AMD and the Ministry of Science and ICT discussed plans to link domestic NPUs at the first steering commi

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT and AMD held the first steering committee meeting under their July memorandum of understanding in Seoul on December 4, discussing how to link AMD CPUs and GPUs with domestic neural processing units (NPUs) in a unified AI computing infrastructure. The agenda also covered establishing a domestic AI research center, university support, and AI workforce training. The meeting follows the July agreement and is meant to review progress and set execution plans for each task. It matters because pairing foreign accelerators with Korean NPUs could reduce reliance on single-vendor hardware and strengthen the local AI chip ecosystem. What to watch next is whether the two sides announce concrete infrastructure sites, investment figures, and timelines for the research center and talent programs.