Samsung leader visits research center to discuss 6G and AI

Third straight visits in new year

2021-01-06     yoo tai young
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Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that company vice chairman Lee Jae-yong held an executive meeting to discuss strategies in 6G and artificial intelligence (AI).

Lee was updated on Samsung’s progress in next-generation telecommunication research, server technology and AI application to products at office of Samsung Research, the company’s research unit, in Seoul.

Company’s consumer electronics CEO HS Kim and mobile CEO DJ Koh as well as Samsung Research director Sebastian Seung took part in the meeting, Samsung said.

Lee said securing future technology was a matter of survival, according to Samsung. The vice chairman asked those in attendance to read the changes happening around them to control the future, the company said.

On Monday, the vice chairman visited the company’s Pyeongtaek chip plant. On Tuesday, he visited the company’s network equipment production line at Suwon as well as its Global Technology Center.