Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote speech at the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, USA on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
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South Korean semiconductor giant Samsung said on Thursday it plans to buy and deploy 50,000 clusters NVIDIA graphics processing units to improve its chip manufacturing for mobile devices and robots.
50,000 Nvidia GPUs will be used to create what Samsung calls the “AI Megafactory.” Samsung did not provide details on when the facility would be built.
It's the latest high-profile partnership for Nvidia, whose chips remain critical to building and deploying advanced artificial intelligence.
The partnership with Samsung follows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's announcement on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., that Nvidia is working with companies including: Palantir, Eli Lilly and Company, mass strike and Uber.
Huang was spotted drinking beer with Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other business leaders in South Korea shortly after the speech, local media reported. Nvidia said other Korean companies such as SK Group and Hyundai Motor are also deploying similar numbers of GPUs.
“We are working closely with the Korean government to support its ambitious leadership plan in artificial intelligence,” Raymond Teh, senior vice president of Nvidia's Asia Pacific region, told reporters on Wednesday.
These partnerships support Huang's assertion on Tuesday that Nvidia's current-generation GPUs (Blackwell) and next-generation GPUs (Rubin) are a combined $500 billion business.
The forecast helped boost Nvidia's stock price, making the company the first company to reach a market capitalization of $5 trillion.
On Thursday, Nvidia representatives said they would work with Samsung to adapt the Korean company's chipmaking lithography platform to work with Nvidia's GPUs. Nvidia representatives said this process will give Samsung a 20x performance improvement. Samsung will also use Nvidia's simulation software Omniverse. Samsung, best known for its phones, also said it would use Nvidia chips to run its own artificial intelligence models on its devices.
In addition to being a partner and customer, Samsung is also a major supplier to Nvidia.
Samsung makes the high-performance memory that Nvidia uses heavily as well as its artificial intelligence chips, called high-bandwidth memory. Samsung said it will work with Nvidia to adapt its fourth-generation HBM memory for use in artificial intelligence chips.
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