Lee Jae-yong, Euisun Chung, and Lee Hae-jin Meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Nvidia Headquarters

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung, and Naver Founder and Board Chairman Lee Hae-jin visited Nvidia's headquarters in Silicon Valley to meet with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jensen Huang.

Nvidia announced that the South Korean business leaders toured its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on the 24th local time.

Chairman Lee, Executive Chair Chung, and Chairman Lee took individual commemorative photos with Nvidia founder CEO Huang in the lobby of the Endeavour building within the headquarters.

The Endeavour building is designed with angular shapes inspired by triangles, which are fundamental elements of modern computer graphics.

The photos released by Nvidia show CEO Huang posing separately with Chairman Lee and Executive Chair Chung, as well as Chairman Lee Hae-jin taking commemorative photos with officials from both companies.

An Nvidia official stated, "At the time of the photo shoot, Nvidia employees nearby were going about their work as usual."

Nvidia did not disclose the specific details of the meeting or the agenda discussed among the attendees.

It is expected that Chairman Lee and CEO Huang focused their discussions during this meeting on the memory and foundry businesses.

Samsung Electronics supplies high-performance memory, including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), to Nvidia.

Executive Chair Chung and CEO Huang reportedly discussed cooperation measures across a wide range of fields, including autonomous driving, robotics, and manufacturing AI.

In particular, given that CEO Huang previously referred to Saemangeum—the planned site for Hyundai Motor Group's investment—as South Korea's "AI Valley" and mentioned cooperation plans such as data centers, discussions are also believed to have covered cooperation with Nvidia regarding Saemangeum.

Naver executives, including Board Chairman Lee Hae-jin and CEO Choi Soo-yeon, are projected to have met with CEO Huang to discuss cooperation strategies related to the AI factory establishment business.

An AI factory is a facility that supports large-scale AI computing by combining physical infrastructure such as Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) servers, data centers, and power and cooling facilities with AI models and cloud technologies.

Additionally, as major South Korean corporate chiefs and founders visited Nvidia's headquarters simultaneously, the possibility has been raised that broad cooperation plans were discussed concerning AI semiconductors, data centers, and physical AI.

The previous day, CEO Huang held a dinner with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won in Woodside, California, where they discussed ways to expand cooperation in the fields of AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and physical AI.

(Photo provided by Nvidia, Yonhap News)
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