The Korean Electronics firm for the design of AI semiconductors is all set to expand its research and development (R&D) organization in Silicon Valley, US.
The Korean giant is gearing up to improve its design capabilities just to disrupt the industry currently dominated by American Big Tech brands, such as Nvidia. It is being speculated by industry sources that Samsung’s SAIT has established an Advanced Processor Lab (APL) in Silicon Valley dedicated to AI chip design.
According to reports, the APL is primarily developing next-generation semiconductor design platforms, with a focus on the RISC-V area. The report says that RISC-V serves as a foundational design for semiconductor chipset design, a sector chiefly monopolized by ARM, a British semiconductor design asset company.
Samsung’s initiative with RISC-V is expounded as a step towards technological independence. The aim behind the Samsung APL research institute is to avoid dependence on other brands and design its own AI chips based on RISC-V. The Korean giant has designed cutting-edge semiconductor chips; for instance, Exynos is based on ARM products.
However, it is expected that Samsung could break the dominance of Nvidia and build an AI chipset that could be capable of achieving market leadership through design technology independence.
Also, Samsung has implanted a general-purpose artificial intelligence (AGI) computing lab in the US and is now advancing the development of its Mach 1 AI inference chip. Additionally, the brand has created the latest research organization to announce 3D DRAM.
