South Korea bets $1T on memory fabs and humanoid robots in one breath (arstechnica.com)
Seoul wants to double the country's DRAM capacity within five years and turn Korea from the world's biggest robot user into a leading robot maker. Samsung alone pledged about 1,000 trillion won over ten years across chips, AI data centers, and what the plan calls 'physical AI'.
One commenter read the bundle as groceries plus dance lessons: memory is an essential commodity, humanoids a sexy bet that may or may not pay off. Others tied the robot urgency to Korea's looming demographic cliff.
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