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Industry
Design houses move from outsourced chip design to AI chip architecture
Design house (DSP) companies that once focused on outsourced semiconductor design are expanding in both contract pricing and funding scale as AI chip mass production becomes harder with foundry steps alone after 2-nanometre nodes. With physical limits nearing, 2.5D and 3D stacking and chiplets are becoming key, making advanced packaging and interconnect new battlegrounds. Firms are shifting toward integrated design platforms and infrastructure architecture partnerships, alongside rising high-value project shares and larger financings.
Industry
SemiFive wins 18 billion won AI NPU design order
SemiFive said on March 13 it signed a turnkey contract to develop an AI neural processing unit based on Samsung Electronics\' 4-nanometre (SF4X) process. The contract is worth about 18 billion won ($12.5 million). The customer is an AI semiconductor fabless company, but its name was not disclosed. The NPU targets on-premise AI processing without network connections and is designed for real-time handling of large-scale data.
Finance
Meritz Securities invests 40 billion won in hydrogen specialist Mico Power
Meritz Securities said on Tuesday it invested 40 billion won in hydrogen fuel cell company Mico Power after forming a new technology business investment fund with new technology finance firm AFWP. It said the deal was its first venture capital investment of 2026 and targeted a key company in the hydrogen industry value chain. It also cited its new technology finance team’s cumulative assets under management of 868.5 billion won since February 2018.
