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Nvidia and Samsung Electronics have announced plans to build a new AI factory that will merge advanced semiconductor manufacturing with large-scale AI computing, marking a major milestone in the evolution of intelligent production.
The new AI factory will be powered by more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs, combining Samsung’s leading-edge semiconductor technologies with Nvidia’s accelerated computing platforms. Together, the companies aim to establish the foundation of next-generation AI-driven manufacturing and robotics.
“We are at the dawn of the AI industrial revolution — a new era that will redefine how the world designs, builds and manufactures,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “As Korea’s and one of the world’s foremost technology and industrial leaders, Samsung is forging its AI foundation with Nvidia to lead the future of intelligent and autonomous manufacturing — transforming Samsung itself and the many industries around the world built on Samsung technologies.”
“Nvidia has been a visionary of this new AI era, and its technologies have empowered innovators to reinvent industries,” said Jay Y. Lee, executive chairman of Samsung Electronics. “From Samsung’s DRAM for Nvidia’s game-changing graphics card in 1995 to our new AI factory, we are thrilled to continue our longstanding journey with Nvidia in leading this transformation as we envision creating new standards for the future and accelerating breakthroughs for the world.”
The partnership extends a 25-year collaboration that began with Samsung supplying DRAM for Nvidia’s first graphics card, the NV1. Since then, the companies have worked together on groundbreaking technologies like high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and custom chip solutions.
The new AI factory represents a natural evolution of that relationship — integrating Nvidia’s CUDA GPU infrastructure into Samsung’s semiconductor production to accelerate computational lithography, chip simulation, and digital twin technologies by up to 20 times.
Samsung will also use Nvidia’s Omniverse platform to create detailed digital twins of its fabs, enabling predictive maintenance, real-time decision-making, and factory automation. The company is additionally deploying Nvidia RTX Pro Servers with RTX 6000 Blackwell GPUs to power intelligent logistics and operations across its manufacturing ecosystem.
This announcement follows a series of major Nvidia initiatives in recent weeks. Just days ago, the company became the first in history to surpass a $5 trillion USD market capitalization, driven by the ongoing artificial intelligence boom.
Earlier this week, Nvidia also unveiled a $1 billion USD ($1.4 billion CAD) investment in Nokia to co-develop next-generation 6G networking technology. In September, Nvidia made headlines after investing $5 billion USD ($7 billion CAD) in Intel to jointly develop custom x86 chips that tightly integrate Intel CPUs with Nvidia GPUs for future data center and PC products.
With its new Samsung partnership, Nvidia is extending its influence beyond AI and data centers into the heart of global semiconductor manufacturing, signaling the start of a new phase in AI-driven industrial transformation.
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