Overview
- The industry ministry and Arm signed a memorandum of understanding to form a working group and pursue a semiconductor design institute tentatively called the Arm School.
- The initiative aims to train about 1,400 high-level chip design specialists to strengthen Korea’s system‑semiconductor and fabless capabilities.
- At the Seoul meeting, President Lee and Masayoshi Son endorsed recognizing access to AI as a basic right and discussed making AI available like a public utility.
- Son cautioned that artificial superintelligence could be 10,000 times smarter than humans and urged planning for coexistence, while urging expansions in data centers and energy supply.
- Separately, the presidential AI committee met Amazon’s David Zapolsky on AI and cloud investment, following AWS’s outlined plan to invest about $5 billion in Korean data centers by 2031.