Well, while they desperately try to keep shareholders happy instead of developers, Nvidia racks in trillions in market cap. But I agree in the sense that thinking ahead further than the next quarter is not a great strength of most publicly traded companies.

Just because something was said in public to some interviewer doesn't mean they are thinking exactly the same internally.

Supporting... I remember this Freakonomics interview with Ballmer about his statements about the iPhone: "There’s two things: What would I have said differently and what would I have thought differently? They’re actually quite different."

From: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/hoopers-hoopers-hoopers/

Well, technically yes. To see why that's the case you'd actually have to work with their products.

> that's just regular media training and it's their job is to keep the stock market happy.

The investors already know AMD's SW is bad. Now they know not to trust AMD's CEO.