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That month, IBM hired Su as a research staff member specializing in device physics, and she was appointed vice president of IBM's semiconductor research and development center.
This compresses two events that were years apart. IBM hired Lisa Su in 1995, but contemporaneous and official bios show she later rose to vice president, rather than being appointed VP immediately upon joining IBM.
Full reasoning
AMD's official 2011 announcement introducing Lisa Su says she spent thirteen years with IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including vice president of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center. That wording describes the vice presidency as a later role during her IBM tenure, not something she received when first hired.
A contemporaneous 2005 EE Times report is more specific: "Lisa Su, a 10-year IBM veteran, was named vice president of the IBM semiconductor research and development center" on October 26, 2005. If she joined IBM in 1995, being named VP as a 10-year IBM veteran in 2005 directly contradicts the article's claim that she was appointed vice president in February 1995.
So the claim incorrectly merges Su's 1995 hiring at IBM with her later promotion to vice president about a decade afterward.
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- AMD to Appoint Dr. Lisa Su as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Units
Prior to her tenure at Freescale, Dr. Su spent thirteen years with IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including vice president of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center...
- IBM names Lisa Su as semiconductor VP - EE Times
Lisa Su, a 10-year IBM veteran, was named vice president of the IBM semiconductor research and development center ... 10.26.2005
MIT Technology Review named her a "Top Innovator Under 35" in 2001
The year is wrong. Multiple official biographies state that MIT Technology Review honored Lisa Su in 2002, not 2001.
Full reasoning
MIT's own 2017 news profile of Lisa Su says she "was honored in Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators in 2002." AMD's official 2011 announcement about Su says the same thing: she "was named MIT Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators in 2002."
Those two official biographies agree on the year 2002, which contradicts the article's claim that this recognition came in 2001.
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- Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices president and CEO, to speak at 2017 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods | MIT News
Su was named "2014 Executive of the Year" ... and was honored in Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators in 2002.
- AMD to Appoint Dr. Lisa Su as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Business Units
She has authored or co-authored more than 40 technical publications and was named MIT Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators in 2002.