[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 186 (Friday, October 30, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E994-E995]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF LISA SU, PH.D.

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 30, 2020

  Ms. ESHOO. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Lisa Su, 
President and Chief Executive Officer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 
who is being presented with the Spirit of Silicon Valley Lifetime of 
Achievement Award by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group

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(SVLG). This annual Award honors an individual who has had a 
transformative impact on Silicon Valley.
  Lisa Su was born in Taiwan and came to the United States with her 
family at the age of three. She graduated from the Bronx High School of 
Science and earned her Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees at MIT.
  Dr. Su is being honored by SVLG for her extraordinary leadership of 
AMD and her commitment to our community and to Silicon Valley. She has 
served as Co-Chair of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's Silicon Valley 
Recovery Roundtable. In October 2014, Dr. Su was named President and 
Chief Executive Officer of AMD, and is a member of the company's Board 
of Directors. Dr. Su joined AMD in January 2012 as Senior Vice 
President and General Manager of global business units.
  Prior to joining AMO, she was Senior Vice President at Freescale 
Semiconductor, Inc. where she was responsible for global strategy, 
marketing and engineering for the company's embedded communications and 
applications processor business. Prior to Freescale she spent 13 years 
at IBM in various engineering and business leadership positions, 
including serving as Vice President of IBM's Semiconductor Research and 
Development Center, responsible for the strategic direction of the 
company's silicon technologies, joint development alliances and 
semiconductor R&D operations. Prior to IBM, she was a member of the 
technical staff at Texas Instruments from 1994-1995.
  Dr. Su has published more than 40 technical articles and was named a 
Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers in 
2009. In 2018, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 
was named ``Businessperson of the Year'' by Fortune Magazine and 
received the prestigious Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. 
In 2019, Dr. Su was named one of the World's 50 Best CEOs by Barron's, 
one of the ``Most Powerful Women in Business'' by Fortune Magazine and 
was included in The Bloomberg 50 list of people who defined the year. 
In 2020, Dr. Su was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science.
  Dr. Su serves on the Boards of Cisco Inc. and the U.S. Semiconductor 
Industry Association and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the 
Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).
  Madam Speaker, I ask the entire House of Representatives to join me 
in honoring Dr. Lisa Su as she is presented with the Spirit of Silicon 
Valley Lifetime of Achievement Award. She has earned and richly 
deserves this great honor.

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