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Chips and compute

A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub.

MIT Technology Review AIResearch source·
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Samsung is building a large new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, to meet growing demand for the specialized memory chips stacked with GPUs that run generative AI models.

Why it matters: AI model performance depends on high-bandwidth memory packaged with GPUs, so expanding memory chip production addresses a key supply constraint for AI hardware.

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“Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor.”
MIT Technology Review AI, 20 Oct 2026, 09:00.

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