NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made his first official visit to South Korea in 15 years this Thursday. On the same day, Samsung announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA, launching a full-scale AI factory project equipped with over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs.
Samsung stated that by deploying more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs, AI will be integrated throughout its entire manufacturing process, accelerating the R&D and production of next-generation semiconductors, mobile devices, and robots.
Samsung also plans to leverage NVIDIA’s accelerated computing technology and implement digital twin manufacturing using the NVIDIA Omniverse library.
NVIDIA Omniverse is a simulation platform for building and operating real-time 3D applications, services, and virtual worlds. Digital twin manufacturing creates a virtual replica of physical manufacturing processes, enabling companies to monitor and analyze the entire workflow in real time.
Samsung intends to build digital twins to digitize and visualize the operations of its wafer fabs. These "virtual environments will be used to identify anomalies, perform predictive maintenance, and optimize production before applying changes in the physical world".
Samsung plans to expand its AI factory infrastructure to its global manufacturing hubs, including its U.S. base in Taylor.
The two companies are also collaborating on the development of HBM4 technology, which utilizes Samsung’s 6th-generation 10nm-class DRAM and 4nm logic substrates, with a speed of up to 11Gbps.
In addition, Samsung and NVIDIA are partnering with other Electronic Design Automation (EDA) collaborators to develop next-generation GPU-accelerated EDA tools and design technologies. EDA is used to automate the design, verification, and manufacturing preparation of integrated circuits and microprocessors.
The two companies are also cooperating in the field of intelligent robots through NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition platform and NVIDIA Jetson Thor robotics platform.
Samsung is working with NVIDIA, South Korean telecom operators, academia, and research institutions to jointly advance collaboration on AI-RAN technology. This is a next-generation communication technology that integrates artificial intelligence into cellular radio access networks to enhance their performance, efficiency, and capabilities.
(Reprinted from https://news.eccn.com/）