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South Korea Commits $1.3 Trillion Over 10 Years to Compete in AI Chip Race with Terafab

Discussion of Korea's massive national investment in semiconductors framed explicitly as a response to compete with Terafab-scale AI compute ambitions.

Key facts

  • Korea seen as mounting large-scale counter to Terafab
  • Questions raised on timing and necessity of terawatt-scale compute
  • Analogy to historical overbuild of power infrastructure
韩国十年投入 1.3 万亿美元, 真是大手笔. 这是要和 TeraFab 竞争啊.
— @chaojidigua

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