SK Group, Nvidia sign $500bn deal for AI infrastructure

South Korea-based SK Group and Nvidia person announced a concern worthy implicit $500bn, aiming to found AI infrastructure to conscionable rising planetary compute demands.

The agreement, formalised done letters of intent, covers the operation of AI factories arsenic good arsenic the proviso and co-development of next-generation AI memory.

The collaboration includes plans for SK Telecom, SK Group's telecommunications division, to physique a 2GW AI unreality successful South Korea.

This task volition deploy Nvidia's DSX level and Vera Rubin accelerated computing technology, with SK hynix HBM4 memory.

The archetypal installation is scheduled to commence operations successful 2027. These AI factories are designed utilizing Nvidia's DSX full-stack architecture, which combines accelerated computing, integrated systems, software, and spouse technologies.

The purpose is to maximise vigor ratio and trim processing costs arsenic request for AI continues to grow, peculiarly crossed Asia-Pacific markets specified arsenic South Korea.

The concern intends to velocity up the improvement of large-scale AI infrastructure, including solutions for enterprise, agentic, physical, and sovereign AI applications.

SK hynix, which is portion of the SK Group, has entered into a semipermanent concern with Nvidia to unafraid the proviso and associated optimisation of next-generation AI memory, including high-bandwidth representation (HBM).

The companies mean to code evolving infrastructure requirements, specified arsenic those related to ample connection exemplary grooming and assorted AI usage cases.

SK Group president Chey Tae-won said: "In the AI era, competitiveness depends not conscionable connected however efficaciously AI is utilised, but connected however overmuch quality we tin produce.

"By leveraging SK hynix's AI representation and SK Telecom's AI infrastructure capabilities, SK volition collaborate with Nvidia to physique a world-class AI factory, helping Korea transcend its relation arsenic a starring adopter of AI and go a planetary hub that drives AI innovation."

The announcement builds connected a longstanding narration betwixt SK Group and Nvidia. It follows anterior plans to grow AI infrastructure and formalises further collaboration successful AI representation technology.

Nvidia laminitis and CEO Jensen Huang said: "South Korea has each the ingredients to go a planetary AI powerhouse — world-class networks and information centres, enactment successful spot exertion and immense concern scale.

"Together with SK Telecom and SK hynix, we are gathering a caller procreation of AI factories that volition powerfulness Korea's adjacent question of growth."

In a abstracted development, Naver, Nvidia, and Brookfield person announced a projected enlargement of South Korea's nationalist AI mill infrastructure.