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Title: Samsung is using NVIDIA chips to build its new AI chip factory

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:00:57 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/samsung-is-using-...

NVIDIA has teamed up with with South Korea's biggest companies and the
country itself, as they build out their AI infrastructure. One of those
companies is Samsung, which is building a new AI factory that will use 50,000
NVIDIA Blackwell server GPUs and other NVIDIA technologies to make its own
chips. This "AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing," as the companies call
it, will help Samsung improve its processes, better predict maintenance needs
and improve the efficiency of its autonomous operations. NVIDIA will help
Samsung adapt its chipmaking lithography platform to work with its GPUs, and
it will apparently result in 20 times greater performance for Samsung.

Korean carmaker Hyundai will also use 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to develop
its AI models for manufacturing and autonomous driving. Meanwhile, the SK
Group conglomerate, which includes SK Telecom and DRAM and flash memory chip
supplier SK Hynix, will use 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell server chips to launch an
industrial AI cloud. The facility, NVIDIA says, will power the "next
generation of memory, robotics, digital twins and intelligent AI agents." As
Bloomberg reports, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who's in South Korea for the Asia-
Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit, was recently photographed with
Samsung's Jay Y. Lee and HyundaiΓÇÖs Chung Euisun in a local restaurant.

Finally, NVIDIA is working with the South Korean government for its sovereign
AI infrastructure, or AI it will have control over. The Korean government
will deploy 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs to the National AI Computing Center it's
establishing, as well to facilities owned by local companies that include
Kakao and Naver.

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