South Korea's Nationwide Effort for AI Semiconductor Industry

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world's leading memory semiconductor companies, have launched investment and employment plans for their AI semiconductor and foundry businesses. Samsung Electronics is trying to develop next-generation AI semiconductor products by leveraging its strengths in mobile chipset design and memory manufacturing. Samsung develops its own neural processing units (NPUs) and integrates them into multiple processing platforms, including the Exynos mobile processor and the Exynos auto processor series. Once secretly focusing solely on their own product development, major companies are starting to open up relations with the academia and research communities to learn the latest AI technologies and engage with well-educated researchers. Another notable product development direction is putting AI computation logic into memories.