Lisa Su

Lisa Su

American business executive (born 1969)

Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su (born November 7, 1969) is a Taiwanese and American business executive, computer scientist, and electrical engineer who has been the president and CEO of the American semiconductor company AMD since 2014.2

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Born Nov 7, 1969.1

About

Su was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States with her family as a young 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 was 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 $1 trillion. AMD also overtook Intel in market capitalization for the first time. In 2024, Su was selected the Fellow of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). She was named the tenth most powerful woman in the world for 2025 by Forbes. She was named as one of the "Architects of AI" for Time's Person of the Year in 2025.

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Companies

  • AMDChair Feb 17, 2022 to now23
  • AMDBoard member Oct 8, 2014 to now24
  • AMDChief executive officer Oct 8, 2014 to now24
  • CiscoBoard member Jan 2020 to Dec 202325
  • AMDPresident Nov 4, 2014 to Feb 16, 202226
  • Analog DevicesBoard member Jun 13, 2012 to Mar 12, 202027
  • AMDSVP, GM Global Business Units Feb 16, 2012 to Feb 11, 201528
  • AMDChief operating officer Aug 12, 2014 to Dec 29, 201429

Holdings

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Shares held

  • AMD AMD3,166,683 shares30$1.8B at $565.58Sep 14, 2026
  • Analog Devices ADI15,030 shares31$6.1M at $404.96Mar 11, 2020

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Recent filings

  • Sep 10, 2026Gift 35,000 shares of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 200 shares at $513.72 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 100 shares at $512.59 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 500 shares at $510.94 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 3,500 shares at $509.74 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 2,106 shares at $508.90 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 3,288 shares at $507.75 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 4,200 shares at $506.60 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 4,400 shares at $505.57 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 4,600 shares at $504.76 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 2,106 shares at $503.72 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 100 shares at $515.55 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 400 shares at $514.05 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 200 shares at $512.47 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 300 shares at $511.39 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 2,100 shares at $510.74 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 8,343 shares at $509.71 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 7,962 shares at $508.78 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 8,070 shares at $507.71 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 10,524 shares at $506.62 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 12,982 shares at $505.63 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 13,123 shares at $504.75 of AMD30
  • Sep 10, 2026Sold 5,896 shares at $503.74 of AMD30
  • Aug 18, 2026Sold 500 shares at $490.36 of AMD32
  • Aug 18, 2026Sold 504 shares at $489.03 of AMD32

Early life and education

  • 1994Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctor of Philosophy3 5
  • Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology master's degree3 4
  • Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology bachelor's degree3 4

Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su was born in November 1969 in Tainan, Taiwan. She was born in a Taiwanese Hokkien speaking family. She immigrated to the United States at the age of 3 with her parents Su Chun-hwai (蘇春槐) and Sandy Lo (羅淑雅). She grew up in the Queens borough of New York City. Her father worked as a statistician for the city government. Both she and her brother were encouraged to study math and science as children. When she was seven, her father began quizzing her on multiplication tables. Her mother, an accountant who later became an entrepreneur, introduced her to business concepts.

Su sought to become an engineer at a young age. She recalled, "I just had a great curiosity about how things worked". When she was 10, she began taking apart and then fixing her brother's remote control cars, and she owned her first computer in junior high school, an Apple II. She attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York City, graduating in 1986.

Su began attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the fall of 1986, intending to major in either electrical engineering or computer science. She settled on electrical engineering, recollecting that it seemed like the most difficult major. During her freshman year she worked as an undergraduate research assistant "manufacturing test silicon wafers for graduate students" through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). The project, and her summer jobs at Analog Devices, fueled her interest in semiconductors. She remained focused on the topic for the remainder of her education, spending much of her time in labs designing and adjusting products.

After earning her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Su obtained her master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1991. From 1990 to 1994, she studied for her PhD in electrical engineering under doctoral advisors Dimitri A. Antoniadis and James E. Chung. MIT Technology Review reports that as a doctoral candidate, Su was "one of the first researchers to look into silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, a then unproven technique for increasing transistors' efficiency by building them atop layers of an insulating material". She graduated with her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1994. Her dissertation was titled, "Extreme-submicrometer silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFETs".

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Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, chief executive officer, electrical engineer.11

Su has been on the boards of Analog Devices, Cisco Systems, Inc., the Global Semiconductor Alliance, and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association. As of 2016, she has published over forty technical articles and coauthored a book chapter discussing next-generation consumer electronics.

1994–1999: Texas Instruments and IBM R&D

In 1994, Su became a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments, working in the company's Semiconductor Process and Device Center (SPDC) until February 1995. That month, IBM hired Su as a research staff member specializing in device physics, and she was appointed vice president of IBM's semiconductor research and development center.

