Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, received a superstar’s welcome in South Korea. Plus, NVIDIA announced deals with Samsung, Hyundai, SK Group, and the South Korean government.
NVIDIA deals
Samsung
- Samsung and NVIDIA are building on a deep partnership of more than 25 years to extend their semiconductor collaboration from next-generation HBM and custom solutions to foundry services for manufacturing, AI and robotics.
- Samsung and NVIDIA are working together to innovate breakthroughs for next-generation semiconductors, as well as to power Samsung products and services across smartphones and robotics.
- Samsung is accelerating its chipmaking OPC lithography platform with NVIDIA CUDA GPU-accelerated infrastructure for chip manufacturing, achieving 20x performance gains in computational lithography and technology computer-aided design simulations.
- Samsung is building digital twins with NVIDIA Omniverse for global fabs to shorten time from design to operations and enable AI-driven predictive maintenance, operational optimization and real-time decision-making.
- Samsung is harnessing NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and solutions from Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens to achieve massive speedups in simulation, verification and manufacturing analysis.
SK Group
- SK Group and NVIDIA are deepening their partnership to advance SK hynix HBM and future memory solutions for NVIDIA GPUs, chip manufacturing and telecommunications.
- SK Group is building an NVIDIA AI factory featuring more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs.
- SK hynix is advancing chip manufacturing with NVIDIA CUDA-X technologies, including through the NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo framework, tapping AI physics to significantly accelerate technology computer-aided design simulation.
- SK hynix is developing semiconductor fab digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers to achieve faster production ramp-up, higher efficiency and progress toward robotic self-optimizing fabs.
- SK hynix is deploying AI-powered agents with NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to boost productivity for over 40,000 employees.
- SK Telecom is launching an industrial cloud built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs in Asia, enabling startups, enterprises and government agencies to accelerate digital twin and robotics innovation.
Hyundai
- Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA will collaborate with the Korean government to develop Korea’s physical AI industry, including the establishment of an AI Application Center and AI Technology Center, while nurturing local AI talent to build a vibrant innovation ecosystem.
- Hyundai Motor Group is building an NVIDIA AI supercomputer to accelerate model training, validation and deployment for in-vehicle AI, autonomous driving, smart factories and robotics.
- Hyundai Motor Group is exploring using the NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos platforms on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers to develop car factory digital twins and robots.
- With NVIDIA Nemotron open models and the NVIDIA NeMo software, Hyundai Motor Group is speeding proprietary LLM and AI development.
- Using NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor, running on the safety-certified NVIDIA DriveOS operating system, Hyundai Motor Group is developing advanced driver-assistance systems, next-generation safety features and in-vehicle intelligence for mobility solutions.
South Korea government
- The Korean government, through the Ministry of Science and ICT, is investing in sovereign AI infrastructure with over 50,000 of the latest NVIDIA GPUs to be deployed across the National AI Computing Center and Korean cloud service and IT providers NHN Cloud, Kakao Corp. and NAVER Cloud.
- Samsung Electronics is building an AI factory with over 50,000 GPUs to accelerate its AI, semiconductor and digital transformation roadmap.
- SK Group is building an AI factory featuring over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs and Asia’s first industrial AI cloud featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for physical AI and robotics workloads.
- Hyundai Motor Group is collaborating with NVIDIA and the Korean government in building an NVIDIA AI factory with 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to enable integrated AI model training, validation and deployment for manufacturing and autonomous driving.
- NAVER Cloud is expanding its NVIDIA AI infrastructure with over 60,000 GPUs for enterprise and physical AI workloads.
- NAVER Cloud, LG AI Research, SK Telecom, NC AI, Upstage and NVIDIA are developing Korean foundation LLMs to accelerate Korean AI applications through public-private partnerships.
- The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information is establishing a Center of Excellence for the advancement of quantum computing and science.