Establishing 'Digital Twin Center' to Lead AI Factory Appointing Vice President Hwang Sang-jun to Oversee Memory Development
On the 22nd, visitors at the 27th Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX 2025) held at COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, are observing the HBM4 at the Samsung Electronics booth. Hosted by the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association until the 24th, this event is the largest semiconductor exhibition in the country, featuring all areas of the semiconductor industry ecosystem, including memory semiconductors, system semiconductors, equipment and components, materials, facilities, and sensors. 2025.10.22/News1
Samsung Electronics has appointed a general manager responsible for memory semiconductor development. A 'Digital Twin Center' has also been established to lead the construction of a semiconductor artificial intelligence (AI) factory.
On the 27th, Samsung Electronics announced the establishment of a 'Memory Development Department' within the Device Solutions (DS) division, encompassing memory semiconductors such as DRAM and NAND flash. Hwang Sang-jun, currently the head of the DRAM Development Office, has been appointed as the head. Vice President Hwang has led the development of DRAM, including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).
The HBM Development Team, established in July last year, has been reorganized into a design team under the DRAM Development Office after about a year. Vice President Son Young-soo, who previously led the HBM Development Team, has been appointed as the head of the design team.
A 'Digital Twin Center' has also been newly created under the global manufacturing infrastructure general manager of the DS division. Digital twin technology is a virtual replication that implements real-world objects, systems, and processes in a digital space.
This is interpreted as a preliminary step for the semiconductor AI factory strategy. Previously, Samsung Electronics announced plans to collaborate on building a semiconductor AI factory by introducing 50,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA.
Lee Dong-hoon
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