2017-й год отмечен повышенным интересом иностранных инвесторов к покупке акций высоколиквидных южнокорейских компаний. Как сообщает The Korea Herald, в период с 1 января по 20 октября 2017-го капитализация таких брэндов как KB Financial Group, LG Electronics и Samsung SDI повысилась, соответственно, на 34%, 85% и 88%. В числе наиболее привлекательных для иностранных инвесторов также были названы Hyundai Heavy Industries, POSCO, Hyundai Motor и Hana Financial Group. За указанный выше период южнокорейский биржевой индекс KOSPI вырос на 22,85%. Исследования рыночных аналитиков показывают, что институциональные инвесторы вложили значительные средства в Naver, LG Electronics, LG Chem и Lotte Shopping, которые также зафиксировали приличную прибыль. Главными фаворитами для розничных инвесторов были SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, LG Display и AmorePacific, которые в среднем показали 25% рост. KB Financial, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI top picks by foreign investors KB Financial Group, LG Electronics and Samsung SDI were among the top picks by foreign investors through October, which have enjoyed decent gains far exceeding the market-average returns, industry data showed on Oct. 22. According to the data compiled by market tracker FNGuide, foreign investors have scooped up KB Financial Group stocks worth 1.23 trillion won (US$1.07 billion) so far this year through on Oct. 20, with some 1 trillion won and 845 billion won, respectively, poured into buying LG Electronics and Samsung SDI. During the cited period, KB Financial has risen 34 percent, with LG Electronics and Samsung SDI also racking up an 85 percent gain and an 88 percent rise, respectively. Over the cited period, the country‘s benchmark index, the KOSPI, has advanced 22.85 percent. Hyundai Heavy Industries, POSCO, Hyundai Motor and Hana Financial Group were among their top picks as well, the data showed. The data also showed that institutional investors heavily bought Naver, LG Electronics, LG Chem and Lotte Shopping, which also logged decent gains, according to the data. The top 10 stocks favored by foreign investors have generated an average 36 percent yield, while institutional investors’ top-10 picks posted an average 46 percent rise. Retail investors‘ top picks were SK hynix, Samsung Electronics, LG Display and AmorePacific, and they enjoyed an average 25 percent advance during the cited period, the data showed.
Команда киберспортсменов Samsung Galaxy вышла в полуфинал чемпионата мира по League of Legends (LoL). В четвертьфинале они разгромили Longzhu Gaming со счётом 3:0. Royal Never Give Up в четвертьфинале обыграла Fnatic со счётом 3:1. Ещё одна пара полуфиналистов - SK Telecom T1 и RNG разыграют путёвку в финал 28 октября. В полуфинале 29 октября Samsung Galaxy встретится с Team WE, которые 22-го числа обыграли Cloud9 со счётом 3:2. Longzhu Gaming, в свою очередь, закончила своё выступление на турнире и не поднимется выше 5-го места в итоговом зачёте. Полуфинальные матчи пройдут на арене спорткомплекса "Восток" (Шанхай, КНР). Турнир завершится 4 ноября. В настоящее время призовой фонд чемпионата составляет $4,1 миллиона. Samsung Galaxy sweep Longzhu Gaming to become the first team through to the League of Legends Worlds 2017 semifinals The first day of the League of Legends Worlds 2017 Knockouts kicked off with a huge upset as Samsung Galaxy decimated Longzhu Gaming. In the first quarterfinal match of the esports championships, everyone expected the Korean champions Longzhu Gaming to come out the victors. However Samsung Galaxy, Korea's third seed, defied expectations and played out of their skin to take a 3-0 victory and progress to the semifinals. Surprising turn of events means that there are are no first seeds remaining from any region, as Team SoloMid, Edward Gaming, G2 Esports, Gigabyte Marines, and Flash Wolves are all out. Longzhu Gaming were strong favourites for the tournament after beating reigning champions SK Telecom T1 in the Korean final earlier this year, and after going through the Group Stage completely undefeated. There were talks of them even winning the Grand Final without losing a game in the entire tournament. However, Samsung Galaxy took three games off them and sent them crashing out. The players from Longzhu Gaming will go to bed hoping it's all been a bad dream, as they certainly had a nightmare on Summoner's Rift. Not only did Samsung Galaxy play well mechanically, they also seemed to have the beating of Longzhu