Samsung Electronics wins cutting-edge AI chip order from Japan's Preferred Networks
09/07/2024 06:00
SEOUL, July 9 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics
005930.KS said on Tuesday it won an order from Japanese
artificial intelligence company Preferred Networks to make chips
for AI applications using the South Korean firm's 2-nanometre
foundry process and advanced chip packaging service.
It is the first order Samsung has revealed for its
cutting-edge 2-nanometre chip contract manufacturing process.
Samsung did not elaborate on the size of the order.
The chips will be made using high-tech chip architecture
known as gate all-around (GAA) and multiple chips will be
integrated in one package to enhance inter-connection speed and
reduce size, Samsung said in a statement.
South Korea's Gaonchips Co 399720.KQ designed the chips,
Samsung said.
The chips will go toward Preferred Networks'
high-performance computing hardware for generative AI
technologies such as large language models, Junichiro Makino,
Preferred Networks vice president and chief technology officer
of computing architecture, said in the statement.
(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
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