Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia Corp., during the keynote speech at the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, USA, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
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Korean semiconductor giant Samsung said Thursday it plans to purchase and deploy a group of 50,000 NVIDIA graphics processing units to improve its manufacturing of chips for mobile devices and robots.
Nvidia’s 50,000 GPUs will be used to create a facility Samsung calls the “AI Mega Factory.” Samsung did not provide details on when the facility would be built.
It’s the latest eye-catching partnership from Nvidia, whose chips remain essential for building and deploying advanced artificial intelligence.
The deal with Samsung comes after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C., that Nvidia was collaborating with companies like Palantir, Eli Lilly, Strike crowd and Uber.
Shortly after the speech, Huang was seen in South Korea drinking beer with Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other business leaders, according to local media. Other Korean companies, including SK Group and Hyundai, are also deploying similar numbers of GPUs, Nvidia said.
“We are working closely with the Korean government to support its ambitious AI leadership plans,” Raymond Teh, Nvidia’s senior vice president for Asia-Pacific, said in a phone call with reporters on Wednesday.
The partnerships support Huang’s claim Tuesday that Nvidia has a business portfolio totaling $500 billion of its current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, in addition to its next-generation GPU, called Rubin.
The forecast helped boost Nvidia’s stock, making the company the first to reach a market capitalization of $5 trillion.
On Thursday, Nvidia representatives said they will work with Samsung to adapt the Korean company’s chipmaking lithography platform to work with Nvidia GPUs. That process will result in 20 times better performance for Samsung, Nvidia representatives said. Samsung will also use Nvidia’s simulation software called Omniverse. Samsung, known for its mobile phones, also said it would use Nvidia chips to run its own artificial intelligence models for its devices.
In addition to being a partner and customer, Samsung is also a key supplier to Nvidia.
Samsung makes the type of high-performance memory that Nvidia uses in large quantities, along with its artificial intelligence chips, called high-bandwidth memory. Samsung said it will work with Nvidia to modify its HBM4 memory for use in AI chips.
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