A senior executive of Intel Corp. said Wednesday the U.S. chip giant will expand cooperation with Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled personal computers.
“Samsung and LG are very important device partners,” Justin Hotard, an executive vice president of Intel’s Data Center and AI Group, told reporters in Seoul.
Hotard said Samsung and LG have “incredible innovations” in screen and memory technologies important in AI-enabled personal computers, which are expected to take up 80 percent of the global PC market by 2028.
Hotard said Intel aims to build a more “open ecosystem” for the AI chip industry, which is practically monopolized by U.S. AI chip giant Nvidia.
“We have a fundamental view that open ecosystems enable better competition and better competition enables innovation,” Hotard said.
Ha Jung-woo, head of Naver Cloud Corp.’s Innovation Center who joined a meeting with Hotard, said the company will work to challenge Nvidia’s monopoly in the AI chip m
arket with its collaboration with Intel.
“There’s a need to change the status quo where a certain AI chip product is effectively monopolizing the market … to make the pie bigger and create more opportunities,” Ha said.
Source: Yonhap News Agency
