AMD's Lisa Su met 13 Korean AI firms in Seoul to discuss pairing AMD CPUs and GPUs with local inference chips. So far the plan is talks and planned demonstrations, and AMD's firmer Korean ties from the same trip run through memory supply.
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Korea's science ministry is arranging an Oct. 8 meeting between AMD and five named AI chip startups, FuriosaAI and Rebellions among them. The plan is still unconfirmed, and the only money the reports show moving between AMD and Korea pays Samsung for memory.
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Korean export bank urges subsidies for buyers of home-grown AI chips
Export-Import Bank of Korea researchers want the government to subsidise buyers of Korean AI chips, citing an $860 billion market by 2030. The plan would pay customers to back FuriosaAI and Rebellions in a market Nvidia held 78.2% of last year.
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Wrtn hires Mirae Asset and NH to take its 1 trillion won August mark to public investors
The Korean AI service platform raised 100 billion won in August at a valuation above 1 trillion won, roughly 4.3 times all the money ever invested in it, and is targeting a preliminary review filing next year.
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One KOSDAQ IPO has raised more than a trillion won since the board opened in 1996
Celltrion Healthcare's 1.0088 trillion won in 2017 still stands alone, and Yanolja, Viva Republica and Galaxy Corporation are all pursuing US listings while KOSDAQ turnover runs at less than half January's.
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Stockholm's first phase takes 45% of every RNGD chip FuriosaAI has received
Korea's NPU makers have moved from domestic pilots to paid orders abroad. The sizes show the stage they are at: 1,800 chips in Stockholm's first phase, and 77 DEEPX purchase orders averaging about $169,000 each.
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Nvidia books Korea's entire $30m NPU export ledger in about three hours
Rebellions, FuriosaAI and Mobilint want Seoul to orchestrate domestic deployments they can quote to foreign buyers, which is a procurement request wearing industrial-policy clothes, arriving just as Korea made exporting the chips harder.
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- Evidence28
- Adoption27
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives68
- Confidence34