3 min learnJun 5, 2026 05:12 PM IST
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Friday stated robotics will probably be South Korea’s subsequent main sector, as he arrived for his second go to in seven months, underscoring deepening ties with native corporations in not solely chips but additionally robotics and AI factories.
“As a result of Korea is a producing centre of the world, we will apply the robotics expertise, the bodily AI expertise that we invent right here for the trade,” he advised reporters after touchdown at Gimpo Worldwide Airport on a flight from Taiwan.
South Korea is a key Asian manufacturing powerhouse – house to main producers of chips, electronics, automobiles and ships.
“The manufacturing of semiconductors will turn out to be more and more robotics and more and more AI-driven within the future, and so we’ve got an amazing alternative to associate with the semiconductor firms right here as properly,” stated Huang.
Huang stated he had conferences scheduled with Hyundai Motor , LG, SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics and Naver throughout his trp.
“Did I convey any items for Korea? I introduced numerous enterprise for Korea,” he stated.
“I’ve some surprises.”
In his first cease, the Nvidia boss visited an web cafe in Seoul and met with e-sports gamers, together with gaming celebrity Lee Sang-hyeok, often called “Faker.” His daughter Madison Huang accompanied him through the go to, sporting a uniform of the famend T1 e-sports workforce.
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He’s additionally attributable to have a pork barbecue dinner within the night at a restaurant in Seoul with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder Lee Hae-jin, an individual conversant in the matter stated. The supply needed to stay nameless as a result of the plan is confidential.
“I like Korean barbecue,” he stated. “I like Korean fried hen.”
When requested about potential investments in Korea, he stated: “Korea has many sectors to put money into. Robotics goes to be the following main sector right here in Korea.”
“Korea is extraordinary at manufacturing, mechatronics, and likewise synthetic intelligence,” he stated. “The fusion of all of that expertise is ideal robotics.”
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Baseball and television speak present
Huang additionally stated he desires to guarantee that his Korean suppliers are “aligned,” citing reminiscence chips like conventional DRAM chips and superior HBM chips.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix between them make about 70% of the reminiscence wanted for synthetic intelligence chips like those Nvidia makes. And the nation’s manufacturing power places it in a great place to be a key participant in bodily AI, the place the expertise is embedded in robots, automobiles and factories, analysts say.
He additionally stated Nvidia had began hiring for its analysis and growth centre in Korea.
“As quickly as we have sufficient folks right here, then we’ll construct a website,” he stated.
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Throughout his journey, Huang is because of throw out the primary pitch at a baseball sport and seem on a TV speak present.