SK Telecom – Spress https://en.spress.net Spress is a general newspaper in English which is updated 24 hours a day. Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:39:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 191965906 Korean technology companies strengthen cooperation in the semiconductor field https://en.spress.net/korean-technology-companies-strengthen-cooperation-in-the-semiconductor-field/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:39:07 +0000 https://en.spress.net/korean-technology-companies-strengthen-cooperation-in-the-semiconductor-field/ The companies will also collaborate on chip development, as well as pursue plans to establish a semiconductor test environment at an AI industry complex in Gwangju, 329 kilometers south of Seoul.

Illustration (Source: Chinadaily) South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Information Technology and Communications said on June 1 that many cloud data center operators have cooperated with companies specializing in chips used in Korean servers to meet the respond to the increase in demand for semiconductor products and respond to uncertainties in the global supply chain. The ministry said five data center companies, Naver Cloud, Douzone Bizon, Kakao Enterprise, NHN and KT, along with the Artificial Intelligence Industry Cluster Agency, signed a memorandum of understanding with Korean server chip companies SK Telecom, Rebellions, FuriosaAI, and Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute to expand the use of products Semiconductor domestically produced artificial intelligence (AI) in data centers. Demand for AI semiconductor products from data center operators has been increasing in recent times. These companies need chips to process large volumes of data efficiently. Ministry of Science and Technology Information – Korean media predicts that the global server AI chip market will grow from $3.5 billion in 2020 to $34.7 billion in 2030. Under the aforementioned agreement, the companies will also cooperate on chip development, as well as pursue plans to establish a semiconductor test environment at an AI industry complex in Gwangju, 329 kilometers south of Seoul. The ministry said it would support the cooperation plan of the company and hope that this agreement will boost the semiconductor industry of Korea in the context of a recent global supply shortage.

]]> 20665 2G network will be ‘wiped out’ by South Korea https://en.spress.net/2g-network-will-be-wiped-out-by-south-korea/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 02:41:06 +0000 https://en.spress.net/2g-network-will-be-wiped-out-by-south-korea/ After 25 years of operation, the 2G mobile network will officially be stopped by Korea at the end of June 2021.
On May 29, information released by the Korean Ministry of Information Technology said that LG Uplus – the last telecommunications company in the country still using 2G networks will proceed to disconnect 2G network services on May 29. At the end of June this year, this will mark the end of the 2G network in the country.

2G network will be “wiped out” by Korea Previously, in July last year, SK Telecom officially stopped providing 2G network service, while another Korean mobile operator, KT Telecom, stopped providing 2G network service since 2012. due to the rapid development of advanced mobile network generations and the significant decrease in the number of 2G network users. 2G mobile service started operating in Korea in 1996 based on the world’s first commercial code-shared multiple access network built by SK Telecom. The number of 2G subscribers nationwide surpassed 20 million in 2006 but began to decline after the country commercialized 3G and 4G networks in 2003 and 2011, respectively. It is known that by the end of March 2021, the number of 5G mobile network subscribers in Korea has reached 14.48 million, accounting for 20% of the total 71.1 million mobile subscribers, according to data from the Ministry of Information Technology. trust this country.

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