Speaker
Lisa Su
Chair & CEO - AMD
Biography
Lisa T. Su is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Over the course of her tenure as CEO, Dr. Su has transformed the company to become a leader in high-performance and adaptive computing and one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies in the world.
Prior to joining AMD, Dr. Su served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Networking and Multimedia at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (a semiconductor manufacturing company) responsible for global strategy, marketing, and engineering for the company’s embedded communications and applications processor business. She also spent thirteen years at IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, including as Vice President of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center with responsibility for IBM’s silicon research and development activities.
Dr. Su has published more than forty technical articles and was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) in 2009. In 2018, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and received the Global Semiconductor Association’s Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. In 2020, Fortune named Dr. Su #2 on its “Business Person of the Year” list and she received the Grace Hopper Technical Leadership Abie Award. In 2021, she was recognized by the IEEE with its highest semiconductor honor, the Robert N. Noyce Medal and was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cisco Systems, Inc., since January 2020 and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. Lisa was recognized as a 2022 Fortune Most Powerful Woman and a 2022 International Peace Honors Honoree for her achievements in revolutionizing high performance computing, the donation of supercomputing power for infectious disease research, and inspiring people from all backgrounds to pursue careers in STEM.
Talk(s)
Imec Innovation Award Ceremony
Beyond the silicon horizon: breaking barriers in AI performance and efficiency
AI is the most important technology innovation of the last 50 years. Delivering future generations of highly-performant and energy-efficient systems will be critical to applying the power of AI to help solve the world’s most important challenges. The required technology will span silicon architecture, advanced packaging, memory design, networking and the fundamental coupling of hardware and software to power future inferencing and training applications.
Silicon architecture has moved beyond monolithic chips and into 3.5D design built for petaflops of compute packed into dense modules with high bandwidth memory. The most advanced AI processors are pushing the boundaries of design tools, manufacturability, power delivery and cooling. At the same time, connecting thousands of AI processors at scale to enable maximum compute performance will require new innovations based on co-designing hardware and software as a solution. This presentation will explore developments and opportunities to chart a path for building the next generation of AI infrastructure.