Lisa Su, chairwoman of AMD, shortened her originally planned two-day visit to Korea to one day and returned to the United States. She had been scheduled to meet with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT, Baek Jong-woon, on the 8th, but her stay in Korea was cut short as she became required to attend a White House event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
According to industry sources on the 8th, Su had originally planned to stay in Korea for two days, from the 7th to the 8th, to meet with government officials and domestic corporate executives. On the 8th, she was set to meet with Deputy Prime Minister Baek to discuss cooperation plans in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
However, her schedule changed after President Trump invited Su to the “Science – A New Golden Age” summit being held at the White House on the 8th (local time). Su shortened her Korea visit to just one day on the 7th and headed back to the United States.
The meeting with the government was also adjusted accordingly. Deputy Prime Minister Baek was unable to meet with Su on the 7th due to a schedule related to the Nuri rocket launch. Initially, since Su was scheduled to stay in Korea until the 8th, a meeting had been planned for that day, but as her visit was reduced to one day, Ryu Je-myeong, Second Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and ICT, met with Su on the 7th instead.
According to Fox News, President Trump is expected to present medals to prominent U.S. science and technology figures, including Su, at the White House summit on the 8th. Su will receive the “National Medal of Science,” the highest honor in the U.S. science field, alongside Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA; and Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, will be awarded the “National Medal of Technology and Innovation.” This is the first time President Trump has personally presented these medals across his two terms in office.
Despite the shortened visit, Su met successively with the government and domestic companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix on the 7th. Following a meeting with Ryu (Vice Minister), she held a roundtable with domestic AI semiconductor and startup executives to discuss participation in AMD’s open-source software platform ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) ecosystem and entry into global markets. She also announced plans to hire hundreds of AI research and development personnel in Korea.
Afterward, Su completed the remaining schedule of her Korea visit, including AMD events, before departing for the United States.
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