NVIDIA and Samsung to Construct AI Factory in South Korea

NVIDIA and Samsung Electronics announced their plans to build a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) factory, which will integrate more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs. This facility aims to enhance AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing and improve operational efficiency in digital environments.

The collaboration builds on a partnership spanning over 25 years, extending their semiconductor efforts to include advanced foundry services and robotics. The AI factory represents a combined effort to meld Samsung's semiconductor technologies with NVIDIA's computing platforms.

Samsung will utilize NVIDIA's CUDA platform to enhance its chipmaking operations, achieving 20 times performance gains in computational lithography. Moreover, the factory will support the creation of digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse, allowing for AI-driven predictive maintenance and real-time decision-making.

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, indicated that this partnership would characterize a new phase in manufacturing and intelligence. Jay Y. Lee, executive chairman at Samsung, emphasized the companies' long-standing collaboration, pointing out how it has laid the groundwork for advancements in the industry.

The AI factory's operations will also focus on deploying NVIDIA RTX PRO servers and advanced robotics technologies. The end goal is to create a fully autonomous semiconductor manufacturing environment, optimizing production workflows and logistic processes.