Energy efficiency is 8 times higher than Nvidia H100, Samsung teamed up with Naver to release new AI chips
2023-12-27
Samsung Electronics announced at the end of 2022 that it will collaborate with South Korean internet giant Naver to jointly invest in AI semiconductor solutions.
According to South Korean media BusinessKorea, the two companies have made significant breakthroughs in AI semiconductors by developing their first solution chip, which is 8 times more energy-efficient than Nvidia's H100 product.
The semiconductor solution promoted by both parties, specifically targeting Naver's HyperCLOVA X large language model, has customized a field programmable logic gate array (FPGA) chip.
Naver stated that this chip uses LPDDR memory, which is eight times more energy efficient than Nvidia's AI GPU, but did not provide detailed information about the other details of the chip.
The focus of cooperation between the two companies is to use Samsung's advanced process technology, combined with high-tech memory solutions such as computing storage, memory processing (PIM), near memory processing (PNM), and computing fast link (CXL), and integrate Naver's strength in software and AI algorithms.
Jinman Han, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Samsung Electronics Memory, stated that through collaboration with Naver, we will develop cutting-edge semiconductor solutions to address memory bottlenecks in large-scale artificial intelligence systems.