Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Group have announced new partnerships with NVIDIA to develop AI-driven factories that aim to accelerate semiconductor, mobility, and robotics innovation in Korea and beyond.
Why it Matters: The collaborations mark Korea’s growing role in the global AI race. With NVIDIA providing tens of thousands of its Blackwell GPUs, both Samsung and Hyundai plan to build intelligent manufacturing ecosystems where AI, robotics, and digital twins optimize everything from chip production to autonomous driving.
Samsung’s AI Megafactory
Samsung is creating a new AI Megafactory that will integrate all stages of semiconductor production into one intelligent system powered by more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs. This includes design, process, equipment, and quality control, connected through a network where AI continuously analyzes and improves operations in real time.
The company will use NVIDIA’s cuLitho and CUDA-X libraries to enhance wafer patterning, achieving up to 20x faster computational lithography. Samsung is also developing digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse to simulate entire fab operations virtually, improving predictive maintenance and reducing downtime.
Beyond manufacturing, Samsung and NVIDIA will continue to work together on high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) technology built on Samsung’s 6th-generation 10-nanometer-class DRAM. The company plans to expand its AI infrastructure globally, including in its Taylor, Texas site, and strengthen collaborations in AI-RAN development for future intelligent networks.
Hyundai Motor Group’s AI Factory
Hyundai Motor Group is deepening its partnership with NVIDIA to build an AI Factory based on the Blackwell platform, uniting autonomous vehicle research, robotics, and smart factory operations into one ecosystem. This initiative supports Korea’s national plan to establish a physical AI cluster with an estimated USD 3 billion investment.
Under this collaboration, Hyundai will use NVIDIA’s DGX infrastructure for large-scale AI training, Omniverse for digital twin simulations, and DRIVE AGX Thor for in-vehicle and robotic intelligence. These tools will help develop autonomous driving systems, improve manufacturing efficiency, and advance humanoid robotics.
Hyundai will also collaborate with NVIDIA to develop AI models using Nemotron and NeMo frameworks for over-the-air vehicle updates and personalized in-car assistants. The companies are testing virtual simulations of regional driving environments to improve safety and accelerate autonomous driving validation.
A New Era of Physical AI
Both Samsung and Hyundai’s initiatives represent Korea’s push to integrate AI into the physical world — from smart factories to connected vehicles and intelligent networks. Government support, combined with NVIDIA’s computing infrastructure, is expected to advance the country’s AI capabilities and talent development.
As Korea moves toward AI-driven industries, these partnerships could shape the next generation of intelligent manufacturing, mobility, and robotics. How do you think these AI factories will change the future of Korean tech?
