Lisa Su

Chair & CEO, AMD

Lisa Su has run AMD since 2014, a period in which its market value grew from about $3 billion to more than $1 trillion. She now leads its push against Nvidia in AI, with rack-scale systems running at OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle.

Net worth: $2.0B; GuruFocus holdings, Oct 16, 2026
Company: 1

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Known for

Turning AMD from a near-bankrupt also-ran into the only credible second source for AI accelerators.

Worth knowing

In 2000 she spent a year as technical assistant to IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner, then started a new group in which, she said, she "was basically director of myself".
In 2021 she became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal.
MIT Technology Review named her a Top Innovator Under 35 in 2001, partly for her work in IBM's Emerging Products division.
On October 7, 2026, she spent three hours over dinner with Samsung chip chief Jun Young-hyun in Seoul, seven months after the two signed AMD's HBM4 supply memorandum.

Age: 56
Based: Santa Clara, CA
Primary role: Chair & CEO, AMD
Citizenship: United States
Latest trade: Sold $48.1M of AMD, 14 September 2026
Born: 1969, Tainan, Taiwan

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AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, $117 million a head, as rivals give it away

Paying $117 million per head for Fei-Fei Li's startup makes sense only if spatial intelligence reshapes silicon from scratch.

October 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Latest on Lisa Su

AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, $117 million a head, as rivals give it away

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan discussed collaboration with AMD; outside customers are 5.1% of Intel's foundry revenue

Vultr's third AMD order adds a 20 MW Chennai cluster before AMD's November 3 report

OpenAI now decides what Cerebras's wafer is worth

Nan Ya PCB outsold all of 2025 in nine months as AMD pays to loosen Taiwan's substrate squeeze

AMD backs the rent on Core Scientific's 529 megawatts of 15-year AI leases, on terms never filed

Nvidia server assembler Wistron doubles revenue, then sells $1.47 billion of stock

AMD's inference software caught up with Nvidia's, and its stock still fell 5.57%

AMD raises its CPU forecast a third time to $200 billion; Nvidia already ships the rival rack

AI's price wave reaches the processor: Intel up to 20%, Qualcomm 10%, TSMC next

Nvidia's biggest server maker printed $95 billion; its US ticker traded $71,000

AMD locks substrates into a five-year plan; the newest Unimicron target sits under the price

AMD's first HBM4 chips are out, and Samsung's $80 billion quarter puts SK hynix's 78.4% margins to the test

ASE spent NT$10 billion in three weeks building the packaging slots AMD cannot get

AMD bought 12 gigawatts of OpenAI and Meta demand with 320 million penny shares

Intel and AMD lift prices 10% and hand TSMC's bill to the PC makers

Luma's Hollywood pitch rests on a borrowed voice and a model layer it reportedly rents

AMD Is Buying the AI Lab It Funded in February, and Paying With $8.2 Billion of Its Own Stock

Autodesk paid $200m for a research seat. AMD's $8.2bn buyout pays it out in stock and keeps the agenda

AMD signed an $8.2 billion deal and cannot say what it costs in shares

Server CPUs now quote 25 to 30 weeks; the boring chip has a waiting list

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Latest on Lisa Su

AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, $117 million a head, as rivals give it away

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan discussed collaboration with AMD; outside customers are 5.1% of Intel's foundry revenue

Vultr's third AMD order adds a 20 MW Chennai cluster before AMD's November 3 report

OpenAI now decides what Cerebras's wafer is worth

Nan Ya PCB outsold all of 2025 in nine months as AMD pays to loosen Taiwan's substrate squeeze

AMD backs the rent on Core Scientific's 529 megawatts of 15-year AI leases, on terms never filed

Nvidia server assembler Wistron doubles revenue, then sells $1.47 billion of stock

AMD's inference software caught up with Nvidia's, and its stock still fell 5.57%

AMD raises its CPU forecast a third time to $200 billion; Nvidia already ships the rival rack

AI's price wave reaches the processor: Intel up to 20%, Qualcomm 10%, TSMC next

Nvidia's biggest server maker printed $95 billion; its US ticker traded $71,000

AMD locks substrates into a five-year plan; the newest Unimicron target sits under the price

AMD's first HBM4 chips are out, and Samsung's $80 billion quarter puts SK hynix's 78.4% margins to the test

ASE spent NT$10 billion in three weeks building the packaging slots AMD cannot get

AMD bought 12 gigawatts of OpenAI and Meta demand with 320 million penny shares

Intel and AMD lift prices 10% and hand TSMC's bill to the PC makers

Luma's Hollywood pitch rests on a borrowed voice and a model layer it reportedly rents

AMD Is Buying the AI Lab It Funded in February, and Paying With $8.2 Billion of Its Own Stock

Autodesk paid $200m for a research seat. AMD's $8.2bn buyout pays it out in stock and keeps the agenda

AMD signed an $8.2 billion deal and cannot say what it costs in shares

Server CPUs now quote 25 to 30 weeks; the boring chip has a waiting list

Connections

At AMD

In the same stories

Largest fund holders of AMD

Ties, as Forbes lists them

Either side by net worth