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This meeting was prepared as a follow-up to the MoU between the Ministry of Science and ICT and AMD signed at President Lee Jae-myung's San Francisco AI Summit in July.
AMD Chairman and CEO Lisa Su visited Korea and announced that she would hire hundreds of researchers at the AI research base to be established in Korea and expand infrastructure and industry-academic cooperation with domestic companies.
In a meeting with Ryu Je-myeong, Second Vice Minister of Science and ICT, held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul on the 7th, Chairman Lisa Su announced plans to establish an AMD AI Research Center (CoE, Center of Excellence) in Korea and said, "We plan to hire hundreds of AI researchers to not only advance AI technology but also contribute to supporting Korea's AI ecosystem."
Investment to expand AI computing capabilities in Korea was also mentioned.
Chairman Su explained that he is expanding computing capacity so that domestic AI startups and general users can more easily utilize AI, and that as the first example of this, he built the first cloud facility in collaboration with the domestic company Mango Boost.
An industry-academia cooperation plan was also introduced. Chairman Lisa Su announced that she recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University's AI Research Center and that she will expand cooperation with domestic universities and startups in the future.
Vice Minister Ryu Je-myeong expressed his gratitude, saying that AMD has been quickly implementing its promises since signing the MoU in July.
He added, "As the AI inference market grows, AMD, a key player in the semiconductor ecosystem, should actively cooperate with domestic neural network processing unit (NPU) startups."
He said that the creation of an open AI computing ecosystem is a direction that the Korean industry, government, and AMD agree on, and requested expansion of related cooperation.
This meeting was prepared as a follow-up to the MoU between the Ministry of Science and ICT and AMD signed at President Lee Jae-myung's San Francisco AI Summit in July.
The meeting will be followed by a meeting attended by 14 domestic AI semiconductor, software, and cloud companies, including Rebellion, Furiosa AI, and Mango Boost.
The Ministry of Science and ICT plans to review the cooperation proposals of companies presented at the meeting and develop them into specific cooperation tasks linked to the MoU follow-up measures.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
AMD will establish an AI research center (CoE) in Korea within the year and hire hundreds of researchers.
Very likely · Within months
The Ministry of Science and ICT will review the cooperation proposals presented at the meeting with 14 companies, including Rebellion, Furiosa AI, and Mango Boost, and develop them into specific cooperation tasks.
Likely · Within weeks
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