Seoul, Aug. 14 -- In a bid to accelerate AI adoption across its semiconductor operations, Samsung Electronics has appointed two AI experts, including a former data engineering specialist at Meta, the Korea Herald reported.

The South Korean electronics giant is increasingly utilising AI across its semiconductor business to shorten development cycles, improve manufacturing efficiency and raise productivity amid intensifying competition in advanced chips.

It has hired Han Bo-hyung -- a deep-learning and vision AI researcher as a fellow and former Meta data engineering specialist Hahn Tai-rin as vice president.

"Han will lead the development of AI models tailored to semiconductor research and development, while Hahn will oversee the creati...