DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Asia Pacific, Samsung
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Samsung to fuel Korean robot ambitions as exclusive AI network provider
AI-RAN, 5G SA partnership with KT and SK Telecom to guarantee Korea's 6G and physical AI foothold in the 2030s
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Samsung working with OpenAI on next-generation chips - report
Building on memory deal signed last year
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TSMC and Samsung commit to adopting ASML’s High NA EUV lithography tools by 2030
Companies will also be joined by Intel for 12-inch photomask industry initiative
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Samsung SDS launches NPU-as-a-Service offering with FuriosaAI chips in South Korea
Will be powered by FuriosaAI's RNGD AI chip
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Samsung's quarterly profit up 1,814% on last year, cites ongoing demand for memory
Company says its memory business set “an all-time high for quarterly revenue and operating profit” in Q2
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Samsung and Broadcom announce plans to collaborate across memory, foundry, and packaging technologies
Companies estimate the partnership will be worth more than $200bn by end of decade
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Samsung forecasts YoY profit increase of 1,800% as company posts preliminary Q2 results
Samsung says it has more than doubled its quarterly sales from the previous year
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Samsung targets Q2 2028 for floating data center launch
Exploring partnerships around the world
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South Korea announces $919bn investment into three “mega projects,” plans to build 18.4GW worth of data centers by 2035
Ambitious plan aims to put the country at the forefront of the AI race
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Nvidia and Samsung to power 6G-ready digital twin for Japan telecom giant
KDDI gets the gang together for AI and RAN-driven venture
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Samsung and SK Hynix in discussions with South Korean government about future chip investments – report
Government official said announcement regarding new chip cluster expected soon
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Samsung's Vietnamese subsidiary signs first direct PPA in the country
Will offtake 70GWh of solar power from a project in Tay Ninh Province
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Synopsys extends partnership with Samsung Foundry to support AI and multi-die chip designs
Companies claim new initiatives will allow designs to come to market quicker and with improved quality
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More than 30,000 Samsung workers take to the streets to demand greater share of AI profits
The rally foreshadows 18 days of planned strike action set to take place in May
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Samsung Electronics to invest $4bn in chip packaging fab in Vietnam – report
Facility will be developed across multiple phases in northern Vietnam
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Samsung Electronics leases capacity at Digital Realty data center in Seoul, South Korea
Samsung now a customer of the ICN10 facility
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Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea vote in favor of strike action in May
Walkout comes almost two years after union carried out first-ever strike in company’s history
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Samsung and AMD sign MoU for AI memory collaboration and foundry partnership
Agreement with see Samsung supply AMD with HBM4 and DDR5 RAM for its forthcoming GPUs and CPUs
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Samsung secures Open RAN deal with Rakuten Mobile in Japan
As the vendor also pairs Vodafone on vRAN call
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ByteDance in talks with Samsung for production of 350,000 AI inferencing chips – report
Chinese tech company expecting to receive sample chips by end of March
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Samsung and SK Hynix post record profits but warn memory chip shortages will likely persist into 2027
Consumer electronics customers already having to readjust purchase orders
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Samsung to build $295m data center in eastern South Korea
Facility to be built at former manufacturing plant
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Samsung and SK Hynix to scale up memory production capacity in 2026 to meet AI demand
Announcements come as industry continues to grapple with hardware shortage
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Samsung and Hyundai announce domestic investments in AI just as South Korea finalizes tariff deal with the US
Seems to repackage previous announcements
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Nvidia to deploy more than 250,000 GPUs across South Korea, with Samsung, SK Group, and Hyundai all announcing AI factories
Government will also establish a National AI Computing Center
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Two data center MoUs signed at Korea-Vietnam Business Forum
LG and Samsung each sign deals
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Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee passes away
Jun Young-hyun will solely lead the company until a successor is found
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Samsung partners with Nvidia to drive AI RAN opportunities for mobile networks
The vendor aims to leverage its vRAN with Nvidia's GPU capabilities to push AI RAN