Timeline Lisa Su and the machine-learning Nobel

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• 2014 Lisa Su becomes CEO — the turnaround begins Lisa Su becomes AMD's CEO on 8 October 2014, replacing Rory Read. Su, an MIT-trained electrical engineer with a background in semiconductor R&D at IBM, Freescale and AMD itself, is one of the most technically credible CEOs in the industry. She immediately focuses AMD on its core competency: high-performance computing chips. She kills marginal businesses, increases R&D investment in CPUs and GPUs, and commissions a completely new processor architecture — the project that becomes Zen. Su's appointment is the inflection point in AMD's history.
• 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for machine learning John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton honoured for neural networks The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on 8 October to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.