Lisa Su

Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, is celebrated for executing one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in semiconductor history, transforming AMD from a struggling also-ran into a formidable competitor to industry giants Intel and NVIDIA. Appointed in 2014, Su made bold strategic bets, focusing high-performance computing and betting the company on a modular chiplet design architecture with the Ryzen (CPU) and EPYC (server) processors. This technical brilliance, combined with flawless execution, allowed AMD to seize significant market share in PCs and, crucially, data centers.

While NVIDIA dominates AI training, Su has positioned AMD's Instinct MI300 accelerators as a credible alternative, and its CPUs are now the preferred choice for many cloud providers. An engineer with a PhD from MIT, Su's influence stems from proving that through superior architecture and execution, an underdog can disrupt entrenched monopolies, bringing competition and innovation back to critical computing infrastructure.