Korea, US, Japan urged to join forces on AI chips, energy

As the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure intensifies, business leaders and policy experts from Korea, the United States and Japan gathered in Seoul on Thursday with a warning: No country can compete alone. At a conference hosted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, speakers called for deeper trilateral cooperation in AI semiconductors, energy security and nuclear power. Among the proposals were joint development of energy-efficient AI memory chips, shared AI infrastructure for startups and coordinated investments in U.S. liquefied natural gas projects. Kwon Seok-joon, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University, said the AI industry has shifted from a race for computing power to competition over efficiency and affordability. “Korea, the U.S. and Japan should jointly develop AI data center semiconductors optimized for performance per watt and cost efficiency,” Kwon said. He also proposed creating a joint semiconductor research hub modeled after Belgium’s IMEC. Industry officials said the three countries could combine Korea’s manufacturing data, Americ

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