유영상 “3대 Next Big-tech로 글로벌 ICT 판 다시 짠다”SKT의 Next Big-tech들이 본격적으로 글로벌 시장에 진출하는 원년이 될 것”이라고 강조
*아래는 위 기사를 구글 번역기로 번역한 영문 기사의 [전문]이다. [Below is the [full text] of an English article translated from the above article with Google Translate.
SKT President Yoo Young-sang, “We will rewrite the global ICT landscape with the three next big-techs”
It will be the first year of SKT’s next big-techs to enter the global market in earnest.”
[Introduction of the incident/ Reporter Park Yeon-pa] = SK Telecom (CEO and President Youngsang Yoo) held a press conference in Barcelona, Spain, where MWC22 was held, and held a press conference for its three major 'Next Big-tech (Metaverse, AI semiconductors, quantum cryptography)' announced on the 1st that it will begin its global expansion in earnest.
SKT President Yoo Young-sang, who hosted the meeting, emphasized, “2022 will be the first year in which SKT’s next big-techs, which were created with the know-how accumulated over three years after the commercialization of 5G, will enter the global market in earnest.”
In addition, SKT announced that it plans to promote stable growth of its core businesses by reorganizing its business fields into five major business groups: △Wired and wireless communication △Media △Enterprise △AIVERSE and △Connected Intelligence.
Metaverse, AI semiconductor, quantum cryptography, etc. ‘Three Next Big-techs’ to be the first year of global expansion
‘Metaverse, AI semiconductor, quantum cryptography communication’, which SKT has introduced for the past three years since the commercialization of 5G, is attracting a lot of attention from ICT big players around the world at this MWC.
metaverse
SKT's metaverse service 'Ifland' will actively enter the global market, starting in 80 countries this year. ‘Ifland’ has not only been established as a new communication platform, receiving more than 1,500 requests for partnership in Korea, but also received high expectations and interest in the international telecommunication industry as it is a successful metaverse service developed by a global telecommunication company.
At MWC22 this time, it has established itself as Korea's representative metaverse service, receiving requests for collaboration meetings from telecommunication companies around the world. SKT introduced the developed version of Global ifland, which will be unveiled to the world at MWC22, and the ‘HMD (Head Mounted Display)’ version developed to expand the user’s metaverse experience area.
In addition, in order to take a leap forward into a global innovative service, the platform is upgraded to an open type so that users can present various contents in IFLAND, and service upgrades such as opening a market place in a virtual space to which crypto (NFT/blockchain) technology is applied. We plan to increase user convenience.
SKT plans to evolve eFriend into a single AIVERSE service in which AI agents and content/economic system/backend infrastructure are interconnected.
AI semiconductor
SKT plans to become a top-tier operator in the global AI semiconductor field by launching the next-generation AI semiconductor next-generation model by this year or early 2023. AI semiconductor is a field that is expected to grow at an annual rate of 44% and reach 40 trillion won in global market size by 2025. did it
Based on the AI accelerator project in 2016, SKT developed a prototype for three years and released the AI semiconductor ‘SAPEON X220’ in November 2020. Sapion X220 received favorable reviews for its excellent performance of processing 6,700 images per second with the power of one incandescent light bulb, even at a lower price than existing GPUs.
In addition, at the beginning of this year, Sapion was established in the U.S. through a joint investment of the three companies with SK Square and SK Hynix to prepare a bridgehead for targeting the global market.
SKT plans to concentrate its efforts on securing commercial cases in manufacturing, security, media, and automobile fields in cooperation with SAPEON, an AI semiconductor company that was recently spun off to expand the field of global AI semiconductors this year.
SKT announced that it will grow into a company with cumulative sales of 2 trillion won and corporate value of 10 trillion won by 2027 through the launch of next-generation AI semiconductors and active global expansion.
quantum cryptography
SKT announced its goal of becoming a global top quantum cryptography operator in the field of quantum cryptography communication, where the importance of security is increasing due to the diversification of smart devices and the scope of application is expanding day by day.
