Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang during a keynote speech at the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 in Washington, DC, USA.
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South Korean semiconductor giant Samsung announced on Thursday that it plans to purchase and deploy 50,000 clusters. Nvidia Graphics processing equipment to improve chip manufacturing for mobile devices and robots.
The 50,000 Nvidia GPUs will be used to build what Samsung calls an “AI megafactory.” Samsung did not provide details about when the facility would be built.
It’s the latest splashy partnership for Nvidia, whose chips remain essential for building and deploying advanced artificial intelligence.
The partnership with Samsung comes after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday that NVIDIA is pitching partnerships with the following companies: Palantir, Eli Lilly, cloud strike and Uber.
Immediately after the speech, Hwang was seen drinking beer with Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other business leaders in South Korea, according to local media. Nvidia says other Korean companies such as SK Group and Hyundai are also deploying similar amounts of GPUs.
“We are working closely with the South Korean government and supporting their ambitious leadership plans in the AI space,” Raymond Tae, Nvidia’s senior vice president for Asia Pacific, said in a call with reporters on Wednesday.
These partnerships support Huang’s claim Tuesday that Nvidia has a total business of $500 billion in current-generation GPUs called Blackwell, in addition to next-generation GPUs called Rubin.
The prediction sent Nvidia’s stock price soaring, and the company reached a market capitalization of $5 trillion for the first time.
On Thursday, Nvidia representatives said they are working with Samsung to adapt the South Korean company’s chip-making lithography platform to work with Nvidia’s GPUs. This process improves Samsung’s performance by a factor of 20, Nvidia officials said. Samsung will also use Nvidia’s simulation software called Omniverse. Samsung, known for its mobile phones, also announced it would use Nvidia chips to run its own AI models for its devices.
Samsung is not only a partner and customer, but also a major supplier to Nvidia.
Samsung makes high-performance memory, called high-bandwidth memory, that Nvidia uses in large quantities alongside its AI chips. Samsung has announced that it will work with Nvidia to fine-tune its 4th generation HBM memory for use in AI chips.
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