Sam Altman meets about 50 Samsung executives as the memory chip shortage deepens
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met around 50 senior Samsung executives in Yongin, South Korea, to discuss AI and business opportunities over the coming decade, DCD reports, citing Bloomberg. The meeting follows his podcast remark that DRAM sitting in desktop computers for local inference is a poor use of the world's limited memory supply. OpenAI signed letters of intent with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix for memory supply in October 2025, and no further allocation details have been published (reported, not confirmed by the companies). Memory makers' latest results are on our TSMC vs SK hynix vs Micron page.
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