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announcements came after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with South
Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Korean corporate leaders in
Seoul. Lee hailed the partnerships as a major opportunity for
South Korea's semiconductor industry to solidify its role in AI
and create more jobs.
The partnerships commit Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix — the
world’s two largest makers of memory chips — to accelerate their
production of advanced chips to meet OpenAI’s increasing memory
demands for the Stargate initiative, according to the companies’
statements.
The ChatGPT maker also reached separate agreements with SK
Telecom, South Korea’s top wireless carrier, to explore building
an AI data center in the country, dubbed “Stargate Korea,” and
with other Samsung affiliates to collaborate on data center
technologies and potentially expand local capacity.
Samsung said the agreements between OpenAI, Samsung C&T, and
Samsung Heavy Industries include a joint commitment to develop
floating data centers, which potentially offer advantages over
land-based centers by easing land scarcity, reducing cooling
costs and cutting carbon emissions.
“Korea has all the ingredients to be a global leader in AI —
incredible tech talent, world-class infrastructure, strong
government support, and a thriving AI ecosystem,” Altman said in
a statement.
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong said the world is at a
“pivotal moment with the advent of AI, and the industry must
collaborate to effectively chart the future.”
Stargate, a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle
backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, aims for a significant
expansion of computing infrastructure to support the development
and delivery of AI products. The companies have committed to
eventually invest up to $500 billion to build large-scale data
centers and secure energy generation needed to further AI
development.
OpenAI said last week that its flagship AI data center in Texas
will be joined by five others around the United States,
including two more data center complexes in Texas, one in New
Mexico, one in Ohio and another in a Midwest location it hasn’t
yet disclosed.
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