News Summary
- Samsung and NVIDIA are expanding their 25-year partnership. It now goes beyond next-generation HBM and custom solutions. The partnership now includes factory services for manufacturing, AI, and robotics.
- The two companies aim to achieve breakthroughs in next-generation semiconductors. They also plan to support Samsung’s smartphone and robotics products.
- Samsung is accelerating its optical proximity correction (OPC) lithography platform a process that improves the precision of semiconductor manufacturing by leveraging NVIDIA CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), a GPU-accelerated infrastructure, achieving 20 times faster computational lithography and computer-aided design (CAD) simulations.
- Samsung uses NVIDIA Omniverse, a 3D simulation and collaboration platform, to create digital twins (virtual replicas) for its global factories. This reduces the time from design to operation and enables AI-powered predictive maintenance, operational improvements, and faster decision-making.
- Samsung deploys NVIDIA GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), CUDA-X libraries, and tools from Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens to greatly accelerate simulation, verification, and manufacturing analysis.
At the APEC Summit, NVIDIA and Samsung Electronics announced a new AI factory. This collaboration combines intelligent computing and chip manufacturing using Samsung microchips and NVIDIA platforms to enable next-generation AI-driven production.
Samsung’s semiconductor AI factory will use over fifty thousand NVIDIA GPUs. The factory will play a key role in the company’s digital transformation by accelerating computing in cutting-edge chip manufacturing.
With this partnership, Samsung and NVIDIA set a new global standard for AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing, combining equipment and production data to improve predictive maintenance, process optimization, and efficiency in automated factories.
We are at the dawn of the industrial revolution a new era that will change 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 industry leaders, Samsung is forging its AI foundation with NVIDIA. Together, we will 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 J.Y. Lee, executive chairman of Samsung Electronics. From Samsung’s DRAM powering NVIDIA’s game-changing graphics card in 1995 to our new AI factory, we are thrilled to continue our long-standing journey with NVIDIA, leading this transformation as we envision setting new standards for the future and accelerating breakthroughs for the world.
Samsung and NVIDIA’s partnership began with the NV1 graphics card, which used Samsung’s DRAM. It continued with the first commercial HBM and now includes key supply deals for HBM3E and HBM4. Their twenty-five-year alliance has laid the foundation for today’s AI transformation. The companies plan to keep working together on semiconductors, including HBM, GDDR high-density memory modules, SOCAMM, custom solutions, and foundry services. This supports the broader technology ecosystem.
Samsung is using Nvidia GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), the CUDA-X libraries, and solutions from Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens to significantly accelerate circuit simulation, verification, and manufacturing analysis. Together, the companies are working with these design automation partners to promote innovation in chip design and will continue to improve GPU-accelerated EDA tools and design technologies for the AI era.
Samsung uses the NVIDIA Omniverse platform to build digital twins that accelerate factory development, support machine learning-based predictive maintenance, enable rapid decision-making, and enhance factory automation.
To improve intelligent logistics, Samsung is using NVIDIA RTX Pro servers with RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. The real-time digital twin of the Samsung factory will support operational planning, anomaly detection, and logistics optimization. This is important. This is an important move toward a fully autonomous factory.
To speed up computational lithography (the process of using computers to design circuit patterns), which is the most demanding task in semiconductor manufacturing, companies are adding the NVIDIA cuLitho library (software for advanced lithography) to Samsung’s advanced OPC (Optical Proximity Correction) lithography program. This partnership has resulted in 20 times better performance and scalable deployment across chip manufacturing.
Samsung Accelerates Smart Manufacturing with Digital Twins, Robotics, and Generative AI.
Samsung has developed its own AI models, now running over 400 million Samsung devices. Building on this foundation, these models offer advanced reasoning and deliver impressive results in real-time translation, multi-language conversation, and smart summarization.
Samsung is shaping the future of robotics in manufacturing and humanoid robots. The company is leveraging NVIDIA robotics and technology on NVIDIA RTX Pro servers.
To speed up robot development, Samsung uses the NVIDIA Isaac Sim application, built on the NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos models. This setup connects synthetic and real data, middleware, and teleoperation. Samsung also uses the NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge AI platform, designed for humanoid robots. Together, these tools help robots grasp and interact with the real world in real-time.
NVIDIA and Samsung have also teamed up with Korean telecom companies and universities. They are developing an AI RAN network technology. This technology combines AI and mobile network tasks, which will be important for future physical AI use.
Source: NVIDIA and Samsung Build AI Factory to Transform Global Intelligent Manufacturing
