Seoul: Nvidia Corp. plans to deploy up to 260,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in South Korea in partnership with the government and major companies here to build large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) factories in the country, the U.S. chip giant said Friday.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the initiative will involve the South Korean government and major industry leaders, including Samsung Electronics Co., SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver Cloud Corp. These entities will each establish their own AI computing centers powered by Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs.
Under the plan, which Nvidia shared in a preview media briefing on Thursday, the Seoul government will allocate up to 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to support the creation of a national "sovereign AI" platform. This platform is designed to train large language models (LLMs) optimized for Korean language and industrial applications.
A GPU is a high-performance semiconductor chip designed to handle many calculations simultaneously and is widely used to train and run AI models.