Lisa Su
President and CEO of AMD
The chief executive of AMD, who turned the chipmaker into a leading supplier of processors and accelerators for AI computing.
Biography
Lisa Su is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer and business executive who has been president and CEO of AMD since October 2014. Born in Tainan, Taiwan, she grew up in Queens, New York, and earned three degrees from MIT, including a PhD in electrical engineering in 1994 with a dissertation on silicon-on-insulator MOSFETs.
She worked at Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, and at IBM she played a critical role in the copper-interconnect technology launched in 1998. She joined AMD in 2012 and became CEO two years later. During her tenure AMD's market capitalization grew from roughly $3 billion to more than $1 trillion, and the company overtook Intel in market value. TIME named her CEO of the Year in 2014 and 2024 and one of the Architects of AI for Person of the Year in 2025, and she was the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal in 2021.
Notable contributions
Helped develop copper interconnects at IBM
Played a critical role in the recipe that let copper connections replace aluminum in semiconductor chips, launched in 1998 with chips up to 20% faster.
Led AMD as CEO
Became president and CEO of AMD in 2014; under her tenure the company's market capitalization grew from about $3 billion to more than $1 trillion.
Received the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal
Became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal in 2021.