The JEDEC Board of Directors presented its prestigious 2024 Distinguished Executive Leadership Award to Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, in a ceremony held at Intel's offices in Santa Clara, CA earlier this month. This award stands as JEDEC's highest honor and recognizes the most distinguished senior executives in the electronics industry who promote and support the advancement of JEDEC standards.

"Throughout Pat Gelsinger's distinguished career, he has consistently championed the development of open standards, as evidenced by Intel's contributions in this domain. Under his leadership, Intel has made a tremendous impact on many groundbreaking memory and IO technologies in JEDEC," said Mian Quddus, JEDEC Board of Directors Chairman. He added, "JEDEC is grateful for his invaluable support and that of the Intel team."Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, has more than four decades of technology leadership and experience driving innovation, with 30 of those years serving in Intel engineering and executive roles. He managed the creation of key industry technologies like USB and Wi-Fi. He was the architect of the original 80486 processor, led 14 microprocessor programs and played key roles in the Intel Core and Intel Xeon processor families, leading to Intel becoming the world's preeminent microprocessor supplier.