Executive Team
Dr. Lisa Su
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
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As chair and chief executive officer, Dr. Lisa T. Su led the transformation of AMD into the high-performance and adaptive computing leader, and one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies in the world. Prior to serving as chair and CEO, she was the chief operating officer responsible for integrating AMD’s business units, sales, global operations and infrastructure enablement teams into a single market-facing organization responsible for all aspects of product strategy and execution. Dr. Su joined AMD in January 2012 as senior vice president and general manager, global business units and was responsible for driving end-to-end business execution of AMD products and solutions.
Prior to joining AMD, Dr. Su served as senior vice president and general manager, Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (a semiconductor manufacturing company) and was responsible for global strategy, marketing and engineering for the company’s embedded communications and applications processor business. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as chief technology officer, where she led the company’s technology roadmap and research and development efforts.
Dr. Su spent the previous 13 years at IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including vice president of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center responsible for the strategic direction of IBM’s silicon technologies, joint development alliances and semiconductor R&D operations. Prior to IBM, she was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments Inc. in the Semiconductor Process and Device Center from 1994 to 1995.
Dr. Su has bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has published more than 40 technical articles and was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers in 2009. In 2018, Dr. Su was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and received the Global Semiconductor Association’s Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. In 2020, Fortune named Dr. Su #2 on its “Business Person of the Year” list, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science, and received the Grace Hopper Technical Leadership Abie Award. In 2021, she was recognized by the IEEE with its highest semiconductor honor, the Robert N. Noyce Medal, and was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Su also serves on the board of directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Recent Awards and Accolades
- 2023 Forbes The World's Most Powerful Women
- 2023 Forbes The Future of Work Top 50
- 2023 The MarketWatch 50
- 2023 Committee for Economic Development (CED) Distinguished Leadership Award
- 2023 World Innovation, Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) Eminent Person Award
- 2023 Asian Hall of Fame Inductee
- 2023, 2022, 2021, & 2020 Fortune Most Powerful Women
- 2023 Honorary Doctorates from Asia University, National Tsing Hua University and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- 2023 JEDEC Distinguished Executive Leadership Award, for Commitment to Open Standards Development
- 2023 Top 25 Most Influential Executives in CRN’s Top 100 Executives List
- 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50
- 2022 & 2021 Barron's World's Best CEOs
- 2022 International Peace Honors Honoree
- 2021 Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women
- 2021 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal
- 2021 Member of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
- 2021 Women in Technology Hall of Fame
- 2021 Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Woman of Innovation Award
- 2020 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) Robert N. Noyce Award
- 2020 Grace Hopper Technical Leadership Abie Award
- 2020 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Lisa in the Media
AMD CEO says “AI is the Most Important Technology in 50 Years” – CNBC
“This is an Opportunity to Build a Major Growth Driver,” says AMD CEO on AI – Bloomberg
AMD CEO says “Compute Demand Driving AI Market Opportunity” – Bloomberg
AMD CEO: There Will be Multiple Winners in the AI Chip Battle – Yahoo! Finance
AMD CEO: We Have an Incredibly Competitive AI Product – CNBC
AMD CEO sees a Golden Opportunity for AMD AI Chips – FORTUNE
AMD CEO Lisa Su: We will start production on next gen A.I. chip by the end of the year – CNBC
AMD CEO on new AI superchip: This is 'incredibly powerful' technology – Yahoo
How AMD CEO Lisa Su turned AMD into a semiconductor powerhouse – Forbes
The Computer Chip Wars: How AMD Ended Intel's Market Dominance – Wall Street Journal
Events
Advancing AI Event – YouTube
Lisa Su on Behind the Tech with Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott
Lisa Su at Code Conference 2023
Data Center and AI Technology Premiere – YouTube
ISSCC Keynote – YouTube
Lisa Su at CES 2023 – YouTube
Lisa Su at AMD 2022 together we advance_data centers Event – YouTube
Lisa Su at AMD 2022 together we advance_gaming Event – YouTube
Lisa Su at AMD 2022 together we advance_PCs Event – YouTube