Samsung and AMD Announce Partnership for High-Performance CPUs and GPUs

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) has announced a new partnership with AMD, becoming the new supplier of high-performance substrates for the manufacturer’s upcoming GPUs and processors for the server market.

According to the release, the collaboration between the two has as its main objective to overcome the unique challenges of integrating multiple semiconductor chips on a single large-sized substrate.

It’s worth mentioning that the high-performance substrate Samsung will supply to AMD is essential for upcoming CPUs and GPUs – bringing a larger surface area and higher layer counts, thus achieving dense interconnects to meet the demand of advanced servers.

Compared to standard substrates for home computers, those seen in servers are ten times larger and have three times more layers – ensuring greater energy efficiency without losing the integrity of signals between chips.

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Samsung and AMD become partners

The partnership between Samsung Electro-Mechanics and AMD comes at a time when the South Korean company is investing heavily in this market. The corporation has injected 1.9 trillion KRW (South Korean currency) into its FCBGA factories – aiming to scale up substrate technology and manufacturing capabilities.

According to market information gathered by Prismark, semiconductor substrates will have an annual growth rate of 7% – today reaching 15.2 trillion KRW and reaching 20 trillion KRW by the year 2028.

Samsung is currently the market leader in embedded substrates, both for passive components (capacitors and inductors) and active components (integrated circuits).

Looking to the future of servers

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Executive Vice President of Strategic Marketing Center Kim Wontaek believes this new deal will boost both the server and AI markets.

We are honored to be a strategic partner of AMD, a global leader in high-performance computing and AI semiconductor solutions. Our continued investment in advanced substrate solutions will provide the essentials for consumers like AMD to meet the growing demands of servers and other compute-intensive applications such as AI and automotive systems.

Kim Wontaek

AMD’s vice president of strategic manufacturing operations, Scott Aylor, reinforces the company’s commitment to the market and bringing even more technology to its side.

At AMD, we are always pushing the boundaries of innovation to meet the performance and efficiency needs of our customers. Our leadership in chiplet technologies has enabled us to deliver industry-leading performance, efficiency and flexibility across our line of server CPUs and GPUs. Continued investments in partners like SEMCO underscore the work we have been doing to ensure we are working with advanced substrate technologies and our ability to advance future generations of high-performance computing and AI products.

Scott Aylor

Fonte: TweakTown