Recent months have seen Intel abandon plans to build new R&D centers as the company is forced to cut costs amid falling revenues and rising costs of building new facilities and mastering new technical processes. It is all the more interesting to know that before the end of the year a new laboratory for certification of memory chips will begin its work in South Korea.
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This was reported at the beginning of the month by The Korea Herald, which emphasized that at the recent Intel Vision 2023 event in Taiwan, Intel management announced to partners that the company was ready to build six research laboratories in six countries – not only in South Korea, but also in USA, India, China, Mexico and Taiwan. The Korean laboratory will be located in Seoul and will bear the full name Advanced Data Center Development Lab, hinting at a focus on the server segment. This laboratory will start its work this year.
Intel’s partners in this area will be local memory manufacturers represented by Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. The lab will focus on certification of memory modules and chips for compatibility with Intel CPUs. The largest manufacturers of RAM are concentrated in South Korea, so the choice of a location for a new laboratory is absolutely justified and logical. Among the standards being studied by the lab for compatibility will be DDR5 and CXL. Both are beginning to find more and more widespread use in the server segment, so the launch of a specialized laboratory is planned by Intel in a very timely manner.
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