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Investing.com -- NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is collaborating with the South Korean government and major industrial companies to expand the nation’s AI infrastructure with over 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs across sovereign clouds and AI factories.
The Korean Ministry of Science and ICT is investing in sovereign AI infrastructure with plans to deploy up to 50,000 of the latest NVIDIA GPUs through the National AI Computing Center and Korean cloud providers including NAVER Cloud, NHN Cloud, and Kakao Corp.
Several major Korean corporations are making significant AI infrastructure investments. Samsung Electronics is building an AI factory with over 50,000 GPUs to advance its semiconductor manufacturing and AI integration.
SK Group is developing an AI factory with more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs and Asia’s first industrial AI cloud featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
Hyundai Motor (KS:005380) is collaborating with NVIDIA to build an AI factory with 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, representing approximately $3 billion in investment to advance AI-driven mobility solutions. NAVER Cloud is expanding its infrastructure with over 60,000 GPUs for enterprise and physical AI workloads.
"Korea’s leadership in technology and manufacturing positions it at the heart of the AI industrial revolution — where accelerated computing infrastructure becomes as vital as power grids and broadband," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
The announcement came as world leaders gathered in South Korea for the APEC Summit. The initiative aims to support Korea’s national strategy to become one of the top three global AI powerhouses.
NVIDIA is also working with Korean institutions on AI-RAN and 6G infrastructure development, partnering with Samsung, SK Telecom, ETRI, KT, LGU+ and Yonsei University.
Additionally, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information is establishing a Center of Excellence for quantum computing advancement, supporting NVIDIA’s NVQLink open architecture for connecting quantum processors with GPU supercomputing.
To foster economic development, NVIDIA and partners are creating an alliance to support startups through the NVIDIA Inception program, providing access to computing infrastructure, software, and expertise.