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NVIDIA to supply over 260,000 GPUs to Korea’s government and four companies

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Source: NVIDIAAlso reported by Data Center Knowledge

NVIDIA announced on 30 October 2025, as leaders gathered in South Korea for the APEC summit, that more than 260,000 of its GPUs would go to Korea. The science ministry plans up to 50,000 for the National AI Computing Center and cloud providers, starting with 13,000 Blackwell and other GPUs from NAVER Cloud, NHN Cloud and Kakao. Samsung Electronics and SK Group each plan over 50,000 for AI factories, Hyundai Motor Group 50,000 Blackwell GPUs and Naver Cloud over 60,000.

Why it matters

Korean manufacturers, cloud providers and the national foundation model teams gained a committed supply of NVIDIA GPUs, with up to 50,000 set aside for public use.

When
30 Oct 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0122
Who
NVIDIA, Ministry of Science and ICT, Samsung Electronics, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, Naver Cloud; Jensen Huang

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from NVIDIA and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0122: “NVIDIA to supply over 260,000 GPUs to Korea’s government and four companies.” wheresthe.ai, 30 Oct 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/kr-nvidia-260000-gpus-apec-2025-10/ (source: NVIDIA).

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