SK Hynix to Partner with Qualcomm on AI Chips

SK Hynix to Partner with Qualcomm on AI Chips
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SK Hynix plans to jointly invest with sister company SK Telecom and Qualcomm to develop energy-efficient AI chips. Vice-chairman and CEO Park Jung-ho said he will discuss the matter with Qualcomm and was keen to establish a lead in a market where some 500 companies are producing AI chips.

SK Hynix and SKT joined with other affiliates to showcase green ICT technology at CES 2022. SKT unveiled its latest in-house developed low-power Sapeon AI chip. It explained the silicon is designed to process AI applications faster, using less power by efficiently processing large amounts of data in parallel.

SKT claims that the new chip uses 20 percent less power than a standard GPU and processes data 1.5-times faster. The Sapeon chips are produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.