Korea's climate ministry targets commercial tandem solar cells by 2028 in a roadmap that will shape the country's 2028 national R&D investment standards. Superconducting grids go to a new advisory committee that will study the state's role over 10 to 20 years.
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Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's home-built RFT-30 cyclotron has cut Korea's reliance on imported zirconium-89 from 100% to under 5%. The institute also ships the isotope abroad, where its cyclotron research head says U.S. FDA approval could lift demand much further.
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Three consortia will run a free tier with no usage caps on state-supplied hardware, under a rule that Korean models carry at least half the load. The ministry has published neither the cost nor a target for uptake.
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Seoul is buying distribution rather than compute. The government is handing operators a donated chip grant, has set an 80 percent domestic serving floor, and hasn't published what the programme will cost - all in a country where roughly 1.8 million people pay for any AI at all.
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AMD will open an AI Center of Excellence in Korea by year end to co-test its CPUs and GPUs with domestic NPUs. What is committed so far is engineers and a steering committee, not capital.
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