In 2014, Lisa Su took over AMD when its stock cost about $3 and the whole company was worth about $3.2 billion. One risky chip design called Zen pulled it back from the edge. Today AMD is worth close to $900 billion. This is how she did it.
How this video is made: the narration is an AI voice (ElevenLabs), written by us from the sources below, and a human reviews each video before it goes out.
Sources:
1. AMD press release, Lisa Su named president and CEO (Oct 8 2014)
2. Reuters, AMD replaces CEO, stock at $3.06, value nearly halved since 2011 (Oct 9 2014)
3. Fortune, Most Powerful Women, AMD worth $3.2 billion when Su took over (2022)
4. Forbes, Lisa Su profile: born in Tainan in 1969, moved to New York at 3, Bronx High School of Science, MIT
5. Carnegie Corporation, Great Immigrants: Lisa Su
6. MIT Technology Review, Found in Translation (May 10 2006)
7. AMD leadership page: 13 years at IBM, Freescale CTO in 2007, joined AMD in January 2012
8. CNN Business, From the brink of bankruptcy (Mar 27 2020)
9. CNBC, How AMD became a chip giant (Nov 22 2022)
10. CRN, AMD completes $49 billion Xilinx deal (Feb 2022)
11. CNBC, AMD passes Intel in market value, $153 billion vs $148 billion (Jul 29 2022)
12. AMD and OpenAI press release, 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs (Oct 6 2025)
13. Reuters, AMD signs AI chip deal with OpenAI, stock up over 34 percent (Oct 6 2025)
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