memory semiconductors

Bank of America has named South Korea the strongest country outside the United States and China to benefit from the next wave of artificial-intelligence investment. The assessment combines Korea’s position in memory semiconductors with indicators of domestic AI development, adoption, policy...

OpenAI research vice president Noam Brown told a Seoul AI symposium on July 3, 2026, that Korean memory semiconductors will become more important as frontier AI models spend longer at inference time to produce more accurate answers. The remark matters because it reframes the AI hardware race...