Lisa Su is CEO of AMD — and Jensen Huang's cousin. Here's how she became a billionaire.

• AMD CEO Lisa Su has officially become a new entrant to Forbes' billionaire list.
• She's worth an estimated $1.3 billion and is in charge of a company vital to the generative AI boom.
• AMD, like its rival Nvidia run by her cousin, provides chips needed to power AI apps such as ChatGPT.

The generative AI boom has minted its newest billionaire: Lisa Su.

The 54-year-old hailing from Taiwan's ancient capital, Tainan, may not be a household name like many of her Silicon Valley peers.

But after a near-decade-long tenure at the helm of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Su's quiet rise to the top bracket of America's tech industry is starting to get some long-overdue attention.