Why Samsung Is Falling Behind in the AI Race
For decades, the South Korean giant was the world's leading maker of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), a chip component that's in many of the electronics you own. Meanwhile, SK Hynix—also based in South Korea—teamed up with US-based Advanced Micro Devices to develop a more advanced version that, at the time, was a niche product suited primarily for video game hardware. But then AI came along, and everything changed. Those High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips suddenly became the hottest commodity, and Samsung was caught napping. In this Bloomberg Originals mini-documentary, we explain the scope of Samsung's challenges and what its success or failure in the HBM market may mean for South Korea as a whole.
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