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Lisa Su
Chair and CEO, AMD.

EditorialAn editorial profile written by Ceolumen from public sources. Lisa Su is not a Ceolumen member and has not endorsed Ceolumen. Disclosures

Profile

Lisa Su has led AMD, the American semiconductor company, since October 2014, when she was appointed its president and chief executive. AMD now lists her as chair and chief executive officer. She joined the company in 2012 and ran its global business units, then served as chief operating officer, before taking the top job.

Su was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1969 and moved to the United States with her family as a young child. She earned three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then worked in engineering and management at Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor. At IBM she was vice president of the company’s semiconductor research and development center, where her work included silicon-on-insulator manufacturing.

She is a fellow of the IEEE and serves on the board of the Semiconductor Industry Association. In 2021 she became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal.

Sources

  1. Lisa Su Wikipedia
  2. Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and Chief Executive Officer AMD

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Lisa Su smiling as she speaks on stage at South by Southwest in 2024. Photograph by Fuzheado, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Cropped from the original by Ceolumen.

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