NVIDIA and Samsung just announced plans to build a groundbreaking AI factory powered by more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs, marking a massive shift toward intelligent semiconductor manufacturing. The partnership extends their 25-year collaboration into autonomous chip production, promising 20x performance gains in computational lithography and setting new global standards for AI-driven manufacturing at scale.
NVIDIA and Samsung just dropped the biggest manufacturing partnership announcement of the year. The two tech giants are building what they're calling an "AI factory" - a massive semiconductor production facility powered by more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs that promises to revolutionize how chips get made.
The timing couldn't be more critical. As the AI boom strains global chip supply chains, traditional manufacturing methods are hitting their limits. This new facility represents Samsung's complete digital transformation, integrating accelerated computing directly into advanced chip production for the first time at this scale.
"We are at the dawn of the AI industrial revolution," NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters at the APEC Summit announcement. "Samsung is forging its AI foundation with NVIDIA to lead the future of intelligent and autonomous manufacturing." The partnership builds on their relationship dating back to 1995, when Samsung provided DRAM for NVIDIA's first graphics card.
The numbers are staggering. Samsung's already seeing 20x performance improvements in computational lithography - the most demanding part of chip manufacturing - by integrating NVIDIA's cuLitho library into their OPC platform. That's not just an incremental upgrade; it's the kind of leap that redefines what's possible in semiconductor production.
But this goes way beyond faster chip making. Samsung is deploying NVIDIA Omniverse to create digital twins of their global fabrication facilities. These virtual replicas will enable predictive maintenance, real-time decision-making, and what the companies call "factory automation" - essentially autonomous fabs that can optimize themselves.
Samsung Executive Chairman Jay Y. Lee emphasized the partnership's scope during the announcement: "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."
The ripple effects are already hitting the broader semiconductor ecosystem. Samsung is working with electronic design automation partners including Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens to completely reshape GPU-accelerated EDA tools. The company's also deploying NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers with Blackwell GPUs for intelligent logistics and anomaly detection across their production lines.
