Signal South Korea, AMD sign MOU for AI Center of Excellence

Summary

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT signed a memorandum of understanding with AMD. Under the agreement, the two sides will work to establish an 'AI Center of Excellence' in Korea. The partnership's goal is to build an open, heterogeneous computing infrastructure that combines AMD's CPUs and GPUs with domestically produced Korean neural processing units. The underlying idea is that combining these different classes of processors into one system can lower the cost of generative AI computation and improve computing efficiency. The move can be read as an attempt by the Korean government to widen the use of domestic NPUs through partnership with an overseas semiconductor company.