Seoul, March 25 (QNA) - Samsung Electronics is gearing up to launch its own AI accelerator chip named (the Mach-1) in early 2025, the company announced at its 55th annual shareholders meeting.

Samsung's Mach-1 is an AI inference accelerator based on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and equipped with LPDDR memory, which makes it particularly suitable for edge computing applications.

Head of Samsung Electronics Device Solutions Division Kye Hyun Kyung said that the chip design had passed technological validation on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and that the physical finalization of the system-on-chip (SoC) is currently underway.

Kyung assured that the chip would be ready by the end of the year, allowing for the launch of an AI system powered by the Mach-1 chip early next year.

Samsung's Mach-1 is not designed to compete against high-performance AI processors such as the AWS Trainium or the Nvidia H100, but it will certainly compete against other inference-oriented solutions, including AWS Inferentia.

It is highly likely that Samsung will position its Mach-1 primarily for edge applications that require low power consumption, minimal dimensions, and low costs.

(QNA)