Nvidia Expands Ai Ties With Hyundai, Samsung, Sk, Naver

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea for nan first clip successful 15 years to unveil caller plans and deepen collaboration pinch awesome Korean tech companies — including Hyundai Motor, Samsung, SK, and Naver. During this week’s APEC Summit 2025, Nvidia and nan South Korean authorities announced an expanded business to boost nan country’s AI infrastructure and physical AI capabilities.

The announcement comes conscionable days after nan U.S. signed exertion deals pinch Japan and South Korea, aiming to deepen strategical ties and boost collaboration connected emerging technologies, including AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotech, and 6G.

South Korea will unafraid complete 260,000 of Nvidia’s latest GPUs to meet increasing AI demands, nan South Korean authorities announced connected Friday. Around 50,000 GPUs will support nationalist initiatives, including nan development of home AI instauration models and a nationalist AI information center. The remaining complete 200,000 GPUs will spell to companies specified arsenic Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver, driving AI-based manufacturing invention and industry-specific AI exemplary development.

Nvidia, Samsung squad up connected AI mill and AI-RAN for 6G 

Samsung also announced plans to build an AI Megafactory successful business pinch Nvidia, bringing AI into each shape of its manufacturing for semiconductors, mobile devices, and robotics. Using much than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and nan Omniverse platform, nan installation will shape an intelligent web tin of analyzing, predicting, and optimizing accumulation successful existent time.

Samsung and Nvidia, partners for complete 25 years, are now collaborating connected HBM4, a next-generation representation designed to powerfulness early AI applications.

Nvidia will activity pinch Samsung, 3 Korean telecom operators — SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus — and ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) to co-develop AI-RAN, according to nan Korean Ministry of Science and ICT.

AI-RAN combines mobile guidelines stations pinch AI to boost capacity and trim artillery use, and nether a caller agreement, Nvidia and South Korea’s manufacture and investigation institutions will jointly create next-generation AI-RAN and a world testbed, nan Korean authorities stated.

In mid-October, Nvidia said Samsung Foundry will thief make civilization CPUs and XPUs, pursuing its activity pinch Intel to link x86 CPUs straight to Nvidia platforms via NVLink Fusion.

Hyundai drives early mobility pinch AI factory

Meanwhile, Hyundai and Nvidia are joining forces to build AI infrastructure and beforehand technologies successful beingness AI. The business plans to attraction connected autonomous mobility, smart factories, and robotics, while collaborating connected high-performance GPU proviso and investment

According to Nvidia, nan companies will usage 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for integrated AI exemplary training, validation, and deployment, and will found AI investigation centers successful South Korea to fortify nan country’s beingness AI industry.

“AI is revolutionizing each facet of each industry, and successful proscription unsocial — from conveyance creation and manufacturing to robotics and autonomous driving — Nvidia’s AI and computing platforms are transforming really nan world moves,” said Huang. “Together pinch Hyundai Motor Group — Korea’s business powerhouse and 1 of nan world’s apical mobility solutions providers — we’re building intelligent cars and factories that will style nan early of nan multitrillion-dollar mobility industry.”

SK builds AI cloud; Naver partners connected beingness AI

SK Group, genitor of SK Hynix, is partnering pinch Nvidia to build Asia’s first enterprise-led manufacturing AI cloud, leveraging Nvidia’s simulation and integer copy platforms and opening entree to nan government, nationalist institutions, and home startups.

Naver Cloud, nan unreality limb of Korean hunt motor Naver, is collaborating pinch NVIDIA to create a next-generation “Physical AI” level that connects nan beingness and integer worlds. The unreality institution intends to deploy AI infrastructure crossed cardinal industries, including semiconductors, shipbuilding, energy, and biotechnology, aiming to accelerate nan take of AI solutions optimized for real-world business environments, according to Naver.

“Just arsenic nan automotive manufacture is transitioning to SDVs, nan era of ‘Physical AI,’ wherever AI operates straight wrong existent business sites and systems, is unfolding,” Hae-jin Lee, laminitis of Naver, said successful Naver’s statement.

Nvidia’s collaborations pinch Korean large tech giants — from Samsung’s AI web initiatives to Hyundai’s software-defined vehicles, SK Group’s business AI applications, and Naver’s unreality and AI services — item a broader trend, which is nan fusion of AI and hardware crossed industries. These partnerships show really world tech leaders are joining forces to style nan adjacent procreation of intelligent systems.

Earlier this week, nan U.S. tech elephantine announced a activity of caller partnerships pinch companies including Eli Lilly, Palantir, Hyundai, Samsung, Uber, and Joby Aviation, on pinch nan U.S. Department of Energy, arsenic CEO Jensen Huang sought to downplay concerns astir an AI bubble. The news sent its banal soaring, arsenic Nvidia became nan first publically traded institution to surpass a $5 trillion marketplace capitalization.