Committed to overcoming challenges in AI era: Samsung’s chip division boss

Samsung Electronics’ new head of its chip division has called on staff to work together to regain the company’s status as a top semiconductor company, adding he is committed to overcoming challenges in an age of artificial intelligence.

The South Korean tech giant has fallen behind rivals SK Hynix and Micron Technology in high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips which are in high demand for use in AI processors.

Citing a “chip crisis”, it replaced its semiconductor chief this month with Young Hyun Jun, who led Samsung’s memory chip business from 2014 to 2017 after working on the development of DRAM and flash memory chips.