Nvidia holds to 260,000-GPU Korea plan despite Huang resignation, minister says
Nvidia has confirmed it will go ahead with plans to deploy up to 260,000 graphics processing units in South Korea, the country's science minister said on Friday, even after Jensen Huang's resignation as chief executive.
Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said in a Facebook post that business cooperation will continue despite Huang's exit, adding that the science ministry has held a meeting with Nvidia on pending issues. The commitment covers a plan announced in October to supply GPUs for large-scale artificial intelligence factories in the country.
The tie-up involves the South Korean government and major industry leaders, including Samsung Electronics, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group and Naver Cloud, each establishing its own AI computing centre powered by Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs.
GPUs are high-performance semiconductor chips built to handle many calculations at once and are widely used to train and run AI models. Industry sources see potential shifts in HBM supply terms and customer relationships, while projects championed by Huang face uncertain priorities.
Nvidia has not set out a revised timetable for the deployments, and the science ministry did not give details of what was discussed at its meeting with the company.
