Sam Altman Meets 50 Samsung Presidents to Deepen AI Chip, HBM Ties

| Summary | Save A A A Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, meets with Samsung's presidents at the Samsung Human Resources Development Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, on the 31st. Samsung OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman visited South Korea for the first time in about a year and met with Samsung's presidents to discuss cooperation in artificial intelligence. Samsung invited Altman to a roundtable with its presidents on Oct. 31 at the Samsung Human Resources Development Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, industry sources said on the 1st. The event, held under the theme "The Next Decade AI Will Change: Choices for Companies," drew about 50 presidents from Samsung Electronics (005930) and major affiliates in finance and biotechnology. Participants reviewed how AI will affect corporate decision-making and organizational management, and discussed the capabilities and response strategies executives need in a rapidly changing business environment. At the roundtable, Altman presented Samsung's presidents with Codex Micro, OpenAI's compact keyboard designed for AI use. "Simply adopting AI makes it difficult to secure a sustainable competitive advantage," he said. "Competitive advantage depends on how you use AI to move faster, build better products and get ahead of competitors." Richard Ho, OpenAI's vice president in charge of in-house AI chip development, accompanied Altman on the trip. That has prompted speculation that Samsung and OpenAI will cooperate on developing next-generation AI accelerators. Kim Kyung-hoon, head of OpenAI Korea, said in September that "cooperation between Samsung and OpenAI is most concrete in memory supply, while foundry, or contract chip manufacturing, is still in the realm of possibility." Samsung Electronics is seen as a company able to cooperate broadly on OpenAI's AI chip development. OpenAI's in-house AI accelerator, Jalapeño, is expected to carry Samsung Electronics' next-generation high-bandwidth memory, HBM4, according to industry sources. In July, Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding with Broadcom to pursue cooperation worth $200 billion, or about 267 trillion won, in memory and foundry through 2030. Because Broadcom is OpenAI's partner in AI chip development, Samsung Electronics' business opportunities could expand into foundry and packaging. Samsung said participants "examined the direction of AI technology development and its potential applications, and exchanged views on the markets and business opportunities that will emerge from them." # SamAltman # OpenAI # SamsungElectronics # HBM4 # AIChips # Foundry Companies in this story Samsung Electronics 005930.KS · Semiconductor AI KEY Company Analysis → Original reporting by Koo Kyung-woo for Seoul Economic Daily. AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording. View Korean original ↗ Translation Policy Watch · Seoul Economic Daily More → 1:21 Samsung Posts 107 Trillion Won Quarterly ProfitSmartphones and Home Appliances Still in the Red 1:21 Most Read This Week 1 - 5 ‹ › 1 Japan to Urge Citizens to Stockpile Three Days of Food, Water 2 Korea Launches Joint Probe Into Douzone Bizon Hacking 3 Lotte Opens First Seoul Mall in 15 Years, Drawing Early Crowds 4 Airbnb Bars Hosts From Demanding Heavy Cleaning as Korea Debates Checkout Manners 5 Seoul to Build Linear Park Three Times Size of Gwanghwamun Plaza on Gukhoe-daero ← Back to Home