NVIDIA Reaches Major AI Cooperation Agreement with South Korean Giants Samsung Electronics and SK Group

It is reported that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is attending the APEC CEO Summit in South Korea. NVIDIA has reached a landmark agreement to provide its technology to some of South Korea's largest companies, part of the company's global efforts to actively expand AI infrastructure. According to the agreement with the Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea and three companies—Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Group, and SK Group—NVIDIA will supply over 260,000 accelerator chips to help South Korea launch AI projects. NVIDIA did not disclose the specific financial terms of the deal.

As part of the agreement, the South Korean government is building a so-called "sovereign AI," which refers to computing infrastructure controlled by the country. South Korea will deploy over 50,000 of NVIDIA's latest AI accelerators in data centers, including facilities owned by the National AI Data Center and companies such as Kakao Corp., Naver Corp., and NHN Cloud Corp.

Memory chip giant Samsung Electronics will build an "AI factory" that will house over 50,000 NVIDIA chips. Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor has committed to using a similar quantity of processors based on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture. These chips will be used to develop Hyundai's AI models and help advance manufacturing and autonomous driving technologies. SK Group, including its affiliates SK Telecom Co. and SK Hynix, will deploy a series of NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell server chips, in what NVIDIA calls Asia's first "Industrial AI Cloud." This facility will advance robotics and other real-world applications of AI.