As announced in a recent press release, Samsung Electronics and NVIDIA are deepening their 25-year partnership to launch a groundbreaking AI factory that merges chip manufacturing with intelligent computing — marking a major milestone in the evolution of the semiconductor industry. Announced at the APEC Summit, the collaboration represents a new era where artificial intelligence becomes a core part of how chips are designed, built, and optimised.

The upcoming AI factory will be powered by more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs, serving as the engine behind Samsung’s digital transformation and enabling AI-driven production at scale. By integrating data from equipment and production workflows, Samsung aims to achieve predictive maintenance, process optimisation, and fully autonomous fab operations — setting a new global benchmark for AI-based semiconductor manufacturing.

“We are at the dawn of the AI industrial revolution,” said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO. “Samsung is forging its AI foundation with NVIDIA to lead the future of intelligent and autonomous manufacturing.” Jay Y. Lee, executive chairman of Samsung Electronics, added, “From our first DRAM for NVIDIA’s graphics cards in 1995 to this new AI factory, we’re thrilled to continue our journey shaping the future together.”

The partnership extends beyond chip manufacturing. Samsung is accelerating computational lithography using the NVIDIA cuLitho library, achieving 20x performance gains in circuit simulations and manufacturing analysis. It’s also harnessing NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and solutions from Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens to boost design efficiency and verification speeds.

In addition, Samsung is leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse to create digital twins of its fabs — virtual replicas that simulate real-world operations, enabling faster design cycles, AI-driven predictive maintenance, and real-time decision-making. The company is also deploying NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs to enhance intelligent logistics and anomaly detection.

Beyond semiconductors, Samsung is using NVIDIA robotics technologies — including Isaac Sim and Jetson Thor — to develop humanoid robots capable of real-time interaction and manufacturing automation.

With this partnership, Samsung and NVIDIA are not only strengthening their semiconductor legacy but also pioneering the fusion of AI, robotics, and smart manufacturing, defining what the factory of the future will look like.