Samsung Foundry’s Annual SAFE™ and Foundry Forum Event Strengthens Collaboration and Co-Creation

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Samsung Foundry hosted valued customers and partners on its campus in San Jose, California on Tuesday to discuss its Foundry strategy, solutions, and design partner ecosystem all centered around the theme: “Alliance for Smarter Silicon.” 

“As AI and HPC workloads grow more complex, one-size-fits-all architectures fall short,” said Paul Cho, President of Samsung Semiconductor, U.S. “That’s why Samsung Foundry, backed by deep memory expertise, is focused on delivering a customer-driven roadmap and a differentiated design approach to unlock performance, power efficiency, and time-to-market.”

The event featured presentations from industry leaders including Groq CEO Jonathan Ross, Synopsys Senior Vice President John Koeter, and Cadence Senior Vice President and General Manager Paul Cunningham, who discussed their deep collaboration with Samsung. Around 30 partner companies exhibited at booths, further highlighting collaboration across the US foundry ecosystem.

"The world’s fastest AI chip is coming from Groq and Samsung Foundry," said Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO of Groq. "We've achieved what’s nearly unheard of in this space: a chip that was first-time right. That chip isn’t a prototype, it’s going to product. Whether you’re building for robotics, automotive, or 5G and beyond, this is guaranteed performance, not theoretical."

Samsung also shared its technology roadmap and discussed its custom HBM platform with enhanced latency and power efficiency over standard offerings.