Ha Jung-woo, senior secretary for AI future planning on the Presidential Workplace, mentioned on Nov. 10 that Nvidia’s curiosity in South Korea’s synthetic intelligence (AI) trade stems from its view that “South Korea has the setting to create new AI ecosystems in fields corresponding to robotics and vehicles.”
Showing on MBC’s Information Desk the identical day, Ha mentioned, “One other route for Nvidia is in ‘bodily AI,’ and to make this new discipline profitable, not solely GPU knowledge algorithms but additionally manufacturing crops and industrial environments – the bodily world – are important.”
He continued, “America, regardless of its excellent software program capabilities, has very weak manufacturing infrastructure, whereas the EU has sturdy manufacturing however lacks software program competitiveness. South Korea, nevertheless, is seen as having each.”
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who visited South Korea just lately on the event of the APEC summit in Gyeongju, introduced that the corporate would prioritize supplying 260,000 GPUs to South Korea by 2030.
When requested whether or not the 260,000 GPUs Nvidia promised to produce are literally on observe for supply, Ha defined, “We secured the GPU finances via the supplementary finances and positioned the order, and I’ve been advised they’re on their method by ship.”
He added, “Even when all 260,000 items arrive proper now, there shall be no instant energy scarcity, however we should put together for future GPU inflows. Since constructing new nuclear energy crops would take too lengthy, the plan is to arrange for future AI-related demand via a combined technique that expands the proportion of renewable power — corresponding to renewables and small modular reactors (SMRs) — throughout the subsequent two to a few years.”
