Samsung Elec's chip chief says discussed next-generation foundry, HBM cooperation with Nvidia CEO

Samsung Electronics Co

Mon 10:52

SEOUL, June 8 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics' 005930.KS co-CEO and head of its chip division, Jun Young-hyun, said on Monday he discussed cooperation in next-generation foundry chips with Nvidia NVDA.O CEO Jensen Huang during a meeting in Seoul.
Jun said Samsung and Nvidia are currently collaborating on autonomous driving chips and AI accelerator chips, and also discussed cooperation on future generations of semiconductor products. He added that the two companies had extensive discussions on long-term cooperation, including in high-bandwidth memory (HBM)4E and HBM5 chips. 

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