TapTechNews August 5th, according to the report of the South Korean media Seoul Economic Daily (Sedaily), the cooperative relationship of AI accelerator development between Samsung Electronics and the South Korean Internet giant Naver will essentially end after the launch of the Mach-1 chip.
After Mach-1, Samsung Electronics and Naver will part ways and independently develop AI accelerators and look for new partners.
Industry insiders told the South Korean media that Naver has put a lot of effort into the development and design of Mach-1. The architecture design of this AI inference chip is closely related to Naver's business. It is difficult for non-Naver customers to fully exert the potential of the Mach-1 chip.
And Samsung Electronics needs to build a highly usable AI computing power chip as soon as possible to win more orders from downstream customers and gain market advantages as early as possible.
In other words, both sides have different considerations for the post-Mach-1 AI chip development, and it is reasonable to choose to split up.
Based on TapTechNews' previous reports, the Mach-1 chip focuses on high energy efficiency and low off-chip cache bottlenecks. It uses LPDDR memory and is expected to enter mass production in the second half of this year and deliver inference servers based on this chip in the first quarter of next year.