Cheong Wa Dae: "South Korea and Global Big Tech to Cooperate on $950 Billion Semiconductor Partnership"

Cheong Wa Dae announced that on the occasion of the "San Francisco AI Summit," attended by President Lee Jae-myung and South Korean and U.S. AI companies, domestic firms and global big tech companies have agreed to pursue a semiconductor cooperation project totaling $950 billion (approximately 1,375 trillion won).

Kim Yong-bum, Chief of Policy at Cheong Wa Dae, introduced these achievements during a briefing at the press center set up in San Francisco.

First, Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a $200 billion partnership over the next five years regarding the supply of advanced memory semiconductors and foundry cooperation for AI chip production.

In addition, SK agreed to pursue long-term supply cooperation for advanced memory semiconductors worth $750 billion over the next five years with global big tech companies such as NVIDIA.

Beyond the semiconductor sector, outcomes from discussions on AI data center cooperation were also shared.

Domestic firms and global big tech companies decided to pursue investment cooperation for large-scale AI data centers totaling approximately 5 GW and about 2 million GPUs (Graphics Processing Units).

SKT agreed with NVIDIA on NVIDIA's support for building and expanding AI data centers of up to 2 GW, along with priority allocation of the latest GPU Vera Rubin system, and decided to pursue investment and cooperation with Anthropic on a domestic GW-scale AI data center project.

Naver signed a strategic investment agreement with NVIDIA and decided to build a large-scale global AI factory worth a total of $10 billion through an infrastructure supply contract with global investment firm Brookfield.

Regarding physical AI, the final area of the "three major mega-projects," Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA agreed to jointly build a "Robot Reference Platform"—a standardized infrastructure to develop and verify AI robots—to support robot development by universities and startups, while also announcing a foundry plan for autonomous vehicles with Waymo.

Samsung SDS and Anthropic signed a strategic partnership contract to jointly discover new AI markets and train AI engineers together.

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