, arguing that AI workloads do not always require GPUs and that CPUs can offer better cost points for many solutions. He described AI as being in an "embryonic stage" and cited statistics that 89% of CEOs rank AI as a critical business imperative. Guido highlighted AMD’s focus on open standards, security built into silicon, and a hybrid AI compute model spanning cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. He also stated that AMD wins over 90% of proof-of-concept demonstrations and that the company’s collaboration with Red Hat can help customers save up to 77% in capital expenditure and 71% in energy consumption when migrating from legacy environments.