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NVIDIA and SK Group Build AI Factory to Drive Korea’s Manufacturing and Digital Transformation
NVIDIA and SK Group Build AI Factory to Drive Korea’s Manufacturing and Digital Transformation
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[{"type":"text","content":"New AI Infrastructure With Over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs to Boost Chip Design, Digital Twin, Robotics and AI Agent Development\nNews Summary: SK Group and NVIDIA are deepening their partnership to advance SK hynix HBM and future memory solutions for NVIDIA GPUs, chip manufacturing and telecommunications.SK Group is building an NVIDIA AI factory featuring more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs.SK hynix is advancing chip manufacturing with NVIDIA CUDA-X technologies, including through the NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo framework, tapping AI physics to significantly accelerate technology computer-aided design simulation.SK hynix is developing semiconductor fab digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers to achieve faster production ramp-up, higher efficiency and progress toward robotic self-optimizing fabs.SK hynix is deploying AI-powered agents with NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to boost productivity for over 40,000 employees.SK Telecom is launching an industrial cloud built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs in Asia, enabling startups, enterprises and government agencies to accelerate digital twin and robotics innovation. GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- APEC Summit—NVIDIA today announced that it is working with SK Group to build an AI factory to advance semiconductor research, development and production, as well as cloud infrastructure to support digital twin and AI agent development. SK Group is building an AI factory featuring more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs, with the first phase planned for completion by late 2027. Once complete, the system is expected to be one of Korea’s largest AI factories. The new factory will serve SK subsidiaries — including SK hynix and SK Telecom (SKT) — as well as external organizations through a GPU-as-a-service model, accelerating digital transformation and industrial innovation for Korea’s industries. Further expanding the NVIDIA and SK Group partnership, the companies are collaborating on the development of SK hynix high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and next-generation advanced memory solutions for NVIDIA GPUs, semiconductor manufacturing and telecommunications infrastructure. “In the era of AI, a new kind of manufacturing plant has emerged: the AI factory,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “SK Group is a vital memory technology partn...