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 with the subtitle “How Lisa Su engineered a stunning turnaround at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices.”
Barron’s put Dr. 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. Under her leadership, AMD has seen the successful release of its CPU architecture Zen and its GPU architecture Polaris, both of which had been planned before her appointment as CEO. 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 due to its combination of the new 7nm node from TSMC, architectural improvements, and utilization of chiplet design technology.
