Lisa Su Biography

Lisa Su is a Taiwanese-American business executive and electrical engineer who was born and brought up as Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su in Tainan, Taiwan. She is the president, chief executive officer and chair of AMD. She is popularly 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.

10 Quick Facts About Lisa Su

1. Name: Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su
2. Age: 53 years
3. Birthday: 7 November
4. Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
5. Height: 5 feet 1 inch
6. Nationality: Taiwanese-American
7. Occupation: Business executive, electrical engineer, president, CEO and chair of AMD
8. Marital Status: Married
9. Salary: Under Review
10. Net worth: $248 million dollars

Lisa Su Age

Lisa is 53 years old as of 2023, she was born on 7 November 1969, in Tainan, Taiwan. She celebrates her birthday on 7 November every year and her birth sign is Scorpio.

Lisa Su Height

Su stands at the height of 5 feet 1 inch. She appears to be quite tall in stature if her photos, relative to her surroundings, are anything to go by.

Lisa Su Weight

Lisa has a weight of 55 kg.

Lisa Su Education

Lisa enrolled at Bronx High School of Science in New York City. She joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She pursued Ph.D. under MIT advisor Dimitri Antoniadis.

Lisa Su Family

Lisa was born and raised by her parent Tom Su her father and Sandy Su her mother in Tainan, Taiwan. She has a brother.

Lisa Su Husband

Su is happily married to Daniel Lin. The couple lives in Austin, Texas.

Lisa Su’s Net Worth

Lisa has an estimated net worth of $248 million dollars as of 2023. This includes her assets, money and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a business executive and electrical engineer. Through her various sources of income, Lisa has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

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Lisa Su Wiki

• Full Name: Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su
• Popular As: Lisa
• Gender: Female
• Occupation / Profession: Business executive, electrical engineer, president, CEO and chair of AMD
• Nationality: Taiwanese-American
• Race / Ethnicity: Asian
• Religion: Not Available
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Lisa Su Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 53 years
• Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
• Date of Birth:7 November 1969
• Place of Birth: Tainan, Taiwan
• Birthday: 7 November

Lisa Su Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Tom Su
• Mother: Sandy Su
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): One
• Marital Status: Married
• Dating / Boyfriend: Not Applicable
• Husband/Spouse: Married to Daniel Lin
• Children: Sons ( Not Available) Daughter(s) (Not Available)

Lisa Su’s Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $248 million dollars
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: Her career as a business executive, electrical engineer, president, CEO and chair of AMD

Texas Instruments and IBM R&D 1994–1999

Su became a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments, working in the company’s Semiconductor Process and Device Center SPDC until June 1994.IBM hired her as a research staff member specializing in device physics and she was nominated as vice president of IBM’s semiconductor investigation and improve the center. She 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. Working with several IBM design teams on the details of the device, she elaborated, my specialty was not in copper, but I migrated to where the problems were. The copper technology was opened in 1998, resulting in new industry standards and chips that were up to 20% faster than the conventional versions.

IBM Emerging Products division 2000–2007

Su was given a year-long assignment as the technical assistant for Lou Gerstner, IBM’s CEO in 2000. She took on the role of director of emerging strategy, stating that I was basically the director of myself there was number one else in the group. As head and founder of IBM’s Emerging Products division, she ran a startup company and soon hired ten employees to main on biochips and low-power and broadband semiconductors. Their first product was a microprocessor that develop battery life in phones and other handheld devices. MIT Technology Review titles her a Top Innovator Under thirty-five, in part due to her work with Emerging Products. Also through the division, she 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 her team came up with the idea for a 9-processor chip, which became the Cell microprocessor used to power devices including the Sony PlayStation three. She went on to serve as vice president of the semiconductor investigation and development center at IBM, holding the role.

Freescale Semiconductor 2007–2011

In June 2007, Su joined Freescale Semiconductor as chief technology officer, heading the company’s investigation and development. She served as 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 from September 2008 until December 2011. In 2011, as head of the company’s networking-chip entrepreneur, EE Times credited her with assisting Freescale to get its house in order, with the company filing for an IPO.

AMD appointments 2012–2014

In January 2012, Su became senior vice president and general manager at AMD, overseeing the company’s global business units and the end-to-end business execution of AMD’s products. Over the next 2 decades, she played a prominent role in pushing the company to diversify beyond the PC market, such as working with Microsoft and Sony to place AMD chips in Xbox One and PS4 game consoles.
AMD announced her appointment to president and CEO, replacing Rory Read on 8 October 2014. She stated that her plan for the company involved majoring in making the right technology investments, streamlining the product line and going on to diversify, also asserting that she wanted to simplify the company and accelerate the development of new technology. A couple of analysts praised the appointment due to her credentials, noting AMD was seeking growth in product areas where she had extensive experience.

AMD diversification 2015–2016

In 2012, when Su joined AMD about ten percent of sales came from non-PC products. roughly forty percent of AMD’s sales came from non-PC markets, including video game consoles and embedded devices By February 2015. She and other AMD executives presented a long-term strategy for the company to major in developing high-performance computing and graphics technologies for three growth areas, gaming, data center, and immersive platforms markets in May 2015.
She 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 in January 2016. AMD’s share value spiked when AMD reported strong revenue growth in July 2016. Fortune attributed the impressive statistic to him, stating she went on to execute her comeback plan key gains in graphics and video gaming console chips have boosted results as same as a savvy deal to license server chip designs in China.

Ryzen 2017

After the initial opening of Zen chips in quarter two of 2017, AMD’s percentage of the CPU market share surged to nearly 11%. Ryzen CPUs have gained favorable reviews from a variety of news outlets, specifically highlighting their high thread counts at prices drastically lower than those of Intel, especially in the high-performance computing market with AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper line of workstation processors. She is the first woman ever to top The Associated Press’s annual survey of CEO compensation; Her 2019 pay package was valued at $58.5 million. She became Chair of AMD after completing a reported $49 billion acquisition of FPGA and programmable systems on chip maker Xilinx in February 2022.

Directorships and authorship

She currently serves 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 co-authored a book chapter discussing next-generation consumer electronics.

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