South Korea to Develop 10 Edge AI Chips by 2030

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has unveiled a roadmap for its edge AI semiconductor development program. The project is worth 800.2 billion won, about 39.93 billion Chinese yuan, and aims to complete the development and testing of 10 AI chips by 2030.

The ten chips cover many fields. Three are for smart home appliances, and one each goes to self-driving, collaborative robots, humanoid robots, farm robots, and drones. The rest cover advanced chipmaking and extreme-use cases.

Under the plan, Samsung Electronics and other chip foundries will give local projects priority access to MPW test chip runs. IP firms will cut chip design costs in flexible ways, and chip customers will also join the R&D process.