Sangyeun “Paul” Cho serves as President of Samsung Semiconductor and Corporate EVP of Samsung Electronics, responsible for Samsung's U.S. semiconductor business, which includes Memory, Foundry, and System LSI.
With over 18 years at Samsung, Cho has held leadership roles in Korea and the US. He founded the Memory Solutions Lab, pioneering innovations like in-storage computing and multi-streamed solid-state drives, which are now industry standards. Cho also led server-class SSD software engineering and security initiatives. Previously, he spent nearly a decade in academia as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on computer architecture. Cho holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. from Seoul National University.
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Recent Videos
Rethinking AI Infrastructure: Why Memory Now Drives Performance
As AI workloads scale, memory is emerging as the defining constraint on performance. This conversation explores how innovations in HBM and system integration are reshaping the future of AI infrastructure.
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Redefining AI's Limits: Samsung on Memory, Power, and System Design
AI has moved into production, bringing new constraints around memory bandwidth, power, and system efficiency into sharper focus. In this conversation, Samsung Semiconductor’s Paul Cho joins Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead to examine how these pressures are reshaping the way AI infrastructure is designed and scaled. From the growing role of advanced packaging to the realities of power-constrained infrastructure, the discussion explores where system architecture is changing, what the industry may still be overlooking, and what it will take to support the next phase of AI at scale.
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Shaping the Future of AI Memory
As AI workloads scale exponentially, memory has emerged as one of the greatest architectural challenges—and opportunities. Bandwidth, power, and proximity to compute are redefining system design, with high-bandwidth and custom memory solutions at the center. In this session, we’ll explore how the semiconductor industry must evolve to meet AI’s growing demands: from advancing HBM to packaging and foundry strategies. With AI pushing the limits of what’s possible, the future of memory will shape the future of AI itself.
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