strategically. Game 1 Longzhu's mid laner Kwak 'Bdd' Bo-seong was licking his lips in the first game where he was Syndra matched up against the Malzahar of SSG's Lee 'Crown' Min-ho. And indeed, he picked up a solo kill early in the game to take first blood. It was fairly even in the early game though. A dive in the top lane looked to be going all wrong for SSG, until Kim 'Khan' Dong-ha chased a little too far and lost his life. The teams traded kills in the middle of the map a number of times, and Longzhu came out slightly on top in a couple of team fights. They went on to win a big team fight in their own jungle around the 35 minute mark, but Samsung won a far more important one a few minutes later near Baron. This was the turning point in the match, and Samsung were able to steamroll LZ from then on, until they barged into their base with the ace and the victory in the 45th minute. Game 2 Longzhu took down Crown early in the game once again, but SSG turned it around a few minutes later with an unexpected four man stack in the mid lane to pick up two kills. The kills kept coming for Samsung too, and although LZ picked up a dragon in the 19th minute, SSG swarmed them to pick up an ace, losing just two members of their team. Longzhu simply had no answer to the gold disadvantage they faced, and it only took SSG half an hour to surge into their base and take game two. Crown had a monumental game on Taliyah, securing 100% kill participation with his score of 9/1/7. Game 3 Crown took the spotlight in game three even before the players loaded onto the Rift by locking in Lissandra. He also took first blood in the game after the team invaded the enemy jungle to take down Lee 'Cuzz' Woo-jin on Gragas. Cuzz had a difficult series, often failing to make a meaningful impact. Meanwhile, the veteran jungler Kang 'Ambition' Chan-yong from SSG was seemingly all over the map, and immensely tanky playing Sejuani in every game in the series. Building on yet another early lead, Samsung Galaxy snowballed the game, and Longzhu simply didn't have enough damage. Every time it seemed like LZ were getting back into the game with a kill or two, Samsung were taking an objective on the other side of the map. In another relatively quick game, Samsung were able to take Longzhu's nexus after 34 minutes, securing a surprising whitewash, and a place in the next round. Samsung have now shot up the prediction list, but the slight favourites now have to be SK Telecom T1, three time winners and Korea's second seed. For now, Samsung Galaxy can relax before preparations begin for their semifinal match on October 29.
Южнокорейский техногигант Samsung Electronics инвестировал в китайского разработчика искусственного интеллекта (AI) в рамках своих усилий, направленных на сокращение разрыва в глобальной гонке AI-платформ и смарт-устройств, сообщает бизнес-потрал The Investor со ссылкой на осведомлённые отраслевые источники. В августе Samsung направил существенные инвестиции в DeePhi Tech (http://www.deephi.com/), базирующийся в Циньхуа стартап, занятый технологиями глубокого обучения. «Samsung довольно много вложил в DeePhi Tech, после того как группа южнокорейских разработчиков встретилась с должностными лицами стартапа и была удивлена их прогрессом.», - отметил неназванный источник. «Похоже, что Samsung сделал значительные инвестиции в китайскую компанию в соответствии с курсом китайского руководства по содействию отечественным компаниям, специализирующимся в области высоких технологий. Впрочем, инвестиции могли быть сделаны из политических соображений, а не обязательно из-за технологического мастерства статртапа». Это вторая инвестиция, которую Samsung сделал в зарубежные AI-стартапы после $30-миллионной "инъекции" в британский Graphcore в октябре прошлого года. Samsung входит в число компаний-партнёров, хотя это не отражено на вэб-сайте DeePhi Tech, а также их поддерживает китайский чипмейкер Mediatek, американская компания Xilinx и поставщик облачных сервисов Amazon Web Services. DeePhi Tech - разработчик решений для глубокого обучения, который был основан в 2016-м году четырьмя соучредителями, которые закончили Университет Циньхуа в Пекине и Стэнфордский университет. Компания привлекает внимание гигантов, типа Samsung, благодаря разработкам в области технологии нейронной компрессии, нейролингвистических процессов и нейросети. SK Telecom, южнокорейский мобильный оператор, который увлечён своим новым бизнесом в области AI, также предложил инвестиции в китайский стартап этим летом, но получил отказ, сказал