Overview
- Nvidia confirmed plans to provide more than 260,000 next‑generation GPUs after meetings in Gyeongju with President Lee Jae Myung and leaders of Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai and Naver.
- Allocations include about 50,000 chips for government use, up to 50,000 each for Samsung, SK Group and Hyundai, and 60,000 for Naver to expand national and commercial AI computing.
- Samsung will deploy 50,000 GPUs in an “AI Megafactory” to automate chip production using Nvidia platforms such as Omniverse, with additional collaboration on manufacturing simulations.
- Hyundai, Nvidia and the government signed an MOU to co‑invest roughly $3 billion to develop a national physical AI cluster for robotics, autonomous driving and smart factories, with detailed timelines and locations not disclosed.
- SK Group will use Blackwell processors for an industrial AI cloud and deployments at SK hynix sites, while U.S. export controls continue to restrict Blackwell sales to China and recent Trump–Xi talks did not change that status; deal values and delivery schedules were not disclosed.