Lisa Su, 53, is coming into her tenth yr as chair and CEO of the legendary Silicon Valley chipmaker AMD, which she is extensively credited with rescuing. Su moved from Taiwan to the U.S. on the age of three, finally incomes her engineering stripes at Bell Communications and IBM, the place she based and led the rising merchandise unit. Su turned the beforehand floundering AMD right into a formidable presence in each the central-processing and graphics-processing markets. She’s now making an attempt to grab a major chunk of the booming marketplace for AI chips, which is at the moment dominated by long-standing graphics rival Nvidia. It gained’t be straightforward, however Su desires AMD to turn out to be the trade chief within the subsequent part of AI’s improvement. AMD’s $49 billion acquisition of chip agency Xilinx final yr is boosting these ambitions, as are enhancements to the software program that AMD wants to steer builders to construct their AI fashions on its programs.