During her time at IBM, Su played a "critical role" in developing the "recipe" to make copper connections work with semiconductor chips instead of aluminum, "solving the problem of preventing copper impurities from contaminating the devices during production". The copper technology was launched in 1998, resulting in new industry standards and chips that were up to 20% faster than the conventional versions.

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2000–2007: IBM Emerging Products division

In 2000, Su was given a year-long assignment as the technical assistant for Lou Gerstner, IBM's CEO. She subsequently took on the role of director of emerging projects, stating that "I was basically director of myself – there was no one else in the group". As head and founder of IBM's Emerging Products division, Su ran an internal startup and hired ten employees to focus on biochips and "low-power and broadband semiconductors". Their first product was a microprocessor that improved battery life in phones and other handheld devices. MIT Technology Review named her a "Top Innovator Under 35" in 2001, due in part to her work with Emerging Products.

Through her division, Su represented IBM in a collaboration to create next-generation chips with Sony and Toshiba. Ken Kutaragi charged the collaboration with "improving the performance of game machine processors by a factor of 1,000", and Su's team eventually came up with the idea for a nine-processor chip, which later became the Cell microprocessor used to power devices such as the PlayStation 3. She continued as vice president of the semiconductor research and development center at IBM, holding the role until May 2007.

2007–2011: Freescale Semiconductor

Su joined Freescale Semiconductor in June 2007 as chief technology officer (CTO), heading the company's research and development until August 2009. From September 2008 until December 2011, she was senior vice president and general manager of Freescale's networking and multimedia group, and was responsible for global strategy, marketing, and engineering for the company's embedded communications and applications processor business. As head of the company's networking-chip business, EE Times credited her with helping Freescale get "its house in order", with the company filing for an initial public offering in 2011.

2012–2014: AMD appointments

Su became senior vice president and general manager at AMD in January 2012, overseeing the company's global business units and the "end-to-end business execution" of AMD's products. Over the next two years she "played a prominent role" in pushing the company to diversify beyond the PC market, including working with Microsoft and Sony to place AMD chips in Xbox One and PlayStation 4 game consoles.

On 8 October 2014, AMD announced Su's appointment to president and CEO, replacing Rory Read. Su stated that her plan for the company involved focusing on making the "right technology investments", streamlining the product line, and continuing to diversify, also asserting that she wanted to "simplify" the company and accelerate the development of new technology. A number of analysts praised the appointment due to Su's credentials, noting AMD was seeking growth in product areas where Su had "extensive experience".

2015–2016: AMD diversification

When Su joined AMD in 2012, about 10 percent of sales came from non-PC products. By February 2015, roughly 40 percent of AMD's sales came from non-PC markets, such as video game consoles and embedded devices. In May 2015, Su and other AMD executives presented a long-term strategy for the company to focus on developing high-performance computing and graphics technologies for three growth areas: gaming, datacenter, and "immersive platforms" markets.

In January 2016, Su announced that AMD was working on new FinFET-based chips to create a new line of microprocessors, products, accelerated processing units (APUs), graphics chips, and semi-custom chip designs for unreleased video game consoles. AMD reported revenue growth in 2016, attributed in part to its graphics and console chip business. Fortune attributed the "impressive" statistic to Su.

2017–present: Ryzen

After the initial launch of Zen chips in quarter two 2017, AMD's percentage of the CPU market share surged to nearly 11%. Ryzen CPUs have received favorable reviews from a variety of news outlets, specifically highlighting their high thread counts at prices drastically lower than those of Intel's, especially in the high-performance computing market with AMD's Ryzen Threadripper line of workstation processors. Su is the first woman ever to top the Associated Press’s annual survey of CEO compensation, with her 2019 pay package being valued at $58.5 million.

In February 2022, Su became chair of AMD after completing a reported $49 billion acquisition of FPGA and programmable systems on chip maker Xilinx.

In 2023, Su's total compensation from AMD was $30.3 million, representing a CEO-to-median worker pay ratio of 238-to-1.

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Personal life

  • BornNov 7, 1969, Tainan County12
  • CitizenshipUnited States13
  • ResidenceAustin, Texas14

Su and her husband, Daniel Lin (Chinese: 丹尼爾‧林), are based in Austin, Texas. Su’s mother and Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang are first cousins. Su's maternal grandfather is the eldest brother of Huang's mother.

Su's father is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party and serves as its Eastern United States chapter's head and the senior advisor to the President of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te, since June 2026.

After she became CEO of AMD, Su got into the habit of boxing regularly with a trainer.

As of 2026, Su has an estimated net worth of more than $3.4 billion.

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Awards

  • 2026National Medal of Science15 20
  • 2025Time 10015 19
  • 2021IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal15 18
  • 2021Women in Technology Hall of Fame15 17
  • 2009IEEE Fellow15 16

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