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Solomon’s Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines

We are entering the Cognitive Era in which decisions will increasingly be made by humans and machines in concert, each – ostensibly – relying on their specific strengths.
Blog

Samsung Forum: Three Talks for Entrepreneurs

The Samsung Forum is a weekly speaker series hosted by Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center. If you’re an entrepreneur, here are three talks we specifically recommend that you should check out.
Samsung Forum

Computer Vision and Therapy for Children with Autism

Children with Autism struggle to identify social cues in people's faces. Catalin Voss developed a machine learning system that uses wearable glasses to recognize facial expressions and provides real-time therapy for children with autism.
Blog

Samsung Catalyst Fund: The Sherpa for Your Startup Journey

Samsung Catalyst Fund was founded to help entrepreneurs and innovative startups with world-improving technologies to reach the summit of their goals.
Blog

Samsung Recognized as Champion of Young Companies in Europe

Samsung Electronics was honored in Brussels at an official ceremony with EU Vice President Katainen as the company “most active in open innovation” by the European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) initiative.
Samsung Forum

RISC-V and the CPU Revolution

Dr. Yunsup Lee presents today's chip design economics, introduces the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture, and describes how RISC-V, open source hardware, and SiFive are changing chip design strategies.
Young Sohn Keynote

Artificial Intelligence, Innovation & the Future

In his keynote speech at Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, Young Sohn, President and CSO of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of HARMAN International industries, outlined the huge opportunities that AI presents for global entrepreneurs.
Video

Promises and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence

What’s real in artificial intelligence? What are the most promising AI investment areas—and the biggest challenges? Watch this wide-ranging conversation at Web Summit 2018 with Samsung CTO, Luc Julia.
Recap

Samsung CEO Summit 2018: A Better World With AI

For 2018, the topic of the Samsung CEO Summit was artificial intelligence. In the past few years, we’ve seen incredible advances in AI. This year’s speakers and guests explored AI’s tremendous potential for change.
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Versal: New Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms

Versal is a brand new 7nm SoC family from Xilinx. This talk covers the overall system architecture for devices which includes the ARM cores, programmable logic, and vector processor cores.
Samsung Forum

Safety; The (Im)possible Challenge for Automated Driving?

Safety is and will remain the most critical challenge for making automated driving a realty. Jan Radke from TTTech discusses how the automotive industry defines safety...
Samsung Forum

Smashing Atoms and Processing Massive Results at CERN

CERN, the home of Large Hadron Collider, is actively managing 700PB of data, has designed the data analytics platform for it, and...
Samsung Forum

Graphcore: A Processor for Machine Intelligence

Nigel Toon co-founder and CEO at Graphcore talks about how Machine Learning represents a new workload for computers.
Samsung Forum

5G Wireless – What Is It Really For?

Joe Madden covers the economics of 5G and key business case analysis to show which applications will really drive the investment in 5G and its eventual use.
Samsung Forum

San Jose’s Vision for a Smart City

From the deployment of broadband to autonomous vehicles to the proliferation of Internet of Things sensors and beyond, an array of technology-based innovations is leading to dramatic changes in cities.
Samsung Forum

Ending Slavery and Forced Labor in our Lifetime

There are more people enslaved today than at any other time in human history. Slavery is just as brutal as ever, and it's also more stoppable than ever.
Investments

Mantis Vision
Reinventing 3D

We're excited to renew our long-term commitment to Mantis Vision with participation in a new investment round. Learn how Mantis Vision does 3D differently.
Investments

Mapillary:
Reinventing maps

The future of mapping isn’t about improving navigation. It’s about creating a searchable, digital version of the earth.

Locations


Menlo Park,
CA, USA

Settled in the Palo Alto foothills next to Stanford University, our Menlo Park office boasts beautiful views and an open atmosphere, and is the center of SSIC's investment and corporate strategy activity.


San Jose,
CA, USA

Opened in 2015, the Samsung Device Solutions America campus, known as "Samsung@First," is home to Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center.


Paris,
France

Historic Le Centorial is home to SSIC's initiatives in Europe, with a focus on VC investments and M&A, as well as cutting-edge developments in AI, especially in the area of automated mobility.

Samsung Forum

All Talks
Dec 06, 2018 | Speaker: Stephen Bates

Dumbing Down the CPU: Accelerating IO with Smart PCIe Devices

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Nov 27, 2018 | Speaker: Chris Cowart

Exponential Thinking: A Perspective From Inside Singularity University

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Innovation Areas

Artificial Intelligence

We see the future of AI as multimodal, taking advantage of the current explosion of diverse data to create unimaginably broad and beneficial tools for the global good.

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Innovation Areas

Automated Mobility

The Samsung DRVLINE initiative is about creating a safer, smarter, and more mobile future through innovations in machine vision, automated mobility, automotive-grade safety, and security.

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Innovation Areas

Internet of Things

Connecting everything and gaining new insights from the data collected is beginning to change the world – we’re building platforms to make it easier and more secure.

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Innovation Areas

Digital Health

Technology can help us listen to the Voice of the Body™, so we can better monitor and control our own health, prevent diseases before they start, and live better lives.

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Innovation Areas

Cloud Data Infrastructure

We’re building the infrastructure to help store, process, and retrieve the 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated every day, so we can better understand ourselves and our connected world.

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Innovation Areas

Security & Privacy

As our lives become more digital and connected, protecting our information is more important than ever. We build security and privacy into our innovations from the ground up.

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Investing Strategically

We help the brightest minds in technology bring their visions to life. By offering resources and expertise to entrepreneurs and innovators in a variety of core technologies and disciplines, we help them maximize their opportunity to change the world.

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Menlo Park,
CA, USA

2440 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025 / Tel. 1-650-223-7898

San Jose,
CA, USA

3655 North 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95134 / Tel. 1-408-544-4000

Paris,
France

Le Centorial, 18 rue du Quatre Septembre, 75002 Paris

Tel Aviv,
Israel

4 Hahoshlim Street, Entrance B, #1 Floor, Herzliya

Seoul,
South Korea

1-1, Samsungjeonja-ro, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea