IT home July 20 news, according to Business Korea reports, Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor foundry department has with Tenstorrent and Groq launched a chip research project, samsung foundry department within the design service team is responsible for these research tasks.
In 2021, semiconductor industry god Jim Keller, known as the “Silicon Immortal,” officially joined Tenstorrent, a little-known AI chip startup, as chief technology officer and president. Technology Officer and President, becoming CEO in January 2023 and joining the company’s board of directors.
In 2023, Keller and Sam Zeloof (who built his own 1,200-transistor CPU in his garage and was known as the “Silicon Prodigy”) founded Atomic Semi, a startup seeking to build a small, fast semiconductor fab. Samsung and the “Silicon Prodigy.
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Samsung Electronics will work with Tenstorrent and Groq to develop AI semiconductor chips for use in advanced IT equipment, sources said.
If this task leads to mass production, it is expected that its chips will be manufactured on Samsung’s sub-5-nn EUV line and packaged in a 2.5D packaging facility.
Industry experts speculate that if Samsung successfully completes the project with the two companies it will have a significant impact on the foundry market.
As the size of the AI market driven by ChatGPT continues to grow, Samsung’s foundry, an early adopter of the partnership, could reap significant profits if the two startups’ positions are strengthened.
In addition, both companies have a lot of potential in the global AI industry, and Jim Keller, needless to say, is a legend in the semiconductor space, having led the design of state-of-the-art semiconductors at Apple, Tesla, Intel and AMD.
IT Home has learnt that Groq is a semiconductor company founded in 2016 by former Google employee Jonathan Ross, and the company’s recent partnership with Meta has fuelled speculation that Groq could pose a threat to Nvidia.
