Samsung joins the race to develop AI chips
Samsung is reportedly developing several types of dedicated AI chips for commercialization in the next few years.
With Huawei teasing the industry’s first AI phone chip ahead of the launch of the Mate 10, and Apple introducing the dual-core "A11 Bionic Neural Engine" on the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, Samsung is also embarking on a similar path to develop AI chips.
Industry sources told The Korea Herald that Samsung has spent significant amount of research and development on the AI chips for commercialization in the next few years.
“(Samsung) is in the middle of developing several types of chips that will be capable of processing massive data from AI applications on devices, eliminating the need to communicate with cloud servers,” an industrial source from one of Samsung’s partners told The Korea Herald.
Yoo Hoi-Jin, professor at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Technology, said that Samsung is late in the game as it has been focusing on memory chips. To accelerate its progress on AI chip development, Samsung is said to be considering to acquire several AI ventures and their technology. For the time being, Samsung is investing in British AI chip startup Graphcore to speed up development of its own AI chips.
Source: The Korea Herald
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