{"id":43136,"date":"2026-06-05T21:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/43136\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:06:31","slug":"nvidia-ceo-says-robotics-is-south-koreas-next-big-sector-points-to-some-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/43136\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO says robotics is South Korea&#8217;s next big sector, points to &#8216;some surprises&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">By Minwoo Park, Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">SEOUL, June 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Friday said robotics will be South Korea&#8217;s next major sector, as he arrived for his second visit in seven \u200cmonths, underscoring deepening ties with local firms in not only chips but also robotics and AI factories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">South Korea \u200cis an Asian manufacturing powerhouse &#8211; home to major manufacturers of chips, electronics, cars and ships. After landing at Gimpo International Airport on a flight from Taiwan, \u200bHuang told reporters that chip manufacturing will be increasingly driven by AI and robotics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;Because Korea is a manufacturing centre of the world, we can apply the robotics technology, the physical <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI technology;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI technology&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI technology<\/a> that we invent here for the industry,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So we have a great opportunity to partner with the semiconductor companies here as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Huang said he had meetings scheduled with Hyundai Motor, LG, SK \u200cHynix, Samsung Electronics and Naver during his \u2060trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;Did I bring any gifts for Korea? I brought a lot of business for Korea,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have some surprises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">KOREAN BARBECUE<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In his first stop, the Nvidia boss visited an internet cafe in Seoul \u2060and met with e-sports players, including gaming superstar Lee Sang-hyeok, known as &#8220;Faker.&#8221; His daughter Madison Huang accompanied him during the visit, wearing a uniform of the renowned T1 e-sports team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Huang then had Korean barbecue and drinks in the evening at a restaurant in Seoul with \u200bLG \u200bGroup Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder \u200bLee Hae-jin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;We are all booming,&#8221; Huang told the \u200ccrowd during the dinner, referring to his partners, such as Samsung, SK Hynix, Naver and Hyundai Motor. &#8220;My friends here had a very good year, but this is just the beginning,&#8221; he said, adding that Nvidia&#8217;s new products would use a lot of memory chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">He handed out bags of chocolate-coated corn chips that were emblazoned with &#8220;HBM Chips&#8221; &#8211; after the high-bandwidth memory produced by SK Hynix for Nvidia&#8217;s AI chipsets &#8211; prompting the crowd to chant &#8220;HBM!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BASEBALL AND TV TALK SHOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Huang has said Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron \u200chave all been qualified to supply HBM4 chips for its Vera Rubin \u200bAI platform. &#8220;All three vendors are in production, and they are all racing \u200bto support Vera Rubin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix between \u200bthem make about 70% of the memory chips needed for artificial intelligence chips like the ones \u200cNvidia makes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;Of course memory is constrained and so we \u200bhave to be smart about \u200busing it in all of our systems,&#8221; Huang said, when asked by Reuters about a Semianalysis report that Nvidia would cut the SOCAMM capacity in its Vera Rubin system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Minwoo Park, Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, June 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25786,31,3990,2295,23080,276,275,33,16213],"class_list":["post-43136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-gimpo-international-airport","tag-korea","tag-memory-chips","tag-nvidia","tag-robotics-technology","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-sk-hynix","tag-south-korea","tag-vera-rubin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}