How Semiconductor Innovation Could Help Prevent The Next Pandemic - KDnuggets

Over the past six months the world has been focused on the singular goal of developing treatments, vaccines, and containment strategies but what no one expected was how the tech world would rise to the challenge presented by Covid-19. While front line responders and essential workers put their lives on the line, researchers and scientists turned to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers. In mere months, emerging technologies have been rolled out and leveraged to full effect to vastly boost computing power, dramatically increase access to high-performance computing (HPC), and accelerate research by orders of magnitude. AI and HPC are being leveraged to not only assess and develop treatments but also to create potential vaccines, manage shutdowns and reopenings, analyze and enable access to digital medical records, and even to help develop better face masks. Samsung Semiconductor technology has played a particularly essential role in the fight against Covid-19.