DeepX and Seoul National University to Develop 'On-Device AI Semiconductor' Evaluation Platform

Development of AI Semiconductor Educational Textbooks and Curriculums

DeepX, an artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company, announced on the 8th that it recently signed an industry-academia cooperation agreement with the Graduate School of AI Semiconductor at Seoul National University to enhance the competitiveness of South Korea's AI semiconductor industry. The related agreement ceremony was attended by Kim Nok-won, CEO of DeepX, and Lee Hyuk-jae, head of the Graduate School of AI Semiconductor at Seoul National University, among others.

Lee Hyuk-jae, Director of the AI Semiconductor Graduate School Project Group at Seoul National University (sixth from the left), and Kim Nok-won, CEO of DeepX (eighth from the left), are taking a commemorative photo with officials from the AI Semiconductor Graduate School. / Photo by DeepX

The Graduate School of AI Semiconductor at Seoul National University was established to train master's and doctoral-level talents with design and software capabilities in the AI semiconductor field and to conduct research on domestically produced AI semiconductors. DeepX partnered with this graduate school to address the lack of reference standards for evaluating on-device AI semiconductors in various on-device AI (AI running inside devices) application fields.

The Graduate School of AI Semiconductor at Seoul National University will develop a quality performance evaluation testing platform technology that provides edge AI semiconductor evaluation by receiving the latest AI algorithms and evaluation-related technologies and information obtained through DeepX's cooperation with over 100 global companies. DeepX explained that this platform is expected to encourage innovation in AI semiconductor technology and promote technology commercialization.

DeepX and Seoul National University also plan to produce educational textbooks and hardware and software development kits related to on-device AI semiconductors. They will also develop an AI semiconductor education curriculum. Subsequently, they plan to apply this to various domestic universities and strive to utilize it in overseas university education programs in the future.

CEO Kim Nok-won said, "In the past, educational textbooks and development kits related to central processing units (CPU) and graphics processing units (GPU) were entirely dependent on foreign products, but through this cooperation, we have laid the foundation to develop and globally expand an education course based on neural processing units (NPU) domestically, which is meaningful," adding, "We will strive to ensure that South Korea's technology leads the standards for AI semiconductors."

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