AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) continues to explore potential partnerships with Samsung Electronics (USOTC:SSNHZ) across memory supply and semiconductor manufacturing, Chief Executive Lisa Su said on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters during a visit to Seoul, Su said AMD was working with customers to manage memory requirements amid constrained supplies.
“We are working with our customers to optimise their memory footprint so that we can satisfy more computing going forward,” Su said.
Su said she had met executives from SK Hynix and planned to hold discussions with Samsung Electronics executives during the visit. She also said she was encouraging memory manufacturers to “build faster, as fast as possible.”
AMD Highlights Role of Korean Memory Suppliers
AMD relies on South Korean suppliers as it expands its data centre business, according to Su.
“I think we very much rely on the Korean supply chain,” she said, adding that Samsung and SK Hynix are “key for us to accomplish our broad ambition in data centres.”
Su said overall data centre demand remained high, with AMD seeing demand across its product portfolio.
AMD and Samsung signed a memorandum of understanding in March to expand their strategic partnership covering memory chip supplies for artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The companies also said at the time that they would discuss opportunities for a foundry partnership. Under such an arrangement, Samsung could provide contract semiconductor manufacturing services for future AMD products.
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