Meet Lisa Su, Jensen Huang's cousin, who's CEO of Nvidia rival AMD

AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, grew up in Queens and obtained three degrees from MIT. She's also the cousin of Jensen Huang, former CEO of rival Nvidia, who resigned on Thursday. Here is a look at her career rise, personal life, and challenges over the years. Editor's note: This story was originally published in October of 2025 and has been updated to reflect Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation. Lisa Su is the engineer behind one of the most dramatic corporate turnarounds in the tech industry. The Taiwanese American CEO is widely credited with transforming AMD from a struggling semiconductor firm on the brink of collapse into a global powerhouse competing head-to-head with Intel and Nvidia. When Su joined AMD in 2012, the company's market value was under $2 billion. Within a decade of her leadership, AMD's innovations in high-performance computing and graphics, especially the Ryzen CPUs and EPYC server processors, catapulted the company's value to over $950 billion as of Thursday.

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