Lisa Su

Chair and CEO, AMD

Lisa Su leads AMD, a supplier of processors and AI accelerators. Trained in electrical engineering at MIT, she worked at Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale before joining AMD in 2012. She became CEO in 2014 and board chair in 2022. Her work connects semiconductor engineering, product strategy and the computing infrastructure used to train and run AI systems.

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At a glance

Lisa Su leads AMD, a supplier of processors and AI accelerators. Trained in electrical engineering at MIT, she worked at Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale before joining AMD in 2012. She became CEO in 2014 and board chair in 2022. Her work connects semiconductor engineering, product strategy and the computing infrastructure used to train and run AI systems.

Current work
Chair and CEO, AMD
Known for
Semiconductor engineering; processors; AI accelerators
Education
Electrical engineering, MIT
Previously
IBM; Freescale Semiconductor

Sources checked . Selected career background and milestones.

Career, in context.

Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.

  1. Expands AMD’s AI partnership with Meta

    AMD and Meta announce a multi-year agreement covering up to six gigawatts of Instinct GPUs. Su describes the collaboration as a long-term alignment of hardware and software roadmaps.

    Source: AMD ↗
  2. Announces a strategic partnership with OpenAI

    OpenAI and AMD announce plans for six gigawatts of AMD GPU deployments. The announcement describes a phased infrastructure agreement, rather than six gigawatts already installed.

    Source: OpenAI ↗
  3. Becomes AMD board chair

    Su adds the board chair role to her executive responsibilities. AMD’s official director biography records the appointment in February 2022.

    Source: AMD ↗
  4. Becomes AMD president and CEO

    After serving as chief operating officer, Su takes responsibility for AMD as president and CEO and joins its board of directors.

    Source: AMD ↗
  5. Appointed chief operating officer

    The operating role covers AMD’s business units, sales and global operations. Su holds it before her appointment as chief executive later that year.

    Source: AMD ↗
  6. Joins AMD

    Su enters AMD as senior vice president and general manager of Global Business Units, overseeing execution across the company’s products and solutions.

    Source: AMD ↗
  7. Joins Freescale as chief technology officer

    Following engineering and business leadership work at IBM, Su joins Freescale to lead its technology roadmap and research and development work.

    Source: AMD ↗

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