Overview
- AMD CEO Lisa Su and Upstage CEO Sung Kim announced an expanded collaboration in Seoul focused on next‑generation AI development and Korea’s sovereign AI effort.
- Upstage plans a multiphase deployment of AMD Instinct MI355 accelerators over the next year to boost its large language models and document‑processing engines using the ROCm open software stack.
- The effort supports the state‑led foundation‑model project, with Upstage now in the second round alongside SK Telecom and LG AI Research.
- Kim said he asked AMD to prioritize GPU deliveries for Korea and to invest locally, adding that Su indicated such prioritization was possible, though no formal supply guarantee was announced.
- Separately, AMD deepened ties with Samsung, which announced an HBM supply agreement and an MOU designating it a preferred HBM4 supplier for AMD’s forthcoming Instinct MI455X, as Su also met Korean government officials to discuss AI cooperation.