Samsung Elec's chip chief says he discussed next-generation foundry with Nvidia CEO

SEOUL, June ‌8 (Reuters) - Samsung ​Electronics' ​co-CEO and head of its chip division, ‌Jun Young-hyun, said on Monday he ⁠discussed cooperation in next-generation foundry ‌chips with Nvidia CEO ‌Jensen Huang during a meeting in Seoul.

Jun said Samsung ​and Nvidia are currently collaborating on autonomous driving chips ⁠and Groq AI accelerator chips, and also ​discussed cooperation on future generations of semiconductor products. He added ​that the two ‌companies had extensive discussions on long-term cooperation, including ⁠in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) 4E and HBM5 chips.

In March, Huang unveiled ⁠Nvidia's new AI inference processor based ​on technology from chip startup Groq, adding that Samsung would manufacture Groq's ‌LP30 chips, which are scheduled to be shipped in ‌the second half of ⁠this year.

(Reporting ‌by Hyunjoo Jin, ​Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang; Editing by Emelia ‌Sithole-Matarise)

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