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SEMIFIVE Pulls Ahead in AI ASIC Market, Expanding Lead with Successive NPU Project Wins
SEMIFIVE, a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) solutions, announced today that it has signed a turnkey design contract worth KRW 18 billion (approximately USD 12.5 million) with an AI semiconductor fabless company. This contract marks a follow-on project with the customer and covers the development of a high-performance AI NPU based on Samsung Foundry's advanced 4nm (SF4X) process technology. The project will further strengthen SEMIFIVE's leadership in the rapidly growing
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