NVIDIA and Samsung Build AI Factory to Transform Global Intelligent Manufacturing

NVIDIA has announced plans with Samsung Electronics to build a new AI factory, marking the beginning of a new era where intelligent computing and chip manufacturing converge. The state-of-the-art AI factory will merge Samsung’s semiconductor expertise with NVIDIA’s platforms to lay the groundwork for next-generation, AI-driven production.

Powered by over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs, Samsung’s semiconductor AI factory will serve as a central component of the company’s digital transformation, embedding accelerated computing into advanced chip manufacturing processes.

Through this collaboration, Samsung and NVIDIA are establishing a new global standard for large-scale, AI-driven semiconductor production by integrating data from physical equipment and operational workflows to enable predictive maintenance, process optimization, and higher efficiency in autonomous fabrication environments.

“We are at the dawn of the AI industrial revolution — a new era that will redefine how the world designs, builds and manufactures,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “As Korea’s and one of the world’s foremost technology and industrial leaders, Samsung is forging its AI foundation with NVIDIA to lead the future of intelligent and autonomous manufacturing — transforming Samsung itself and the many industries around the world built on Samsung technologies.”

“NVIDIA has been a visionary of this new AI era, and its technologies have empowered innovators to reinvent industries,” said Jay Y. Lee, executive chairman of Samsung Electronics. “From Samsung’s DRAM for NVIDIA’s game-changing graphics card in 1995 to our new AI factory, we are thrilled to continue our longstanding journey with NVIDIA in leading this transformation as we envision creating new standards for the future and accelerating breakthroughs for the world.”

From their early collaboration on NVIDIA’s first graphics card, NV1 — which used Samsung DRAM — to launching the industry’s first commercial HBM and today’s key partnerships on HBM3E and HBM4, the two companies celebrate a more than 25-year alliance that has helped shape the foundation of the modern AI era. Their cooperation will extend beyond HBM, GDDR, high-density memory modules, SOCAMM, and custom solutions to include foundry services supporting the broader ecosystem.

Samsung is leveraging NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA CUDA-X™ libraries, and solutions from Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens to achieve massive acceleration in circuit simulation, verification, and manufacturing analysis. Together with these electronic design automation partners, Samsung and NVIDIA are advancing chip design innovation and evolving GPU-accelerated EDA tools and design technologies essential for the AI age.

Samsung also employs the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform to build digital twins that replicate physical environments with high accuracy. These virtual twins help global fabs shorten design-to-operation timelines and enable AI-driven predictive maintenance, real-time decision-making, and advanced factory automation.

To streamline intelligent logistics under a unified platform, Samsung is deploying NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. The real-time digital twin of Samsung’s fab will support operational planning, anomaly detection, and logistics optimization — a major step toward achieving a fully autonomous fabrication process.

To boost computational lithography — one of the most compute-intensive stages in semiconductor manufacturing — the companies are integrating the NVIDIA cuLitho library into Samsung’s advanced lithography platform, OPC. This collaboration has achieved 20x greater performance and scalable deployment across the semiconductor production chain.

Samsung Accelerates Smart Manufacturing With Digital Twins, Robotics and Generative AI

Samsung has been developing proprietary AI models powering over 400 million devices, delivering advanced reasoning capabilities that enable real-time translation, multilingual communication, and intelligent summarization.

The company is pioneering the next generation of intelligent robotics — from manufacturing automation to humanoid applications — using NVIDIA robotics technologies on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers.

To advance intelligent robot deployment, Samsung utilizes the NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ reference application, built on NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models, linking synthetic and real data, middleware, and teleoperation. Additionally, Samsung integrates the NVIDIA Jetson Thor™ high-performance edge AI platform optimized for humanoid robotics. Together, these technologies enable robots capable of perceiving and interacting with the physical world in real time.

NVIDIA and Samsung have also collaborated with Korean telecommunications companies and academic institutions to develop AI-RAN network technology, merging AI and mobile network workloads — a key enabler for the widespread adoption of physical AI.