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Korea's ETRI Enters Race for Leadership in '6G AI-Native' Field, Investing About 47 Billion Won Over Four Years
Related terms: 通信技術 6G AI ネットワーク N A（キーワード: AI-native テラヘルツ波）
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[What Happened] South Korea's research institute ETRI announced a plan to invest about 47 billion won over four years to lead the next-generation '6G' communications field in AI-native design (designing networks with AI built in from the start). Countries and companies worldwide are intensifying competition over international 6G standards.
[Why It Matters] Communication standards change generation roughly every ten years, with 6G following 5G. 'AI-native' refers to a design philosophy in which the network itself is autonomously optimized and controlled by AI, rather than having AI added on afterward. Countries and companies that control the standard gain major advantages in patents and industry, making this both a technological and a national strategic competition.
[Going Deeper] For 6G, the use of extremely high-frequency radio waves in the terahertz band is under consideration. Higher frequencies can carry more information, but they travel in straighter lines and are more easily blocked by obstacles—a physical trade-off that research using AI-based radio wave control and large numbers of antennas aims to overcome.
[Think About It] In an era when networks think and optimize on their own, what decisions or rights do you think we as users must not give up?
Explanation
[What Happened] South Korea's research institute ETRI announced a plan to invest about 47 billion won over four years to lead the next-generation '6G' communications field in AI-native design (designing networks with AI built in from the start). Countries and companies worldwide are intensifying competition over international 6G standards.
[Why It Matters] Communication standards change generation roughly every ten years, with 6G following 5G. 'AI-native' refers to a design philosophy in which the network itself is autonomously optimized and controlled by AI, rather than having AI added on afterward. Countries and companies that control the standard gain major advantages in patents and industry, making this both a technological and a national strategic competition.
[Going Deeper] For 6G, the use of extremely high-frequency radio waves in the terahertz band is under consideration. Higher frequencies can carry more information, but they travel in straighter lines and are more easily blocked by obstacles—a physical trade-off that research using AI-based radio wave control and large numbers of antennas aims to overcome.
[Think About It] In an era when networks think and optimize on their own, what decisions or rights do you think we as users must not give up?
Source: news.google.com