Due to the recent restrictions in Japanese export of key material followed by a removal from the ‘white-list’, Korea’s central industry, the semiconductor and display field in particular, is expecting a serious blow.
SNU ECE Professor Kiyoung Choi (64, photograph), the Minister nominee of Science and ICT, is an expert in intelligent semiconductors. His nomination reflects the increasing importance of domestic R&D in semiconductors due to Japan’s regulations on semiconductor material export.
The research team of prof. Seungyong Han of SNU, in cooperation with National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) of the United States, achieved a new world record for the direct current magnetic field using ‘no-insulation high-temperature superconductive magnets.’
''Imagine we have to leave a ‘decimated’ Earth as in the movie ‘Interstellar’. Each nation in the world is about to leave with its citizens. What if there are only tens of people capable of steering the spacecrafts?''
The title of ‘SNU’, the top university in Korea, and 3 billion won are both no good when it comes to attracting AI talents. SNU Big Data Institute Director Sang Kyun Cha has repeatedly undertaken business trips to search for new faculty for SNU’s AI section.
SNU ECE Emeritus Prof. Young-June Park who took office as the first chairman of the ‘Intelligent Semiconductor Forum(지능형 반도체 포럼)’ on the 24th said that constructing the ecosystem is of the utmost importance for development in intelligent semiconductors.