Samsung taps NVIDIA’s powerful GPUs to supercharge Korea’s AI ambitions

Earlier this month Samsung revealed plans to purchase over 50,000 flagship GPUs from Nvidia to construct an “AI Megafactory”. This initiative sees Samsung collaborating with other South Korean conglomerates to position South Korea as a formidable force in the AI sector.

Samsung working with other Korean firms to build AI infrastructure

The South Korean government has created a workgroup that involves Hyundai, Naver Cloud, Samsung, and SK Telecom. The group will take forward a nationwide effort to create an AI infrastructure that involves using 260,000 Nvidia GPUs. The inaugural meeting of the group is already complete, and the firms and the government discussed implementation strategies and ways to expand collaboration to strengthen the country's AI ecosystem.

The top executives from all four firms were present at the meeting, and it was chaired by Ryu Je-myung, the Second Vice Science Minister. The group will meet regularly and create a coordination system for the future. With a total of over 300,000 Blackwell GPUs from Nvidia, South Korea will have the necessary hardware to become the world's second biggest hub for AI compute after the USA.

Samsung and SK Hynix make high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that are used in those Blackwell GPUs. The companies stand to benefit from those sales. Samsung plans to bring AI to all its divisions and use AI internally for several tasks. It has already developed its own AI models and an Agentic AI framework.

Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

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Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S23 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.

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