‘Samsung Chairman Lee Gave Me Pocket Money’: Barista’s Viral Post Brews a Buzz

‘Samsung Chairman Lee gave me pocket money’: barista’s viral post brews a buzz

A barista’s online post about giving a cup of coffee to Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju and receiving 50,000 won (about 36 dollars) in return has gone viral, drawing hundreds of thousands of views in less than a day. The employee, who worked at an Ediya Coffee shop inside Hanwha Resort during the summit, wrote on social media Saturday, “I’ve had many special experie…

Samsung Building Facility With 50,000 Nvidia GPUs To Automate Chip Manufacturing

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Korean semiconductor giant Samsung said Thursday that it plans to buy and deploy a cluster of 50,000 Nvidia graphics processing units to improve its chip manufacturing for mobile devices and robots. The 50,000 Nvidia GPUs will be used to create a facili...

Samsung and Nvidia Partner to Build AI Megafactory

In collaboration with US chipmaker Nvidia, Samsung has revealed plans to build a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) "megafactory". Focus Taiwan reported on the venture, which was unveiled on 31 October and intends to incorporate AI into Samsung's whole semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.Samsung claims that the platform, which will run on over 50,000 Nvidia GPUs, would function as an "intelligent manufacturing platform" that can anal…