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AMD CEO Lisa Su Strengthens Ties With Korean AI Chipmakers to Challenge Nvidia
- •AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su met with South Korean officials and 13 AI companies in Seoul to explore partnerships combining AMD processors with Korean neural processing units.
- •The collaboration aims to expand AMD's AI inference offerings and provide Korean chipmakers with access to global markets, intensifying competition with Nvidia.
- •AMD reaffirmed plans to establish an AI Center for Excellence in South Korea by the end of the year and hire hundreds of local researchers.
- •Discussions also focused on integrating Korean technologies into AMD's open-source ROCm software ecosystem to compete with Nvidia's CUDA platform.
- •Su highlighted ongoing investments in local computing capacity, university partnerships, and potential manufacturing collaborations with Samsung.
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AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su met with Second Vice Science Minister Ryu Je-myung and executives from 13 Korean AI companies in Seoul to explore pairing AMD's CPUs and GPUs with Korean neural processing units for AI inference. They also discussed demonstration projects to test the systems for overseas deployment and joining AMD's open-source ROCm software ecosystem.
Returning to Korea seven months after her previous visit, Lisa Su reaffirmed plans to establish an AI Center for Excellence in the country by the end of the year and hire hundreds of researchers. AMD will fund the hardware for the center and continue supporting graduate-level AI training, though its location has not yet been selected.
The roundtable in Seoul brought together 13 companies working across AI chips, software, and cloud services, including FuriosaAI, HyperAccel, DeepX, Mobilint, MangoBoost, Panmnesia, Dnotitia, Moreh, Nota AI, Lablup, Fadu, Elice Group, and Upstage.
