Nvidia has entered into new partnerships with SK Group and LG Group, as part of its ongoing effort to strengthen relationships with key technology partners in South Korea.
CEO Jensen Huang revealed the agreements during a visit to Seoul on June 7, alongside deals with internet conglomerate Naver and manufacturing giant Doosan Group, covering cloud infrastructure, energy and physical AI.
Financial details of the deals were not disclosed, though the agreements span AI factory construction, next-generation memory co-development, robotics, autonomous driving, semiconductor design and sovereign AI.
LG: Factory, Robots and Sovereign AI
At the heart of the LG deal is a co-developed AI factory designed to give the multinational electronics conglomerate the computing infrastructure to train, simulate and deploy AI systems across its businesses.
In a blog post on the news, Nvidia said the project will help set a new standard for global smart factories.
“The two companies will … build an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem in which the entire process — from raw material procurement to production, logistics and customer delivery — is connected in real time through data and AI,” Nvidia said.
A key focus of the deal is also on robotics.
LG Electronics will integrate Nvidia’s Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab frameworks into its development process, enabling robots such as LG’s CLoiD home assistant robot to be trained and tested in virtual environments before real-world deployment.
LG is also exploring Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T reasoning model to improve task execution across its platforms, with the two companies planning to jointly develop reference robot systems within the wider Isaac ecosystem.
One of the more distinctive elements of the partnership is LG’s plan to build a physical AI data center, which it has pitched as a resource not only for LG itself but also for other Korean and global companies working on robotics and industrial AI.
Using Nvidia’s Cosmos world foundation models to generate synthetic training data, it positions LG as an infrastructure provider at a time when a lack of adequate training data remains a persistent bottleneck.
“Korea is extraordinary at manufacturing, mechatronics and AI, and the fusion of these strengths will make robotics and physical AI a major growth sector for the country,” Huang said after a meeting with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo.
SK: Memory, Chip Design and the Supply Chain
Nvidia also established a new multiyear technology partnership with SK Group’s semiconductor arm, SK Hynix, focused on developing next-generation memory chips for AI infrastructure.
The agreement builds on a longstanding relationship between Nvidia and SK Hynix and is aimed at supporting rising global demand for AI systems.
Under the agreement, the companies will jointly develop future memory technologies for Nvidia’s AI computing platforms while helping ensure long-term supply of advanced memory products, which often require lengthy development cycles.
“AI factories are the engines of the next industrial revolution, and advanced memory is essential to their performance,” Huang said in a statement on the partnership. “Together, we will codevelop the next generation of memory for AI factories and support the accelerating global expansion of AI infrastructure — from frontier model training to agentic and physical AI.”
SK Hynix said the partnership will also support its expansion into emerging AI markets, including personal AI systems and physical AI applications.
The company plans to develop memory technologies for future Nvidia platforms, including Vera Rubin AI systems, AI PCs and robotics hardware.
“Together, we are codeveloping the next generation of memory for AI factories and applying AI to how we design and manufacture semiconductors — work that will shape the future of AI infrastructure,” Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, said in a statement.
