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Lionel Lim

South Korea wants to stockpile 10,000 GPUs as AI becomes a geopolitical contest

(Credit: Jung Yeon-je—AFP/Getty Images)

Normally, governments stockpile fuel or food in order to keep their economies running. As the AI arms race picks up, South Korea is considering building a reserve of a different strategic commodity: computer chips.

Seoul will secure 10,000 high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) within the year to ensure South Korea can keep up with global AI developments, acting president Choi Sang-mok said Monday. 

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