Background
Su was born in Tainan, Taiwan and immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of 3.
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Su was born in Tainan, Taiwan and immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of 3.
She was appointed president and Chief Executive Officer in October 2014. She had previously been a senior vice president, corporate director, and chief operating officer at AMD. Before joining AMD, Su worked at Texas Instruments, International Business Machines Corporation, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She has bachelor"s, master"s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
She spent 1995 to 2007 at International Business Machines Corporation in engineering and business management positions, including vice president of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center responsible for the strategic direction of International Business Machines Corporation’s silicon technologies, joint development alliances, and semiconductor R&Doctorate operations.
Su joined Freescale Semiconductor in 2007 as chief technology officer, and she led the company’s technology roadmap and research and development efforts. From September 2008 she was the senior vice president and general manager of Freescale"s Networking and Multimedia group, and was responsible for global strategy, marketing, and engineering for the company’s embedded communications and applications processor business.
Su became senior vice president and corporate director at AMD in January 2012, and chief operating officer in June 2014. She was appointed president and Chief Executive Officer of AMD in October 2014, replacing Rory Read.
In 1994 Su was a member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments, in its Semiconductor Process and Device Center (SPDC).