AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su is on equal ground with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Disney’s Robert Iger, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella | Named One of World’s Best CEOs

The US-based financial newspaper Barron’s recently released its list of the “World’s Best CEOs of 2019,” in which AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is included and prominently featured on both the online publication and on the front page of the physical magazine (which also has the subtitle “How Lisa Su engineered a stunning turnaround at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices”).

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Lisa Su is placed on equal ground with CEOs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Disney’s Robert Iger, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. Barron’s added Su to the list due to AMD’s recovery in the market. After having been appointed CEO of AMD in 2014, it took some time for Su put AMD in the position it’s in now.

Su’s engineering background is one of her keys to success. “I love spending time with the engineers, going into the lab, and getting a feel for what the real challenges are, because it just helps me make better decisions on the business,” Su said to Barrons.

Under her leadership and her as the CEO, AMD has seen the successful release of its CPU architecture Zen and its GPU architecture Polaris. The imminent launches of Zen 2 based CPUs and Navi based GPUs mark the first products that an AMD under Su’s direction is responsible for. Zen 2 in particular has been praised thanks to its potent combination of the new 7nm node from TSMC, vast architectural improvements, and utilization of chiplet technology.

How about NVIDIA?

Barron’s actually removed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang off of its “World’s Best CEOs” list because the company “has disappointed on new Turing graphics chips, key to its gaming business.” With 7nm and Navi based GPUs on the horizon, AMD is continuing to advance on gaming consoles, mobile devices, and displays with its FreeSync technology. It seems that the worst case for AMD is that Navi succeeds everywhere but the desktop.

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