OpenAI, Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDS, Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries released a letter of intent (LOI) for their strategic partnership to accelerate advancements in global AI data center infrastructure and develop future technologies together in relevant fields.
This strategic collaboration will bring together the collective strengths and leadership of Samsung companies across semiconductors, data centers, shipbuilding, cloud services along with its maritime technologies.
The signing ceremony was attended by top dignitaries, Young Hyun Jun, Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung Electronics; Sung-an Choi, Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung Heavy Industries; Sechul Oh, President & CEO of Samsung C&T; and Junehee Lee, President & CEO of Samsung SDS at Samsung’s corporate headquarters in Seoul, Korea.
Samsung Electronics will partner with OpenAI as its strategic memory supplier, providing advanced semiconductor solutions to support OpenAI’s global Stargate initiative. With memory demand projected at up to 900,000 DRAM wafers per month, Samsung will meet that with its full range of high‑performance, energy‑efficient DRAM offerings.
As an overall semiconductor solutions provider, Samsung’s leading technologies span across memory, logic as well as foundry with a diverse product portfolio that supports the full AI workflow from training to inference.
The company also servers differentiated capabilities in advanced chip packaging as well as heterogeneous integration between memory and system semiconductors, enabling it to provide unique solutions for OpenAI.
Samsung SDS has entered into a potential partnership with OpenAI to jointly develop AI data centers and provide enterprise AI services.
Beginning with the landmark partnership with OpenAI, Samsung plans to fully support South Korea’s ambition to become one of the world’s top three AI nations and to unlock new opportunities in the AI sector.