Who Is Lisa Su, CEO of Nvidia's Biggest Challenger Yet?
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Corporate megastores are spending millions lobbying DC politicians on one-sided policies that send small businesses tumbling. |
| 0:08.1 | They want to enact harmful credit card mandates that take resources away from your local credit union and community bank. |
| 0:14.7 | Leaving Main Street businesses with less access to credit, making it harder for your family to pay for everyday goods like gas and groceries. |
| 0:22.9 | Tell Congress to guard your card and oppose the Durban Marshall credit card mandates. |
| 0:28.5 | Paid for by Electronic Payments Coalition. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, October 14th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.5 | Last week, AMD rocked the market with a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI, posing one of the most direct challenges yet to industry leader in Vidiya. |
| 0:51.6 | We'll introduce you to the old school CEO leading the underdog in the |
| 0:56.1 | race for AI chips. Then we'll tell you about Elon Musk's high-stakes race in Memphis to build |
| 1:03.1 | out two colossal data centers in order to stay in the AI game. |
| 1:17.6 | But first, advanced microdevices groundbreaking deal with OpenAI sent its share price soaring by over 33%. And it positioned AMD as a formidable challenger to its longtime rival, NVIDIA. |
| 1:25.6 | Behind the agreement was AMD's CEO, Lisa Sue, whose leadership is now |
| 1:30.7 | being watched by the market for future game-changing partnerships. Certainly, there's a lot of |
| 1:35.4 | engineering work, but our teams are working together on hardware, software, we're ensuring the |
| 1:40.3 | supply chain. All of those elements are set up and ready to deliver on this massive |
| 1:46.0 | commitment. That was Sue speaking with Bloomberg Tech last week. WSJ reporter Robbie Whelan joins us to |
| 1:52.4 | discuss how Sue's leadership led to this pivotal moment for the company. So Robbie, tell us about |
| 1:57.6 | AMD's Lisa Sue. What'd she like? Lisa Sue has been CEO of Advanced Micro Devices for about 11 years now. And when she took |
| 2:07.3 | over in 2014, the company had a market cap of below $3 billion today. At the end of the last |
| 2:13.5 | week, it was nearly $350 billion, which is just a really stunning turnaround. |
| 2:18.6 | Lisa Sue was born in Taiwan. Taiwan has emerged as the source of a lot of some of the greatest |
| 2:23.2 | minds in the AI infrastructure world. Jensen Wong, who's actually her distant cousin, is also |
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