Samsung to make chips for China's Baidu in notable first partnership

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sammobile.com, Dec. 18, 2019 – 

Samsung makes chips for a lot of different companies like Qualcomm and Intel. It has never had such a partnership with Baidu before, the company that's often referred to as China's Google. However, it was announced today that Samsung will now be making chips for Baidu.

The Korean giant will be manufacturing Baidu's new cloud-to-edge artificial intelligence chip called Baidu KUNLUN. The development has been completed and the chip will enter mass production from early next year.

Samsung enters into first foundry partnership with Baidu

Baidu KUNLUN is going to be built on the Chinese company's own XPU neural processor architecture and fabricated on Samsung's 14nm process technology with the I-Cube package solution. This solution integrates a System-on-Chip and a High Bandwidth Memory on a silicon interposer to form one single package to increase electrical transference. What this means is that the overall chip will take up less space in devices.

"Baidu KUNLUN is an important milestone for Samsung Foundry as we're expanding our business area beyond mobile to datacenter applications by developing and mass-producing AI chips," said Ryan Lee, VP of Foundry Marketing at Samsung Electronics.

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