Samsung Electronics Forms Strategic Partnership With Mistral AI to Build Semiconductor-Specific AI
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Samsung Electronics said on the 8th that it had formed a strategic partnership with French AI company Mistral AI.
The collaboration was timed to coincide with the Korea-France summit, and it involves combining semiconductor technology and manufacturing data from Samsung Electronics' DS division with Mistral AI's high-efficiency AI model technology to build a semiconductor-specific AI model.
Samsung Electronics plans to use an On-Premises AI platform and its own infrastructure to apply AI without transferring design and manufacturing data outside, and to expand the effort across the DS division, including memory, foundry and logic.
Samsung Electronics has signed a strategic partnership with French AI company Mistral AI. In an announcement on the 8th, Samsung Electronics said it had formed a strategic cooperation relationship with Mistral AI. The timing of the collaboration was aligned with the Korea-France summit.
Through this collaboration, Samsung Electronics plans to combine semiconductor technology and manufacturing data from its DS division with Mistral AI's high-efficiency AI model technology. Based on this, Samsung Electronics will push to build its own AI model specialized for semiconductor design and manufacturing.
The joint development target is a semiconductor-specific AI model optimized for the DS division's proprietary data. Samsung Electronics aims to analyze the vast amount of data accumulated at semiconductor design and manufacturing sites, and plans to link the results of that analysis to actual improvements in productivity and quality.
Samsung Electronics is also planning to build a customized AI system. In this process, it will use AI solutions including Mistral AI's LLM, Mistral Large. The development targets also include an in-house AI model that optimizes DS division operations.
The areas where AI is being used are expanding to data analysis, defect prediction and process optimization. Data accumulated in semiconductor design and manufacturing is being used for AI analysis, and AI is being used to identify potential defects in advance and optimize process conditions.
Samsung Electronics plans to apply this AI use to the field in stages. Through this, it aims to shorten semiconductor development cycles, improve manufacturing efficiency and enhance product quality.
A key point of this collaboration is that it is based on an On-Premises AI platform. Samsung Electronics and Mistral AI are pursuing cooperation to build AI models, an AI platform specialized for semiconductor work, and an operating system.
The On-Premises method operates AI models on a company's own internal infrastructure, such as its own servers and data centers, without using external cloud services. Samsung Electronics plans to use AI without transferring core technical data generated during semiconductor design and manufacturing processes to the outside.
In the semiconductor industry, design information and process data are regarded as core corporate strengths, and data security is seen as an important precondition for AI adoption. For this reason, Samsung Electronics is pushing ahead with AI operations based on its own infrastructure. The purpose of operating its own infrastructure is to secure security, and the company expects this to allow large-scale internal data to be used for AI training as well as work automation.
Mistral AI is a French AI company founded with the leading role of Arthur Mensch, CEO, and with participation from AI researchers who previously worked at Google DeepMind and Meta. The company targets sectors including finance, manufacturing and energy, industries that share the common trait that data security is important. Mistral AI has technology for building customized AI models tailored to On-Premises environments.
Samsung Electronics plans to expand the scope of this collaboration across the DS division, including memory, foundry and logic. It also aims to go beyond applying AI to specific work units, instead integrating AI across semiconductor design and manufacturing and building an AI-based semiconductor ecosystem that connects customers and partners as well.
Jeon Young-hyun, head of Samsung Electronics' DS division, said that as the complexity of semiconductor design and manufacturing is increasing rapidly, AI capabilities for the safe and sophisticated use of massive amounts of data are becoming a key competitive advantage. He explained that, on this basis, Samsung Electronics plans to work with Mistral AI to build AI models and platforms specialized for the semiconductor industry, with the goal of setting a new standard for AI-based semiconductor innovation.
Arthur Mensch, founder and CEO of Mistral AI, said that AI is redefining how advanced technologies are created, from semiconductors to software. He then said he welcomed cooperation with Samsung Electronics based on Mistral AI's semiconductor capabilities.
Samsung Electronics has made a large equity investment to strengthen its strategic partnership with Mistral AI. Through this, Samsung Electronics and Mistral AI have laid the groundwork for long-term technology cooperation and joint business initiatives, and they plan to accelerate AI transformation across all business areas, including semiconductors, and strengthen their competitiveness in the global AI semiconductor market through this partnership.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406721
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