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Samsung signs letter of intent to supply memory and data centres for OpenAI’s Stargate

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Source: Samsung NewsroomAlso reported by The Korea Times

OpenAI and four Samsung companies (Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDS, Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries) signed a letter of intent in Seoul on 1 October 2025. Samsung Electronics will be a strategic memory partner for Stargate, whose memory demand OpenAI projects at up to 900,000 DRAM wafers a month. Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries will develop floating data centres, and Samsung SDS will resell ChatGPT Enterprise in Korea. SK hynix announced a similar partnership the same day.

Why it matters

Korea’s two memory makers lined up to supply OpenAI’s data-centre build-out, which projects demand of up to 900,000 DRAM wafers a month.

When
1 Oct 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0119
Who
Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDS, OpenAI, SK hynix

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

Read the original at Samsung Newsroom

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

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WTA-N-2025-0119: “Samsung signs letter of intent to supply memory and data centres for OpenAI’s Stargate.” wheresthe.ai, 1 Oct 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/kr-samsung-openai-stargate-loi-2025-10/ (source: Samsung Newsroom).

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