Question 1

True or false: Lisa Su holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT.

Accepted Answer

True. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT in 1994, focusing on semiconductor device physics.

Question 2

True or false: Lisa Su was the first woman to win the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Award.

Accepted Answer

True. She won the medal in 2021 for contributions to semiconductor technology, becoming its first female recipient.

Question 3

True or false: She once turned down a job offer from Apple to stay at AMD.

Accepted Answer

False. There is no public evidence Su ever received or declined a job offer from Apple while at AMD.

Question 4

True or false: She co-designed the original PlayStation 3’s Cell processor.

Accepted Answer

True. While at IBM, Su contributed to the Cell processor project, which later powered Sony’s PlayStation 3.

Question 5

True or false: She became CEO of AMD in 2014, making her the youngest CEO in the company’s history.

Accepted Answer

False. She became CEO in 2014, but she was not the youngest; that distinction belongs to other past CEOs.

Question 6

True or false: Lisa Su’s first job out of college was as a cashier at McDonald’s.

Accepted Answer

False. Su started her career at Texas Instruments and later IBM; there is no record of her working at McDonald’s.

Question 7

True or false: She speaks five languages fluently, including Mandarin and Cantonese.

Accepted Answer

True. Su was born in Taiwan and raised in the U.S., but she is known to speak Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, among others.

Question 8

True or false: Lisa Su’s father was a famous mathematician who taught at Harvard.

Accepted Answer

False. Her father was a data scientist and her mother an accountant; neither taught at Harvard.

Lisa Su Trivia Questions