Samsung’s R&D Institute in Bengaluru, Karnataka, additionally knowns as SRI-B, is celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary right this moment. The facility, Samsung’s largest outdoors home-country South Korea, was arrange again in 1996. Over the years, SRI-B has grown into a sophisticated R&D centre for Samsung globally, giving rise to improvements in wi-fi communications, multimedia and picture processing, synthetic intelligence in imaginative and prescient, voice and textual content applied sciences, and Internet of Things (IoT).
Now on its twenty fifth anniversary, Samsung has revealed what’s in retailer for SRI-B shifting ahead. Over the following 5 years, Samsung will likely be exploring Multi-Device Intelligence, past 5G, Blockchain and Data Science on the Bengaluru R&D centre. These are the applied sciences that Samsung claims, create sturdy differentiation for the model by way of innovation in digicam applied sciences, AI (synthetic intelligence) and 5G.
Samsung Open Innovation
With a historical past of submitting patents amongst its engineers during the last 10 years, SRI-B will now additionally broaden open innovation with different startups, college students in addition to universities, to “help strengthen the innovation and startup ecosystem in the country.”
To obtain this, Samsung will likely be scaling up its industry-academia program PRISM, underneath which it has been working with engineering college students and school on real-world analysis and improvement initiatives. Samsung claims that the model has labored with nearly 500 college students within the nation, a few of which have gone forward and filed patents together with Samsung engineers.
SRI-B engineers have filed over 3,200 patents up to now, with the variety of patents quadrupling yearly during the last three years. Samsung additionally mentions that in this time, it witnessed a rise in patents filed by Gen Z and Millennial engineers, 80 p.c of who filed their first patents ever with SRI-B engineers.
