Report: Samsung Nearly Completes Development of AI Chips for Smartphones and Servers

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a bit of a buzzword these days, as companies in the industry make an effort to differentiate their offerings. In 2017, both Apple and Huawei released hardware designed to accelerating AI on their in-house chips -- Apple's A11 Bionic system-on-chip featured the Neural Engine, and Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 970 had a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Now, Samsung has nearly completed development of its own AI chips, according to a report by The Investor. The company is reportedly "almost done" with a hardware line optimized for servers, and it expects to commercialize it in the coming months. On the mobile device side of things, Samsung is said to have matched the technical achievements of Apple and Huawei.