According to foreign media news, Samsung’s foundry business unit has recently begun to use 14nm process technology to manufacture the first generation of Warboy chips for FuriosaAI, a fabless manufacturer focusing on artificial intelligence in South Korea. In addition, the second-generation Warboy will also be manufactured by Samsung using the 5nm process technology in the first half of next year. The chip is said to process ten times faster than a GPU, but at one-fifth the price and power consumption of a GPU.
The ChatGPT upsurge has driven the AI chip market to soar, and the development of AI has also promoted the development of the semiconductor field. Samsung currently accepts fewer fabless orders, but the company is very optimistic about the prospects of the AI chip field, and it is also focused on increasing its AI chip production capacity by substantially increasing infrastructure investment.
According to public information, the Samsung P4 production line is under construction in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, with the goal of starting operations early next year. It will spend 300 trillion won ($228 billion) to build the world's largest semiconductor cluster in Yeongnyeong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, by 2042. The company's Taylor City factory in Texas, USA, which will mass-produce 4nm chips, is also under construction and will be put into operation in 2024.