Lisa Su

Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1969-11-07

• Education

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Three Degrees

• Full Name

  Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su

• Known For

  Developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies, more efficient semiconductor chips, and leading AMD's significant turnaround and market capitalization increase.

• Nationality

  Taiwanese-American

• Occupations

  Business Executive, Computer Scientist, Electrical Engineer

• Place of Birth

  Tainan, Taiwan

• Current Positions

  President, CEO, and Chair of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

• AMD Market Capitalization Growth (under her leadership)

  From approximately $3 billion to over $200 billion (more than 5,000% increase)

Timeline

• Born in Tainan, Taiwan. (Source: Wikidata)

  1969-11-07

• Immigrated to the United States at the age of 3. (Source: Web Search)

  1972

• Joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as Senior Vice President and General Manager of global business units. (Source: Summary)

  2012-01-01

• Named Executive of the Year by EE Times. (Source: Summary)

  2014-01-01

• Appointed President and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). (Source: Summary)

  2014-10-01

• Named Time Magazine CEO of the Year. (Source: Summary)

  2014-01-01

• Named one of Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders. (Source: Summary)

  2017-01-01

• Named 'businessperson of the year' by Fortune magazine. (Source: Web Search)

  2018-01-01

• Made Harvard Business Review's list of the 100 'best-performing CEOs in the world'. (Source: Web Search)

  2019-01-01

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (Source: Web Search)

  2020-01-01

• Became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal. (Source: Summary)

  2021-01-01

• Named Time Magazine CEO of the Year for the second time. (Source: Summary)

  2024-01-01

• Selected as a Fellow of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). (Source: Summary)

  2024-01-01

• AMD expects to receive its first chips from TSMC's Arizona facilities by the end of the year. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-12-31

Lisa Su

Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su (Chinese: 蘇姿丰; pinyin: Sū Zīfēng; born 1969) is an American billionaire business executive, computer scientist, and electrical engineer who is the president, chief executive officer (CEO), and chair of the semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Su was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States as a child. After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips during her time as vice president of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center. Su is also a member of The Business Council. Su was appointed president and CEO of AMD in October 2014, after joining the company in 2012 and holding roles such as senior vice president of AMD's global business units and chief operating officer. She previously served on the board of Cisco Systems and is currently on the board of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, in addition to being a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Recognized with a number of awards and accolades, Su was named Executive of the Year by EE Times in 2014, one of the World's Greatest Leaders in 2017 by Fortune and was the first woman to be named Time Magazine CEO of the year in 2014, and a second time in 2024. She also became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal in 2021. During her tenure as CEO of AMD, the market capitalization of AMD has grown from roughly $3 billion to more than $200 billion. AMD also overtook Intel in market capitalization for the first time. In 2024, Su was selected the Fellow of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Web Search Results

• Lisa Su - Wikipedia

  Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su (Chinese: 蘇姿丰; pinyin: _Sū Zīfēng_; born 1969) is an American billionaire business executive, computer scientist, and electrical engineer who is the president, chief executive officer (CEO), and chair of the semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). [...] Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su was born in November[\[16\]]( of 1969[\[7\]]( in Tainan, Taiwan. She was born in a Taiwanese Hokkien speaking family.[\[17\]]( She immigrated to the United States[\[2\]]( at the age of 3 with her parents Su Chun-hwai (蘇春槐) and Sandy Lo (羅淑雅).[\[16\]]( Both she and her brother were encouraged to study math and science as children.[\[18\]]( When she was seven, her father, a retired statistician, began quizzing her on multiplication tables. Her mother, an accountant who later [...] Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Download QR code Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American electrical engineer and CEO of AMD (born 1969) In this Taiwanese name, the surname is _Su "Su (surname)")_.

• Lisa Su : Awards | Carnegie Corporation of New York

  Su is a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, and her honors include the NYSCI Distinguished Leadership Award. She was named “businessperson of the year” by Fortune magazine in 2018, and the next year made Harvard Business Review’s list of the 100 “best-performing CEOs in the world.” In 2020, Su was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [...] Lisa Su was born in the coastal city of Tainan, Taiwan, and came to the United States with her parents and brother when she was two years old. She developed an interest in technology early on, taking electronics apart as a child. Su’s mother, an accountant turned entrepreneur, and father, a statistician, gave her three career options: doctor, concert pianist, or engineer. The latter seemed like the logical choice. After graduating from New York City’s prestigious Bronx High School of Science, a [...] In 2012, she joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a Silicon Valley semiconductor company, as senior vice president and general manager for its global business units, and was later promoted to chief operating officer. In 2014, she was named AMD president and CEO, the company’s first female leader, a rarity in America’s largest companies (only 5 percent of CEOs of S&P 500 companies are women). When Su took over as president and CEO, AMD was struggling financially. She led its turnaround by

