DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Southeast Asia, Samsung
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Samsung working with OpenAI on next-generation chips - report
Building on memory deal signed last year
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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 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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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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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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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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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 and Korea Southeast Power to develop fully integrated hydrogen-powered data center in South Korea
Will utilize a 900MW hydrogen plant and 300MW of battery energy storage to support the operations of a large-scale data center
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Samsung to cut executive-level jobs from chip division; moves upcoming Wafer Foundry Forum event to online only
Company is looking to streamline foundry business in wake of disappointing Q3 results
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Growing memory chip demand fuels 933% increase in Samsung Electronics’ operating profit
First quarter revenue totaled $52.3bn
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Naver orders $752m Samsung Mach-1 AI accelerators
The deal will help South Korean cloud company Naver reduce its reliance on Nvidia hardware
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Samsung and SK Hynix lead investment into new South Korean semiconductor mega cluster
Initial investments from the companies total around $471 billion - but derided as a "nothing burger" by analyst
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Ex-Samsung exec charged with stealing entire plans for a chip fab to build Chinese clone
Made in China, designed in South Korea
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Samsung to build memory-based supercomputer by 2028
Samsung Electronics CEO detailed plans in lecture at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology
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Samsung and partners join Tomorrow Water to combine data centers and sewage
Korean group will integrate digital and sanitation infrastructure
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Samsung SDS targets cloud growth in South Korea with Chuncheon data center
To help reduce reliance on sister firms
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Samsung SDS to build data center in Chuncheon, South Korea
The company’s fifth in the country
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Gartner: Samsung emerges as the world’s largest chipmaker
While worldwide semiconductor revenue grows 22.2 percent in a year
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Samsung kicks off production of faster DDR4 DRAM
More bandwidth, less power consumption
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Samsung to bid for Seoul government cloud project
Will compete with LG and SK Holdings C&C