NVIDIA and SK Group Build AI Factory to Drive Korea’s Manufacturing and Digital Transformation
New AI Infrastructure With Over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs to Boost Chip Design, Digital Twin, Robotics and AI Agent Development
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 partner, helping NVIDIA create the world's most advanced GPU computing platforms that power global AI progress. We are delighted to partner with SK to build its AI foundation on NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, creating AI factories that will transform SK and energize Korea's AI ecosystem."
"SK Group is working with NVIDIA to make AI the engine of a profound transformation that will enable industries across Korea to transcend traditional limits of scale, speed and precision," said Chey Tae-Won, chairman of SK Group. "With the NVIDIA AI factory as our foundation, SK Group will forge the infrastructure that powers the next generation of memory, robotics, digital twins and intelligent AI agents."
The SK Group AI factory infrastructure will be available to sovereign model developers participating in the Korea government's Sovereign AI Foundation Models project. SKT is also taking part in the program as a model developer to provide foundation models for enterprises, industries and researchers working on AI agent and application development.
SK Telecom Advances Physical AI and Robotics With NVIDIA Omniverse
NVIDIA Cloud Provider SKT plans to build an industrial AI cloud with NVIDIA RTX PROâ„¢ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs in Asia, empowering the nation's manufacturing leaders to advance physical AI and robotics development.
The initial deployment will include over 2,000 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, and will run NVIDIA Omniverseâ„¢ workloads to support SK hynix's semiconductor manufacturing, fab digital twins and internal AI agents.
SK Hynix Boosts Productivity Through AI Physics, Digital Twins, Robotics and AI Agents
SK hynix is using the accelerated cloud infrastructure from SKT to scale its operations.
SK hynix is tapping NVIDIA CUDA-Xâ„¢ technologies, including through the NVIDIA PhysicsNeMoâ„¢ framework, to accelerate chip design with AI physics. This accelerates technology computer-aided design simulations, enabling SK hynix to deliver next-generation semiconductor products faster and with greater precision. SK hynix is also testing opportunities to accelerate its current use of Synopsys software with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for technology computer-aided design and circuit simulation.
To boost efficiency, SK hynix is building autonomous fab digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. These digital twins enable real-time simulation, monitoring and optimization of fab operations, resulting in faster production ramp-up, improved operational agility and progress toward fully self-optimizing manufacturing facilities.
SKT is developing a foundation model called A.X. that will power SK hynix's AI agents, built with NVIDIA NIMâ„¢ microservices and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. These agents will help more than 40,000 employees, production staff and office workers collaborate and solve problems faster, accelerating productivity across chip development and fabrication.
Learn more about these collaborations by joining the NVIDIA keynote and sessions at the SK AI Summit, running Nov. 3-4.
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