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Advanced Micro Devices
| Appointee | Lisa Su |
|---|---|
| Role | CEO |
| Organisation | Advanced Micro Devices |
| Domain | Corporate Leadership |
| Start | 8 October 2014 |
| End | Currently in role |
| Notes | First woman CEO of AMD; led major semiconductor turnaround |
Institutional context
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a major US semiconductor company, founded in 1969 in Santa Clara, California, and a principal competitor to Intel in microprocessor manufacture. From AMD's founding through 2014 every CEO was male.
Career path
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su (born 1969 in Tainan, Taiwan) emigrated to the United States in childhood. She earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, with her PhD work on silicon-on-insulator transistor technology. She held research and senior management positions at IBM and Freescale Semiconductor before joining AMD in 2012 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Global Business Units.
Appointment
AMD's board of directors selected her as President and CEO effective 8 October 2014. She is the first woman CEO of AMD and the first to lead a major US semiconductor manufacturer.
Tenure
Active. Tenure has covered AMD's substantial competitive recovery from the early-2010s low point, including the launch of the Zen microarchitecture in 2017, the regaining of competitive parity with Intel in CPU performance, and AMD's emergence as a principal supplier in the artificial-intelligence accelerator market through the MI300 series. AMD's market capitalisation increased by approximately fifty-fold during the first decade of her tenure.
Cluster context
Su's October 2014 appointment is part of the dataset's 2014 cluster within the corporate-leadership domain — Barra at GM (January), Wojcicki at YouTube (February), Su at AMD (October). Her continued tenure makes her one of the longest-serving major-tech first-woman CEOs in the dataset.