Samsung has announced that it will produce 2nm semiconductor chips and provide advanced packaging services for the Japanese artificial intelligence firm Preferred Networks. This clarifies the speculation since the beginning of 2024 about which company Samsung would produce its first 2nm chips for and who its initial customer would be. Here are the details:

Samsung is set to lead in 2nm chip technology

Samsung Foundry has secured its first customer for the production of 2nm chips. Preferred Networks is currently pursuing high computational power hardware for productive AI models, and they will utilize chips manufactured by Samsung Foundry. The chip design is being handled by GaonChips, a renowned semiconductor chip design firm.

Samsung will employ advanced 2.5D packaging technology called I-Cube S (Interposer-Cube S) for the 2nm chips. The renowned company previously became the world’s first to mass-produce 3nm chips.

In this context, Preferred Networks, a Japanese company specializing in advanced hardware and software for AI models, AI accelerators, and supercomputers, appears to have entered into a significant collaboration with Samsung.

The company’s solutions and products in the Asian market span various sectors such as education, entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. Additionally, the Japanese firm has achieved the top position in the Green500 list for supercomputers three times in the last five years.

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