Jaihyuk Song - Samsung Electronics

Corporate President & CTO - Samsung Electronics

Semiconductor innovations for a sustainable future
Historically, at the heart of many innovations has been the technology to record and disseminate data. Today, with semiconductors, humanity has made remarkable advances in data technology, and with these advances, we live in an innovative digital transformation era with no boundaries between online and offline based on massive data and hyper connectivity.

Semiconductors at the center of this innovation can perform all the core functions of the human brain: storing, processing, and propagating data through connections. As a result, the role of semiconductors in the future society is becoming more and more important.

However, semiconductor development is becoming extremely difficult. Traditional litho-based chip scaling is reaching its limit, memory bandwidth is not keeping up with processor performance, and high-performance chips are suffering from various problems such as power supply and heat generation. These problems are increasing the cost and time required to develop state-of-the-art chips, and making it difficult to develop high-performance devices needed in the digital transformation era.

 In order to solve these problems, the entire semiconductor ecosystem, including Samsung, is constantly studying new technologies that can extend Moore's Law and is striving to overcome limitations and create technologies that are nonexistent in the world by discovering new structures of devices and new materials.

 In addition to overcoming technical limitations, solving the new problems we face is something that every partners in the semiconductor ecosystem must collaborate on. In order to solve social problems such as technology competition between countries, environmental issues, and manpower shortages, we will have to cooperate as never before.