SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – In a glass-lit exhibition hall in southern Seoul, the quiet hum of competition filled the air. Two of South Korea’s tech titans—Samsung Electronics and SK hynix—unveiled their newest weapons in the global race to power artificial intelligence: the sixth generation of high bandwidth memory chips, or HBM4. The debut [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. and Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent said Wednesday they are working together to develop next-generation chips that could potentially power the South Korean tech company’s smart consumer appliances and automotive products. Tenstorrent, founded in 2016, builds computers for artificial intelligence (AI). CEO Jim Keller is a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea targets to develop up to 50 types of artificial intelligence-focused system semiconductors by 2030, the ICT ministry said Monday, as the country strives to take a leading position in the semiconductor sector beyond its traditional foothold in memory chips. AI chips refer to high performance and power [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday that it will spend 14.3 billion won (US$12.2 million) in the next three years to help develop artificial intelligence (AI) chips that can be used in self-driving cars. Asia’s fourth-largest economy views autonomous vehicles as one of the industrial sectors for further growth [...]