FuriosaAI Closes $125M Funding to Scale AI Inference Chip Production
FuriosaAI secured $125 million in Series C bridge funding to accelerate production of its RNGD (“Renegade”) AI inference chip and ...
In Focus: Korea
Korea’s Role in the AI Infrastructure Build-Out Converge Digest tracks Korea’s digital infrastructure ecosystem across AI infrastructure, semiconductors, memory, cloud platforms, telecom networks, data centers, sovereign AI initiatives and advanced manufacturing. Coverage follows Korean companies, national investment strategies and global partnerships shaping the next generation of AI and communications infrastructure. |
Technology Pillars AI Infrastructure ›Semiconductors ›Memory ›HBM ›Sovereign AI ›Data Centers ›5G ›Cloud › |
Key Players Samsung ›SK hynix ›SK Telecom ›Samsung SDS ›KT ›LG Uplus ›Naver ›LG Electronics › |
| Tracking: Korea • National AI Strategies • AI Infrastructure Investment • GPU Clusters • Semiconductor Clusters • Memory Bandwidth • Foundry • Telecom AI |
LG AI Research Validates FuriosaAI’s Accelerator
FuriosaAI’s RNGD accelerator has demonstrated a 2.25x improvement in performance per watt for large language model (LLM) inference compared to ...
Panmnesia Unveils CXL-over-XLink Supercluster Architecture
Panmnesia, a South Korean innovator in memory and interconnect technologies, released a technical report detailing a new AI infrastructure architecture ...
KT to Deploy Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme
KT to Boost Data Speeds with KT plans to deploy Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) technology to meet rising customer ...
Quantum-Secure Network Deployed for Korea’s Critical Energy Infrastructure”
Nokia and SK Broadband have completed the deployment of a quantum-secure leased line network for Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power ...
O-RAN Alliance Collaborates with South Korea’s TTA
The Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of South Korea and the O-RAN ALLIANCE have signed a Cooperation Agreement to adopt O-RAN ...
SK Telecom to Launch GPU Cloud Services in Korea
SK Telecom announced a bold AI infrastructure strategy at the SK AI Summit 2024, where CEO Ryu Young-sang detailed plans ...
FuriosaAI Reveals High-Efficiency RNGD Chip for AI Inference
FuriosaAI, a start-up with offices in Santa Clara, California and Seoul, Korea, emerged from stealth to introduce its new AI ...
Samsung Electro-Mechanics partners with AMD for substrates
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) has announced a collaboration with AMD to supply high-performance substrates designed for hyperscale data center compute applications. ...
SKT Invests US$100 Million in Anthropic for Telco LLM
SKT is investing additional US$100 million in Anthropic, an AI safety and research company based in San Francisco and known ...
Samsung and MediaTek hit 363 Mbps uplink with 5G 3Tx antennas
Samsung Electronics and MediaTek achieved a peak throughput rate of 363 Mbps with 5G Standalone Uplink (UL) 2CC Carrier Aggregation ...
SKtelecom advances quantum cryptography networks
SK Telecom is developing quantum cryptography networking by integrating equipment from different manufacturers via software-defined networking (SDN) and distributing quantum ...
SK Telecom inspects cell towers using drones + image analysis AI
SK Telecom is using drone and image analysis AI to perform safety checks of its mobile towers. Developed by SKT’s ...
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