AMD once owned its own chip factories. In 2009 it spun them off into GlobalFoundries and went “fabless,” betting everything on design — the bet that eventually let it challenge Intel.

AMD’s Lisa Su and NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang — who run the two companies at the center of the AI-chip boom — are distant relatives, a fact both have publicly confirmed.

AMD’s Lisa Su was born in Tainan, Taiwan, and moved to the United States as a child. She earned all three of her degrees — bachelor’s, master’s, and a PhD in electrical engineering — at MIT.