источник. DeePhi Tech предлагает набор для разработки "глубоких нейронных сетей", известный как DNNDK, который представляет собой комплект разработчика программного обеспечения, функционирующий как интегрированная платформа, целью которой является упрощение и ускорение разработки приложений для глубокого обучения. Сообщается, что Samsung заинтересован в наборе AI-микросхем на основе нейронных сетей для переносных устройств, которые позволяют мгновенно распознавать речь, контекстную обработку и другие задачи распознавания на смартфонах. Такие AI-чипсеты, известные как блоки нейронной обработки, или NPU, находятся на пике внимания рынка как средство расширения использования программ для искусственного интеллекта, особенно в смартфонах. 19 октября Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, координирующий усилия Samsung Group по развитию технологий будущего, провёл двухдневный семинар по развитию AI, пригласив всемирно известных учёных в рамках набирающего силу глобального движения по развитию искусственного интеллекта. "Многие подразделения Samsung ускоряют исследования по разработке AI на своём собственном уровне", - сказал Ю Хой-Джон, профессор Корейского передового технологического института. Samsung и DeePhi не были доступны для комментариев 22 октября. Однако официальный представитель Samsung сказал, что последние инвестиции в китайскую компанию могут стать частью стратегии корпорации по увеличению инвестиций в стартапы, связанных с AI, по всему миру. Samsung invests in Chinese AI chipset startup DeePhi Tech Memory chip giant Samsung Electronics has invested in a Chinese artificial intelligence technology developer as part of its efforts to catch up in the intensifying global race for AI platforms and devices, according to industry sources on Oct. 22. In August, Samsung made a significant investment in DeePhi Tech, a Tsinghua-based startup with deep learning technologies, a source told The Korea Herald. “Samsung made quite a large investment in DeePhi Tech, which a group of Korean developers who met the startup’s officials found surprising,” the source said. “Samsung appears to have made considerable investment in the Chinese company, in line with the Chinese government’s move to foster homegrown AI tech firms. The investment could have been made out of political consideration, not necessarily over the company’s technological prowess.” It is the second investment Samsung has made in foreign AI tech startups following a US$30 million investment in the UK-based Graphcore last October. Samsung is listed as one of the partner businesses on DeePhi Tech’s homepage, along with China’s fabless chipmaker Mediatek, US fabless Xilinx and cloud service provider Amazon Web Services. DeePhi Tech is a deep learning solution developer that was founded in 2016 by four co-founders who graduated from Tsinghua University and Stanford University. The company draw attention from tech giants like Samsung due to its neural network compression technology and neural network hardware architecture. SK Telecom, a Korean mobile carrier that is also passionate about its emerging AI business, had also offered an investment to the Chinese startup this summer, but the company turned down the offer, the source said. DeePhi Tech offers the Deep Neural Network Development Kit, known as DNNDK, which is a deep learning software development kit designed as an integrated framework that aims to simplify and accelerate deep learning applications. Samsung is reportedly interested in the company’s neural network-based AI chipsets for portable devices, which allow instantaneous speech recognition, neural language processing and other recognition tasks on smartphones. Such AI chipsets, known as neural processing units, or NPUs, are at the height of market attention as a means to widen the use of AI programs, especially in smartphones. On Oct. 19, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, a control tower for future technologies, held a two-day seminar on the development of AI technologies by inviting globally renowned scholars, as part of the ongoing move. “Many Samsung units are accelerating research on the development of AI at their own level,” said Yoo Hoi-joon, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology. Samsung and DeePhi were not immediately available for comments on Oct. 22. However, a Samsung official said that the latest investment in the Chinese firm may be part of the company’s direction toward increasing investments in AI-related startups around the world.
