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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shakes hands with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won after a media briefing following their meeting at SK group\u2019s office building in Seoul, South Korea, June 8, 2026. REUTERS PHOTO<\/p>\n
SK Group, South Korea\u2019s second-largest family-owned conglomerate, said its SK Hynix and SK Telecom arms had agreed deals with Nvidia.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Memory chip maker SK Hynix signed a multiyear technology partnership that will see it commit to developing advanced types of memory for global AI data centers, SK Group said.<\/p>\n SK Hynix and Nvidia said the agreement, which comes as memory chip makers have been straining to keep up with demand, would enable supply to keep pace with Nvidia\u2019s plans, which have expanded to robotics, personal computers and AI supercomputers.<\/p>\n \u201cSK Hynix has been Nvidia\u2019s largest memory partner. SK Hynix will continue to be Nvidia\u2019s largest memory partner,\u201d Huang said after a meeting with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won at the headquarters of the chipmaker\u2019s parent.<\/p>\n Huang said the deal with SK Hynix, a rival to Samsung Electronics and US-based Micron Technology, was for more than two years with the option to keep extending.<\/p>\n \u201cWe already procure and we buy from SK Hynix already billions and billions of dollars each year, and it\u2019s going to grow substantially,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Ryu Young-ho, a senior analyst at NH Investment & Securities, said the SK Hynix-Nvidia partnership reinforced the view that memory chips were evolving from a commodity product into a more customer-specific business.<\/p>\n Other deals<\/p>\n SK Telecom said it would build a gigawatt-scale AI cloud in South Korea using Nvidia technology, with the first AI data center to come online in 2027. Nvidia said internet giant Naver and conglomerate Doosan would also use its technology to help build AI data centers.<\/p>\n Doosan, which is developing robots and makes materials used in Nvidia\u2019s most powerful Blackwell chips, said it expected its energy solution to be used in Nvidia\u2019s data center platforms and for it to use the US firm\u2019s physical AI technology as well.<\/p>\n Nvidia is also partnering with LG Group on electronics, mechanical systems and AI for humanoid robots, Huang said after a meeting with the tech conglomerate\u2019s Chairman Koo Kwang-mo.<\/p>\n Huang said the pair were also working on the architecture of future data centers including cooling, power delivery and the entire design and building of the data centers.<\/p>\n After a meeting with Hyundai Motor Group\u2019s Executive Chair Euisun Chung in the afternoon, Huang said Nvidia would deepen its partnership with Hyundai across a range of AI initiatives, including autonomous mobility, robotics and AI-powered manufacturing.<\/p>\n He also highlighted opportunities to accelerate the development of industrial robotics, saying Nvidia and Hyundai would work together to bring AI to \u201call forms of mobility\u201d and deepen collaboration on robotics for practical industrial applications.<\/p>\n Huang referred to Hyundai Motor Group\u2019s planned AI data center in Saemangeum as an \u201cAI Valley\u201d akin to California\u2019s Silicon Valley and said he was \u201cvery happy to build Nvidia in Saemangeum.\u201d<\/p>\n South Korea stock rally falters<\/p>\n South Korea is an Asian manufacturing powerhouse, home to major producers of chips, electronics, cars and ships. SK Hynix and Samsung are the world\u2019s two largest makers of memory chips, which are key components in data centers.<\/p>\n The country\u2019s benchmark Kospi index has doubled in six months as heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung benefited from the AI wave, but closed 8.3-percent lower on Monday after robust US jobs data fanned bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike this year and sparked a rout in global tech stocks.<\/p>\n Shares in Samsung and SK Hynix closed down 10.2 percent and 7.7 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n When asked about the global chip stock rout, Huang waved off concerns. \u201cEverybody should be very excited; they can now buy stock at a cheaper price, and it\u2019s absolutely true that the future of AI is very bright.\u201d<\/p>\n Huang also planned to meet Samsung\u2019s semiconductor business head Jun Young-hyun later on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2014 Nvidia on Monday announced a series of deals in South Korea with tech giants including SK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7343,4221,27130,27675,2588,408,8719,293,11825,3511,314,3990,657,2295,1130,8341,127,642,241,240,275,1364,33,27253],"class_list":["post-47143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk","tag-ai-cloud","tag-ai-data-centers","tag-ai-supercomputers","tag-ai-valley","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-doosan-group","tag-federal-reserve","tag-hyundai-motor-group","tag-jensen-huang","tag-kospi-index","tag-lg-group","tag-memory-chips","tag-naver","tag-nvidia","tag-robotics","tag-saemangeum","tag-samsung","tag-semiconductor","tag-sk","tag-sk-group","tag-sk-hynix","tag-sk-telecom","tag-south-korea","tag-technology-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143","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=47143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}