Samsung Electronics announced on Tuesday that it has received an order from Japanese artificial intelligence company Preferred Networks to produce chips for AI applications using its advanced 2-nanometre foundry process and sophisticated chip packaging service. This marks the first publicly disclosed order for Samsung’s state-of-the-art 2-nanometre chip contract manufacturing process. The company did not provide details on the order’s size.
The chips will be manufactured using gate-all-around (GAA) technology, a high-tech chip architecture, and multiple chips will be integrated into a single package to enhance inter-connection speed and reduce size, according to Samsung’s statement. South Korea’s Gaonchips Co designed the chips.
These chips will be used in Preferred Networks’ high-performance computing hardware for generative AI technologies, including large language models, said Junichiro Makino, Preferred Networks’ vice president and chief technology officer of computing architecture, in the statement.
