The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (Minister Lee Young) and the Korea Institute of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Development (Director Kim Yong-moon) held the ‘CES 21 K-Startup Review Seminar’ at the National Assembly Building on the 2023st (Tuesday) together with the National Assembly startup research and support group ‘Unicorn Farm’. did.
Unicorn Farm is a National Assembly startup research and support group launched in November 2022, with a total of 11 members participating, led by Rep. Kang Hoon-sik (Democratic Party of Korea) and Rep. Kim Seong-won (People Power Party) as co-representatives, and is preparing measures to support startup growth. It is being actively operated with the goal of:
This seminar was held under the theme ‘What CES 2023 Eureka Park left behind, the direction for Korean tech startups’, and was promoted to share the experiences and achievements of K-startups participating in CES 2023 and seek ways to provide global support. . Mobilint (CEO Dong-ju Shin), a company specializing in AI semiconductors, participated in the last CES and exhibited its first ASIC product ‘Aries’, showing its presence in the global semiconductor market.
The company explains that Aries has powerful performance and efficiency that can replace existing graphics processing units (GPUs). Companies that supply computer vision-related products or services can implement more powerful and marketable products through Aries, and with performance optimized for edge computing, the value of use in smart factories and smart cities can be increased. You can.
Shin Dong-joo, CEO of Mobilint, said, “Our company is a fabless company that has been developing AI semiconductor solutions, and we are currently active in a field of high interest around the world.” He added, “After research and development and testing that has focused the company’s capabilities, “We produced our first chip, Aries, at the end of last year, completed chip verification in about a month, and introduced it at CES 2023 this year.”
Above all, CEO Shin said, “AI is a recent trend representing the global industry, and we were able to confirm the high level of interest in AI semiconductors, which are its foundation.” He continued, “More than 2,000 visitors visited our booth during the exhibition period. At the same time, we were able to discuss collaboration and investment through various networking activities, and to date, we have succeeded in creating more than 10 partnerships. “He explained.
He continued, “As soon as I returned home from the CES schedule, I signed an MOU with ‘Hi-Vision System’, a company famous for supplying vision inspection equipment to Apple’s assembly line, and continued collaboration with SK Telecom, which is seeking to expand its business in the AI field. “He emphasized, “In addition to this, we are also receiving a variety of interest and courtship in the investment attraction sector where we are attempting to mass produce our own semiconductors.”
As the background for these achievements, Mobilint cited the status and public interest of CES 2023, the world’s largest exhibition. CEO Shin said, “Rather than simply introducing products through video or text, displaying actual semiconductor products at CES at the exhibition site led to a promotional effect,” adding, “Furthermore, we provided abundant promotional materials and expected reactions from visitors. “Being prepared for these questions was a great help in promoting our products and company identity.”
Meanwhile, ‘CES’, the world’s largest IT exhibition, is an exhibition where you can understand the trends of the global home appliance industry at a glance. Hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), it is held every January in Las Vegas, USA. A total of 1 companies participated in this year’s CES, of which Korea ranked second in the world with 3,200 company booths. In addition, among the 598 companies that participated in Eureka Park, a mecca for startups, 2 domestic startups ranked first in the world (1,000 in France and 355 in the United States).