South Korea announces AI-chip and infrastructure initiatives valued at US$950 billion

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Published: 25 July 2026. reports say that Samsung Electronics, SK Group and US partners announced initiatives with a combined stated value of US$950 billion. SK’s package was put at US$750 billion, including a more-than-US$500 billion SK Hynix–NVIDIA partnership. SK Telecom plans a 2-gigawatt data centre using NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure and SK Hynix HBM4, targeted for 2027. Samsung said its Broadcom memorandum covers up to US$200 billion across AI accelerators, memory, foundry and packaging.

Why it matters: Advanced AI depends on memory, foundry capacity, networking, power and complete systems—not GPUs alone. Impact: The initiatives could reshape long-term supply, cloud capacity and national AI competitiveness. The amounts are announced long-horizon deal values; payment schedules, binding purchase commitments and capital expenditure were not fully disclosed or independently audited. a report · NVIDIA