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Nvidia and SK Group signed letters of intent this week formalizing a strategic relationship valued at over $500...
Nvidia and SK Group signed letters of intent this week formalizing a strategic relationship valued at over $500 billion.
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Nvidia and SK Group signed letters of intent this week formalizing a strategic relationship valued at over $500 billion. The partnership includes a long-term memory supply agreement with SK hynix (unveiled in June), SK Telecom's plan to build a 2-gigawatt AI data center in South Korea running on Nvidia's DSX platform with Vera Rubin GPUs and HBM4 memory, and future expansion of AI infrastructure. The first data center is slated for 2027, supporting sovereign, enterprise, physical, and agentic AI across Asia-Pacific. Separately, Nvidia announced a $1 billion investment in Naver Corp to finance an AI data center in South Korea (Bloomberg, July 25). While the SK deal is a letter of intent, the scale—$500 billion aggregate over several years—signals a massive buildout of Nvidia's AI factory ecosystem, strengthening its position against rivals like AMD and potentially increasing demand for TSMC's advanced packaging capacity.
What the sources said
- Tom's Hardware (July 25): "Nvidia and SK Group this week signed letters of intent to formalize their new strategic relationship valued at more than $500 billion."
- Tom's Hardware: "SK Telecom's planned 2-gigawatt AI data center in South Korea... will deploy Vera Rubin accelerated computing systems equipped with SK hynix HBM4 memory."
- Bloomberg (July 25): "Nvidia will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea."
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