Samsung Electronics receives order for next-generation AI chips from Preferred Networks

SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday (9) it has received an order from Japanese artificial intelligence company Preferred Networks to manufacture chips for AI applications using the South Korean company’s 2-nanometer foundry process and the advanced chip packaging service.

It’s the first order Samsung has revealed for its next-generation 2-nanometer chip contract manufacturing process. Samsung did not provide details on the size of the order.

The chips will be manufactured using a high-tech chip architecture known as gate all-around (GAA) and multiple chips will be integrated into a package to increase interconnect speed and reduce size, Samsung said in a statement.

South Korea’s Gaonchips Co designed the chips, Samsung said.

The chips will go into Preferred Networks’ high-performance computing hardware for generative AI technologies such as large language models, Preferred Networks vice president and chief technology officer of computational architecture Junichiro Makino said in the statement.

(Reporting by Joyce Lee)