TNB Tech Minute: Samsung Will Spend Over $70 Billion in AI Chips Race
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:42.7 | Samsung says it plans to invest more than $70 billion this year in a push to dominate manufacturing artificial intelligence chips. The South Korean tech giant will funnel the funds |
| 0:47.8 | towards facilities and research and development, particularly in sectors like AI and advanced |
| 0:52.9 | robotics. It will also pursue merger and acquisition |
| 0:56.1 | deals in those fields, as well as in automotive electronics. The cash injection is part of Samsung's |
| 1:01.8 | bid to use its memory, foundry, and advanced packaging capacity to secure its leadership in the, |
| 1:07.1 | quote, AI semiconductor era. Electric Vehicle startup Riv, is jumping into the Robotaxi race, |
| 1:14.3 | with up to $1.25 billion in help from Uber. |
| 1:17.9 | In a new partnership, the two companies will deploy |
| 1:20.5 | 10,000 fully autonomous versions of the new Rivian R2 SUV by 2028. |
| 1:26.0 | The vehicles will first hit the streets in San Francisco and Miami, |
| 1:29.3 | and thousands more could come to dozens of cities in the U.S., Canada, and Europe by the end of |
| 1:34.1 | 2031. The ride-hailing Giants investment will come if Rivian wins regulatory approval and meets |
| 1:39.9 | milestones along the way. While Rivian is investing heavily in fully autonomous vehicles, |
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