Revenue target of 200 billion won in the second quarter of this year
(Seoul = Yonhap Infomax) Reporter Yang Yong-bi = Artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor fabless company Soteria has started to verify the mass production of its flagship product ‘Artemis’, which it has been developing. For the first time as a domestic fabless company, it has gone beyond simple development and entered the stage of preparing for actual mass production.
According to the investment industry on the 14th, Soteria, a Korean fabless company, has completed the development of the HPC semiconductor ‘MIK-100’ through Samsung Foundry’s cutting-edge 4nm (nm) process and manufactured more than 100,000 prototype chipsets for mass production. It is the start of mass production of its flagship product ‘Artemis’ chip series.
At this stage, it is evaluated that it is already setting a new milestone in the Korean semiconductor industry by receiving prototype orders from overseas customers. Through this, it is leaping forward as a leading company with competitiveness in the global semiconductor market.
Soteria believes that the development of AI semiconductor low-power technology and export contracts will be a turning point in the expansion of the domestic fabless industry. Beyond development, actual mass production will be promoted in earnest.
Soteria has applied for and registered more than 30 semiconductor-related core patents in the design and manufacturing process of 4nm HPC MIK-100. The company has achieved the achievement of building its own Full Custom EDA system, DEF Genie.
In particular, the low-power technology, which is essential for AI semiconductors, has been implemented through original custom design and library recharacterization technology. Through this, mass production was secured.
So far, 96 sheets of 4nm 12-inch wafers have been tested and functional verification has been completed. Process optimization is also underway. In order to secure full-scale mass production, the company is preparing to supply additional wafers to customers.
It also gave the green light to large-scale export supply. It has won prototype supply contracts from GDA, a global data center company. As early as the second quarter of this year, the company plans to supply products to global data center customers such as ACME and GDA, aiming for sales of more than 200 billion won.
The company is also developing new solutions to maximize the data processing efficiency of NVIDIA’s AI-GPU infrastructure. It is a solution that can solve the problem of data bottle neck caused by the advancement of AI models and the faster growth of data capacity even with the introduction of high-end HBM. Soteria is preparing a solution called the Large Language Model Accelerator (LLMA).
This is a technology that can significantly reduce the cost of building AI service infrastructure using LLMs such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, which have recently been attracting attention in the AI semiconductor market. It is expected to be a solution that solves the problem of GPU memory shortage and maximizes the efficiency of computing power.
Engineering sample testing of the LLMA solution is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year. It has joined the global data center’s new expansion plan for AI inference infrastructure in advance and is discussing cooperation and supply plans.
Founded in 2018, Soteria has attracted an investment of about 38 billion won in the process of growth. In addition to Saneun Capital, Intervest, SBVA, Hana Ventures, KB Securities, Anda Asia Ventures, and Korea Credit Guarantee Fund, securities firms and institutional investors are listed as major shareholders.
“In 2022, Samsung Electronics’ foundry allocated a 4nm fab for the first time in Korea, and we have successfully completed development and are now in the final stage for mass production,” said a Soteria official.
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