CEO Of Intel Meet Again With Samsung Boss In Korea, What's Going On?

Samsung and Intel will work together. (photo: dock. samsung)

JAKARTA - Due to the sluggishness of the global economy, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger reportedly met again last week with Samsung executives in South Korea, to discuss a semiconductor strategy.

Arriving in Korea from Taiwan, Gelsinger visited the Hwaseong and Suwon Samsung Electronics Campus to meet with executives including the President of the Apparatus Solutions Division (DS), Kyung Kye-hyun and the President of the Department of the Device Experience Network (DX), Kim Woo-joon on December 9.

During the meeting, it was claimed that there would be cooperation in the semiconductor sector. In addition, they also talked about how to overcome the sluggishness of the global economy.

The meeting was Gelsinger's second visit to Korea this year, after the first in May. During his first visit to Korea, Gelsinger met with Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong to discuss cooperation in future generations of memory, system semiconductors, castings, PCs, and mobile devices.

However, this time Gelsinger did not meet Jae-yong because he had just returned from a business trip to United Arab Emirates (UAE) that day.

Samsung and Intel are the top companies in the global semiconductor industry, as they are the number one players in the memory semiconductor sector and central processing unit (CPU), respectively.

Launching Business Korea, Tuesday, December 13, despite competing, they often work together in the global semiconductor market. Intel mostly produces chips for itself, Samsung also produces semiconductors for others, including Nvidia, which is Intel's rival.

It's not clear how Samsung and Intel will work together, but the collaboration between the two companies is certainly very interesting.