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Nvidia said that Samsung Electronics will build an AI factory with 50,000 GPUs
In sum – what to know:
$3B AI infrastructure expansion – Over 260,000 Nvidia GPUs to power sovereign and industrial AI across Korea’s cloud, manufacturing, and research sectors.
Industrial leaders drive AI growth – Samsung, Hyundai, SK Group, and Naver each deploying 50,000+ GPUs, creating large-scale AI factories for semiconductor, robotics, and automotive innovation.
AI sovereignty and research – Korea to develop local LLMs and quantum research hubs with Nvidia’s NeMo, CUDA-Q, and NVQLink platforms.
Nvidia is partnering with the South Korean government and major Korean industrial groups to deploy more than 260,000 GPUs, the AI chipmaker said in a release.
Through the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), South Korea will install over 50,000 next-generation GPUs across the National AI Computing Center and local cloud providers, including NHN Cloud, Kakao Corp., and Naver Cloud.
Nvidia also noted that Samsung Electronics will build an AI factory with 50,000 GPUs. The Korean giant will use Nvidia technologies, including Nemotron post-training datasets, CUDA-X, the chip company’s cuLitho library, and Omniverse, to build digital twins that improve the speed and yields of sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Meanwhile, SK Group is designing an AI factory that can host over 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to advance semiconductor research, development and production, as well as cloud infrastructure to support digital twin and AI agent development. SK Telecom plans to provide sovereign infrastructure featuring Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. The company will offer industrial cloud infrastructure to accelerate digital twin and robotics projects for startups, enterprises and government agencies.
Also, Hyundai Motor Group and Nvidia will deploy 50,000 Blackwell GPUs for autonomous driving and manufacturing AI. The pair will work closely with government stakeholders to accelerate ecosystem development. This will result in an approximately $3 billion investment to advance the physical AI landscape in Korea, according to the U.S. chip company. Key initiatives include the creation of an AI technology center, Hyundai Motor Group Physical AI Application Center, and regional AI data centers, said the chip giant.
Meanwhile, Naver Cloud will expand its AI capacity with 60,000 GPUs to train sovereign models and industry-specific AI systems.
At the policy level, Nvidia and the Korean government are co-developing sovereign foundation models with LG AI Research, SK Telecom, NC AI, Naver Cloud, and Upstage, using Nvidia NeMo and Nemotron datasets to enhance local language and reasoning capabilities.
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) will establish a Center of Excellence for quantum computing using Nvidia CUDA-Q and NVQLink, while startups will gain access to the company’s infrastructure through the Inception and N-Up AI programs.
Samsung, SK, and OpenAI recently announced new strategic partnerships as part of OpenAI’s Stargate initiative. These partnerships will focus on increasing the supply of advanced memory chips essential for next-generation AI and expanding data center capacity in Korea.
