Lisa Su Biography
Lisa Su was born in Tainan, grew up in New York, earned three MIT degrees and has run AMD since 2014, turning it around 12.
Lisa Su's early life
Su was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1969 and moved to New York with her family at three. She attended the Bronx High School of Science 1.
Education
She earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, with research on silicon-on-insulator technology 12.
Career before AMD
She worked at Texas Instruments, then spent 13 years at IBM, where she helped develop copper connections for chips, before becoming chief technology officer at Freescale Semiconductor 12.
Turning AMD around
She joined AMD in 2012 and became CEO in October 2014. Under her the Ryzen and EPYC processors won back market share from Intel, and the company became a leading maker of AI chips 2.
