Industrial innovation changed by 260,000 GPUs… ”AI Factory” becomes a testing ground

Under the implicit support of US President Donald Trump, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has been looking for an ‘AI Factory’ partner in the US. In Germany alone, a manufacturing powerhouse in Europe, major companies such as Siemens, Ansys, and Cadence have established a collaborative relationship with NVIDIA to implement an AI factory. However, only about 10,000 GPUs are scheduled to be supplied to them. In Japan, too, in November of last year, SoftBank Group, led by Chairman Masayoshi Son, announced that “Japanese companies have gained access to the most powerful supercomputers,” but the size mentioned at the time was “1,600 Blackwells.”

Experts attach significance to the fact that NVIDIA has announced to the world its intention to turn Korea into a huge AI factory testing ground. The goal is to realize a completely new concept of manufacturing plant centered on computation, data, and models in Korea, which has the world’s most diverse manufacturing portfolio, including semiconductors, automobiles, petrochemicals, defense industry, precision robots, and nuclear power plants. An industry official said, “If the United States, which lacks skilled manpower, is to revive as a high-tech manufacturing powerhouse, it will have no choice but to bet on its AI alliance with Korea.”

This time, Jensen Huang decided to sell large-scale Blackwell GPUs to Korea.

What productivity improvements will AI, rather than generative AI, bring to the manufacturing industry?

Korea, with its diverse manufacturing industries, is the best country to test.

It is also a favorable choice for Jensen Huang.