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AI & Enterprise
Groundbreaking held for national AI computing center in Haenam, aims for 2028 completion
South Korea has broken ground on its national AI computing center in Solarsido, Haenam, and begun full-scale construction, the Ministry of Science and ICT said on Sunday. The project will be built as a public-private joint venture combining public investment with private capital and data center operating capabilities. A Samsung SDS-led consortium was selected as the final operator and established a joint venture, KOACC. Some computing resources will be deployed next year ahead of completion in 2028.
Industry
Samsung Electronics to reshape future industry portfolio with region-specific clusters
Samsung plans to reorganise its future industry portfolio into four regional clusters, centred on a Seoul metropolitan semiconductor hub and additional bases in Honam, Chungcheong and Yeongnam. The company said it will invest a total of 2,655 trillion won domestically to foster cutting-edge future industries. Spending includes 2,030 trillion won for the capital region’s chip cluster and 625 trillion won for AI semiconductors, robots, batteries and IT components and materials in other regions.
AI & Enterprise
Sovereign AI, building a domestic NPU ecosystem and opportunities for regions
An October announcement that Nvidia would supply 260,000 GPUs to South Korea was seen as a diplomatic gain, but most supply is concentrated among large companies. About 20 percent is available for academia, research institutes and startups, with the government leasing capacity from cloud firms. The author argues AI demand is shifting toward low-latency inference, where domestic NPUs could be deployed, but cheap large-scale GPU supply could crowd them out. He calls for regional distributed inference hubs using idle public assets and local demand aggregation.
