Samsung's contract chipmaking arm has secured a deal to manufacture power-management chips designed by Claros for use in artificial-intelligence data centers, according to a report from Digitimes carried by Google News.
Power-management chips are the unglamorous but essential components that regulate and deliver electricity to the high-performance processors driving AI workloads. As data centers pack in ever more powerful AI accelerators, the job of feeding them clean, stable power efficiently has become a growing engineering challenge — and a growing business opportunity for the companies that design and build these parts.
The arrangement positions Samsung Foundry, the division that produces chips on behalf of outside customers, as the manufacturer for Claros's designs. Beyond that, the source item does not detail the volume, value, or timeline of the agreement, nor the specific process technology involved.
Why it matters: winning contracts to make the supporting silicon for AI data centers helps a foundry like Samsung capture a slice of the booming AI infrastructure buildout, even beyond the marquee processors that get most of the attention.