Nvidia said on Monday that it has reached agreements with South Korea's SK Hynix, Naver and Doosan Group to build AI data centres and to use the U.S. chip designer's technology in those facilities. The announcements came as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang continued a high-profile visit to South Korea that began on Friday and included informal meetings with senior corporate leaders, a baseball pitch appearance and a meeting with a prominent gamer.
Company representatives did not provide financial details for the arrangements. Nvidia and SK Hynix described a multi-year technology partnership intended to advance next-generation memory designed for global AI data centres.
SK Hynix said the collaboration will open new AI-related fields for the memory maker, naming personal AI and physical AI as targeted areas of expansion. The company also said the partnership would help ensure a stable supply of memory chips, a meaningful point given the long development cycles associated with advanced memory semiconductors.
SK Telecom, a sister company of SK Hynix, announced plans to construct a gigawatt-scale AI cloud in South Korea using Nvidia technology, and said the first AI data centre is scheduled to come online in 2027.
Separately, Nvidia said it will cooperate with South Korean internet group Naver and industrial conglomerate Doosan. Both companies will use Nvidia technology to build AI data centres.
Doosan, which has activities in robotics and manufactures materials used in Nvidia's most powerful Blackwell chips, said it expects its energy solution to be integrated into Nvidia's data centre platforms. Doosan added it will employ Nvidia's physical AI technology in its projects as well.
The announcements underscore South Korea's role as a major manufacturing centre in Asia, with strengths in chips, electronics, automobiles and shipbuilding. The country is home to SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, which the companies say are the world's two largest makers of memory chips, components that are integral to data centre operations.
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