Taipei [Taiwan], November 1 (ANI): SK Group stated Friday that it’s collaborating with Nvidia to construct a large-scale synthetic intelligence manufacturing unit geared up with greater than 50,000 of the US chipmaker’s graphics processing models, in accordance with Focus Taiwan.
Leveraging Nvidia’s Omniverse — a real-time 3D collaboration and simulation platform — SK plans to determine a ‘manufacturing AI cloud’ that can reinforce its competitiveness within the manufacturing sector whereas supporting the expansion of associated startup ecosystems.
The AI manufacturing unit contains the manufacturing AI cloud and the AI information heart challenge in Ulsan, forming an AI industrial cluster based mostly on Nvidia GPUs. SK Group is advancing a hyperscale AI information heart challenge in Ulsan concentrating on 100 megawatts by 2027, with plans to determine the positioning as a serious Asia-Pacific AI hub.
SK hynix, the group’s key affiliate and a number one world reminiscence chip-maker, will implement digital twin know-how throughout its semiconductor manufacturing strains. By creating digital replicas of its manufacturing methods, SK hynix goals to enhance yield charges, allow predictive upkeep and improve operational effectivity — all whereas considerably lowering prices.
The initiative additionally displays Nvidia’s broader imaginative and prescient to democratize entry to high-performance GPU-based computing instruments. The US tech large stated the AI platform will assist startups within the manufacturing sector that presently lack entry to such sources, serving to drive innovation and decrease limitations to entry.
SK hynix has lengthy been one among Nvidia’s closest companions. It is the unique provider of HBM3 — the fourth-generation high-bandwidth reminiscence utilized in AI chips — and accounts for roughly 75 p.c of the worldwide provide of the next-generation HBM3E.
‘SK Group’s collaboration with Nvidia is making AI the driving drive for innovation throughout Korea’s industrial panorama. Through this partnership, we anticipate to unlock new potentialities in scale, pace and precision for all sectors.’ SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won stated. ‘Leveraging the Nvidia AI manufacturing unit, SK Group will set up a next-generation infrastructure to energy advances in reminiscence, robotics, digital twins and clever AI brokers.’
‘In the period of AI, a brand new sort of manufacturing plant has emerged: the AI manufacturing unit,’ stated Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
‘SK Group is an important reminiscence know-how associate, serving to Nvidia create the world’s most superior GPU computing platforms that energy world AI progress. We are delighted to associate with SK to construct its AI basis on Nvidia-accelerated computing and software program, creating AI factories that can rework SK and energize Korea’s AI ecosystem.’
SK Telecom moreover signed a memorandum of understanding with Nvidia on the identical day to collectively analysis and develop AI community applied sciences. The cell provider will collaborate with the US chipmaker to develop AI-RAN, a key know-how for sixth-generation cell communications.
AI-RAN permits the fast, low-latency transmission of AI information generated by varied gadgets throughout wi-fi networks. They will collaborate to validate, standardize and commercialize AI-RAN, with the intention to determine Korea as a worldwide hub for AI-RAN know-how verification.
Following SK Group’s announcement of a strategic partnership with Nvidia, Chey held a separate assembly with Huang after the conclusion of the APEC CEO Summit in Gyeongju on the identical day, throughout which the 2 reaffirmed their longstanding enterprise friendship.
To make up for Chey’s absence from the day before today’s ‘chimaek’ gathering — an informal fried rooster and beer dinner — in Seoul with different conglomerate leaders, Huang gifted him a bottle of Japanese Hakushu 25-year-old single malt whisky and Nvidia’s DGX AI system, which is a high-performance computing platform that symbolizes the corporate’s cutting-edge capabilities.
In return, Chey introduced Huang with a semiconductor wafer produced by SK hynix and engraved with the message: ‘The world’s greatest HBM4 product by SK hynix,’ highlighting the reminiscence chip-maker’s management within the high-bandwidth reminiscence options important for AI infrastructure. (ANI)