Chipmaker AMD taps Lisa Su as its first female CEO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

Advanced Micro Devices, one of the biggest chip-design companies in the world, has appointed Lisa Su as its president and chief executive officer. She is the latest female top executive at a major tech company, and it is the first time a woman has broken the glass ceiling at the 45-year-old AMD.

Su, 44, succeeds Rory Read, 52, who has stepped down in a surprise announcement. Read will move into an advisory role through the end of 2014.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.