Contracted GPU deliveries unaffected by Nvidia issue, South Korea says

South Korea said on Monday that deliveries of contracted graphics processing units will not be affected by the controversy surrounding Nvidia's chief executive.

Speaking at a parliamentary budget committee in Seoul, Vice Minister of Science and ICT Ryu Jemyung said the 10,000 GPUs funded under the 2025 supplementary budget have already arrived and are in use.

GPUs for 2026 have been contracted and will come into use this year, he said, adding: 'We expect the production and delivery schedule of the contracted volumes to proceed without hindrance.'

The ministry is monitoring the situation and is in talks with Nvidia Korea over pricing and schedules, he said. South Korea is among the leading countries buying GPUs in large volumes to build artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The Korean government has made securing advanced semiconductors a national priority as it races to expand domestic artificial intelligence computing capacity, with public and private data centres competing for limited global supply.