Based on 'IDQ', the world's best quantum cryptography technology company acquired in 2018, SKT has already created use cases for quantum cryptography communication in major national telecommunications, financial and public networks in North America and Asia as well as Europe. We are building the best security technology.
In fact, at the end of last year, the 'Quantum Cryptographic Communication (QKD*-based) Network Integrated Management Specification Standard (ETSI GS QKD-018)' proposed by SKT was approved by the Industrial Standards Group under the European Telecommunications Standards Organization (ETSI).
QKD (Quantum Key Distributor): A technology that uses quantum characteristics to create an encryption key that cannot be hacked by a third party and distributes it to the sender and receiver
Also, in Korea, quantum cryptography was applied to the 221km section of SKT's 5G backbone network for the first time in the world in Korea in 2019. In 2020, it launched the world's first QRNG (quantum random number generator) phone, 'Galaxy A Quantum' with Samsung Electronics. is leading
In particular, based on such technological prowess and marketability, it has secured more than 250 customers and partners, and is producing continuous results, such as more than doubling its sales compared to before the acquisition. This year, the company plans to expand sales of existing products such as QRNG and QKD (quantum encryption key distribution), and expand its business to new areas related to security, such as blockchain and quantum encryption solutions.
President Yoo Young-sang said, "We will become the global No. 1 quantum cryptography operator by working with companies in the global communication/security/IT field."
New growth plan amid aggressive global expansion by reorganizing the area into five major business groups
In the midst of rapid changes in global trends, SKT will also carry out reorganization of its five major business groups to achieve the goal of global advancement and expansion of corporate sustainability.
The five business groups are △ 'wireless and wireless communication' including 5G △ content-oriented 'media' △ 'Enterprise' that oversees fields such as data center, cloud, and AIoT △ subscription, metaverse, and AI agent's three service-oriented AIVERSE △ UAM It is 'Connected Intelligence' that prepares for future businesses such as robots and autonomous driving.
Wired and wireless communication will strengthen global competitiveness based on 5G leadership, and media will focus on expanding subscriber-based platform competitiveness to the entire value chain, including content and T-commerce advertisement business. The enterprise business will promote business advancement such as expansion of the data center and global expansion, cloud services using 5G MEC technology, AI-based IoT, and smart factories. AIVERSE service will evolve into a new AI service that customers have never experienced before, such as subscription products 'T universe', metaverse, and AI agent. It is responsible for connecting devices.
In fact, in relation to the UAM business, SKT not only promoted super cooperation with strong global companies, such as signing a strategic business agreement with Joby Aviation, a global top-tier UAM aircraft manufacturer, on the 7th of last month, but also participated in government demonstration projects such as UAM are taking the lead in the market.
In addition, SKT is planning to launch its robot-related business in earnest by using SKT's various AI as its core technology as one of the connected intelligence technologies. SKT decided to invest in CMES, a company specializing in AI robotics software development, and plans to actively promote the service robot business, starting with the AI logistics robot business.
SKT is also developing a “Barrier Free AI” project that actively utilizes AI not only for business but also for ESG.
Barrier-free AI is a project that applies AI to support the elderly and the socially disadvantaged. SKT uses voice AI and vision AI to help communicate between deaf taxi drivers and passengers, 'Quiet M', object and character recognition for the visually impaired. It is providing services such as 'Now I See', which applies voice AI to support services.
In addition, the spread of AI semiconductor Sapion, which uses less strategy compared to the existing ones, and Metaverse If Friends, which replaces movement and resource consumption in the real world with a virtual world, are also a great force in Net Zero activities, which SKT has been working on since its declaration of RE100 in 2020. expect this to be
SKT President Yoo Young-sang said, “I am confident that SKT 2.0’s overseas expansion, which will begin in earnest with metaverse, AI semiconductor, and quantum cryptography, will serve as a foundation for Korea, an ICT powerhouse, to lead the next-generation global ICT market.” We will continue to introduce differentiated technologies and services.”
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