• Lisa Su | The Franklin Institute

  Lisa Su joined AMD in 2012 as a senior vice president and general manager of global business units after having served in senior management roles in other technology companies for more than 15 years. Yet despite her extensive business and engineering experience, including being AMD chief operating officer, she faced a challenging moment on becoming CEO. With the company’s revenue dropping and the workforce contracting, observers both inside and outside of the semiconductor industry deemed AMD [...] Su’s business accomplishments in turning around AMD and her achievements as an engineer and researcher have brought her numerous honors and accolades. She is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal. She was named one of Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2017, named one of Barron’s World’s Best [...] Not many electrical engineers rise to become the CEO of a multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 company. Even fewer have led such a remarkable turnaround. Yet Lisa Su has done both, turning the venerable American semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) from a stock price of $3 a share into a major player and competitor at the frontiers of microelectronics and high-performance computing. Since becoming CEO in 2014, AMD’s market cap has increased by more than 5,000 percent.

• AMD CEO Sees Chips From TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More

  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su said that the chips her company gets from supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. cost more when they’re produced in TSMC’s Arizona facilities. Compared with similar parts from factories in Taiwan, the US chips will be “more than 5% but less than 20%” in terms of higher costs, she said at an AI event in Washington Wednesday. AMD expects its first chips from TSMC’s Arizona facilities by the end of the year, Su said. []( [...] Bloomberg Law Bloomberg Tax Bloomberg Government BloombergNEF ### Media Bloomberg Markets Bloomberg Technology Bloomberg Pursuits Bloomberg Politics Bloomberg Opinion Bloomberg Businessweek Bloomberg Live Conferences Bloomberg Radio Bloomberg Television News Bureaus ### Media Services Bloomberg Media Distribution Advertising ### Bloomberg [...] Bloomberg Law Bloomberg Tax Bloomberg Government BloombergNEF ### Media Bloomberg Markets Bloomberg Technology Bloomberg Pursuits Bloomberg Politics Bloomberg Opinion Bloomberg Businessweek Bloomberg Live Conferences Bloomberg Radio Bloomberg Television News Bureaus ### Media Services Bloomberg Media Distribution Advertising ### Company

• Lisa Su - Forbes

  ### It’s Day One For The Combined AMD And Xilinx And CEO Lisa Su Is Energized ### Analyst Quick Take: Cisco Appoints Dr. Lisa Su To Board Of Directors ### AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su Confirms Next-Generation RDNA GPUs Are Coming This Year ### CES 2019: AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su Reveals Sizzling Developments In Computing Power ### AMD's CEO Lisa Su More Bullish Than Ever On Epyc In The Datacenter ### AMD CEO Lisa Su And The Art Of A Turnaround ### also on forbes [...] ### How Generative AI Helped Make AMD’s Lisa Su A Billionaire ### Should MIT PhDs Work For Harvard MBAs: 3 Lessons From Su Of AMD ### While AMD Lags NVIDIA In Generative AI, CEO Lisa Su Is Bullish ### Lisa Su Saved AMD. Now She Wants Nvidia’s AI Crown ### AMD’s Lisa Su Goes Extra Time With Announcements During CES 2023 Keynote ### AMD Announces Ryzen 7000 Price, Specs, Availability And Massive Performance Increases [...] # Lisa Su ### Real Time Net Worth profile image for Lisa Su ### Forbes Lists Mark Stevens Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jerry Yang Cisco Systems Alberto Palatchi ### More on Forbes ### Time Recognizes Lisa Su For Leadership Record ### The Billionaires Getting Rich From AI 2024 ### Generative AI Elevates Lisa Su To Billionaire Status At AMD ### How AMD Made Lisa Su A Billionaire. Plus: Charge What You’re Worth

• Award

  IEEE Fellow

• Image

  

• Gender

  female

• Educated At

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  chief executive officer

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  11/7/1969

• Place Of Birth

  Tainan County

Lisa Su (Chinese: 蘇姿丰; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: So͘ Chu-hong; born 7 November 1969) is a Taiwanese-American business executive and electrical engineer, who is the president, chief executive officer and chair of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Early in her career, Su worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips during her time as vice president of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center. Su was appointed president and CEO of AMD in October 2014, after joining the company in 2012 and holding roles such as senior vice president of AMD's global business units and chief operating officer. She currently serves on the boards of Cisco Systems, Global Semiconductor Alliance and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Recognized with a number of awards and accolades, she was named Executive of the Year by EE Times in 2014 and one of the World's Greatest Leaders in 2017 by Fortune. She became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal in 2021.