Jul 27, 2026
positiveAMD Signs Korea AI Center MOU at Advancing AI 2026 — Open ROCm Ecosystem to Challenge Nvidia's CUDA Lock-In in Asia
AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT during the AMD Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco, establishing an AI Center of Excellence in Korea. The agreement targets a heterogeneous AI computing infrastructure combining AMD CPUs, GPUs, and Korean neural processing units, and aims to connect Korean chipmakers, universities, and research institutions to AMD's open-source ROCm software platform as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem.