The CEO of the US chip heavyweight AMD highlighted the company's commitment to China on Tuesday, describing the country as "the world's most dynamic artificial intelligence ecosystem".

AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su made the comments in Shanghai, as the company hosted its inaugural AI DevDay in China, drawing more than 2,000 developers as the chip company deepens its local roots.

The event also marks the 20th anniversary of AMD's Shanghai R&D Center, one of the company's largest research hubs globally.

"China is the world's most dynamic AI ecosystem," Su said in her opening keynote. "AMD has been in China for over 30 years. We think of China as the heart driving our roadmap — including silicon, AI software and platform engineering."

Su noted that AMD now employs more than 4,000 engineers across its R&D centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taipei. The company's EPYC processors power over 700 cloud instances for China's leading cloud service providers, and AMD has partnered with more than 100 software vendors, startups and universities.

"That's why we are partnered with the largest and most influential cloud and enterprise companies in China, and why we are incredibly committed to the ecosystem here," Su said.

She particularly praised China's leadership in open innovation, calling it "a very special strength that moves the AI ecosystem forward as fast as possible".

On AI adoption trends, Su projected explosive growth: from roughly 1 million active AI users globally in 2020 to over 1 billion in 2025, and an estimated 5 billion by 2030 — meaning half the world's population will use AI daily within four years.

"There has never been a more exciting time to be in technology than today," she said, noting rapid acceleration from large language models to agentic AI and inference development.

"Every CEO in every country, whether large, medium or small enterprise, is talking about how to use AI to more effectively impact their business."

Su highlighted that some of the world's best work in agentic AI and local AI is happening in China.

"We see so much innovation going on right now. We really appreciate that partnership," she said, adding that AMD aims to work with China's open-source community and integrate cutting-edge hardware, enabling customers to choose the right compute and model for each application.

The Shanghai DevDay marks the first time AMD has brought this developer-focused event to China, underscoring the strategic importance of the Chinese market in the global AI race.