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As chair and chief executive officer at AMD, Dr. Lisa Su has led the company’s transformation into the industry’s high-performance and adaptive computing leader, helping solve the world's most important challenges by delivering the next-generation of computing and AI solutions. 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 is TIME's CEO of the Year, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, received the 2024 Bower Award for Business Leadership, has been honored in multiple "most powerful women" lists for several years, and received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Committee for Economic Development (CED). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Science and the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Su is a recipient of the Global Semiconductor Association’s Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award and the Grace Hopper Technical Leadership Abie Award. The IEEE recognized her with its highest semiconductor honor, the Robert N. Noyce Medal, and in 2021, Dr. Su was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (“PCAST”). She continues to serve on PCAST, is vice chair of the board of directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association and is on the Department of Homeland Security’s Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board.
Recent Awards and Accolades
- 2024 TIME CEO of the Year
- 2024 Financial Times Women of the Year
- 2024, 2023 Forbes World's Most Powerful Women
- 2024 TIME100 AI
- 2024 Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Laureate
- 2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021 Barron's World's Best CEOs
- 2024 CRN 25 Most Influential Executives
- 2024 Bower Award for Business Leadership
- 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 International Peace Honors Honoree
- 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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Digital photos of Lisa Su
Lisa in the Media
Lisa Su with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang – Bloomberg
Lisa Su, TIME CEO of the Year – TIME
Lisa Su, CEO of the Year from Chief Executive – Chief Executive
AMD CEO: “Very Excited about the Traction We're Seeing” – CNBC
AMD CEO: Earnings, AI, Roadmap – Bloomberg
Under Lisa Su, AMD Is Still Scrappy but Technically Savvy – Barron's
An Interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su About Solving Hard Problems – Stratechery
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: 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
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
AMD Advancing AI 2024 – YouTube
Lisa Su at Computex – YouTube
AMD Advancing AI 2023 – 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