Lisa Su, an electrical engineer is the president, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and chairperson of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). She became the CEO and President of AMD in October 2014 and in 2022, she became the Chair of the company.
In 2021, Lisa became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal. She is also the first woman ever to top The Associated Press’ annual survey of CEO compensation. In 2019 her pay package was valued at $58.5 million. Before joining AMD, Lisa spent 15+ years in the semiconductor industry in various engineering and general management roles at Freescale and IBM.
Besides being a president, CEO, and Chair, she serves on the boards of Cisco Systems, Global Semiconductor Alliance, and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Su began her career in 1994 as a member of the technical staff at Texas instruments. Later in 1995, she became the Vice-President of IBM's semiconductor research and development center. At IBM, she played an important role in developing the "recipe" to make copper connections work with semiconductor chips instead of aluminum. She gradually became the director of emerging projects at the company. Subsequently, Liza and her team made a microprocessor that improved battery life in phones and other handheld devices., At IBM she worked for over 12 years.
In 2001, she was named, "Top Innovator Under 35" by MIT Technology Review
In 2007, she joined Freescale Semiconductor and worked there as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) heading the company's research and development until 2009. From 2008 till 2011, she served as senior vice president(VP) and general manager of Freescale's networking and multimedia group. As the VP and General Manager was responsible for global strategy, marketing, and engineering for the company's embedded communications and applications processor business.
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In January 2012, Su joined AMD as senior vice president and general manager of the company. From 2012 to 2014, for almost two years Su worked in pushing the company to diversify beyond the PC market, including working with Microsoft and Sony to place AMD chips in Xbox One and PS4 game consoles.
On 8 October 2014, AMD appointed Lisa Su president and CEO of the company replacing Rory. Read.
In February 2022, Lisa became Chair of AMD after completing a reported $49 billion acquisition of FPGA and programmable systems on chip maker Xilinx
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Lisa Su, a Taiwanese-American was born on November 7, 1969 in Tainan, Taiwan. She did her graduation in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1991, she obtained her master's degree from MIT. In 1994, she graduated with her PhD in electrical engineering from MIT. Su's PhD thesis was titled Extreme-submicrometer silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFETs.
