
Executive Chairman, Samsung Electronics (Jay Y. Lee) South Korea
Centrist
Chaebol realpolitik: serve the sentence, take the pardon, clear the merger case, and bet the company on AI silicon with America.
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The AI era cannot be opened by the strength of any single company or country alone. If the strengths of both countries [US and Korea] are combined, we will be able to innovate faster, grow bigger and solve more difficult challenges. The way humanity works, thinks and lives is changing from the ground up.
Samsung announced a 22.8 trillion won ($16.5 billion) multiyear foundry contract (through 2033); Elon Musk confirmed Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab would make Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip.
Source: Reuters / Forbes ↗South Korea's Supreme Court upheld lower-court dismissal of all accounting-fraud and stock-manipulation charges over the 2015 Samsung C&T–Cheil Industries merger, permanently clearing a decade-long legal risk.
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