NVIDIA and SK hynix Announce Multi-Year Technology Partnership to Advance Memory for AI Factories

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NVIDIA and SK hynix Announce Multi-Year Technology Partnership for Next-Generation Memory Aligned with NVIDIA's AI Infrastructure Roadmap
This collaboration will support the supply of advanced memory, address longer development cycles, advanced manufacturing, and capital investments, enabling the global build-out of AI factories.
SK hynix will diversify its business into new markets created by NVIDIA, including AI infrastructure, personal AI, and physical AI, and will jointly develop memory for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin AI supercomputer, Vera CPU, RTX Spark-powered PCs, and Jetson Thor robotics computing platform.
Both companies will apply AI to semiconductor chip design and manufacturing, accelerating semiconductor simulations, TCAD workflows, and internal engineering code using NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo.
SK hynix will advance the digital twin of its factories by combining NVIDIA Omniverse, OpenUSD scene optimization, and NVIDIA cuOpt to drive fully autonomous fab operations.
SEOUL, South Korea — June 8, 2026 — NVIDIA and SK hynix today announced a multi-year technology partnership to advance next-generation memory for the global build-out of AI factories and accelerate semiconductor design and manufacturing. The collaboration builds on years of deep joint engineering collaboration that has powered some of the world's most advanced AI computing platforms.
"AI factories are the engines of the next industrial revolution, and advanced memory is essential to their performance," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "SK hynix is a fantastic partner for NVIDIA and plays a critical role in providing advanced memory technologies for NVIDIA AI computing platforms. We will jointly develop next-generation memory for AI factories to support the global expansion of accelerating AI infrastructure, from training the most advanced models to agent AI and physical AI."
"SK hynix and NVIDIA have been building towards this goal for many years, and this partnership reflects the depth of that collaboration," said Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group. "We will jointly develop next-generation memory for AI factories and apply AI to semiconductor design and manufacturing. This is an effort to shape the future of AI infrastructure."
The multiyear agreement will support the supply of advanced memory, addressing longer development cycles. As AI factories expand globally, this strategic partnership will ensure memory supply keeps pace with NVIDIA's infrastructure roadmap and the sustained build-out of AI infrastructure worldwide. The partnership will also enable SK hynix to diversify its business into new markets created by NVIDIA, including AI infrastructure, personal AI, and physical AI, and will jointly develop memory for NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI supercomputers, NVIDIA Vera CPUs, NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered PCs, and NVIDIA Jetson Thor robotics computing platforms.
Accelerating Computer-Aided Design and Semiconductor Simulation
SK hynix is accelerating semiconductor simulations, including technology computer-aided design (TCAD) and computational lithography workflows, using NVIDIA CUDA-X™ libraries and AI.
SK hynix is also leveraging CUDA-X and the NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo™ framework to accelerate key workloads across its internal simulation code and AI physics workflows.
By extending these tools to the semiconductor electronic design automation and simulation ecosystem, this initiative opens the door for three-way collaboration among chip makers, NVIDIA, and electronic design automation software vendors.
Advancing Fab Digital Twins for Autonomous Manufacturing
SK hynix is developing digital twins of its fabs as a foundation for autonomous fab operations. The team can build 3D factory scenes to visualize, simulate, and optimize complex semiconductor manufacturing environments using NVIDIA Omniverse™ libraries and OpenUSD pipelines, in addition to scene optimization technologies.
These digital twins will also support the optimization of operations, such as the movement of autonomous mobile robots and other fab assets, using the GPU-accelerated, open-source NVIDIA cuOpt™ decision optimization engine and the NVIDIA Metropolis platform.
The two companies are also exploring ways to integrate digital twins with existing legacy software and agent AI workflows, enabling AI systems to reason based on fab data, automate tasks, and improve manufacturing decisions.
About SK hynix Inc.
SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is a world-leading semiconductor supplier that provides DRAM and NAND flash memory chips to its global customers. The company's shares are listed on the Korea Exchange, and its Global Depository Shares are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. More information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a world leader in AI and accelerated computing.
*This press release is a partial translation of a press release originally issued in the United States on June 7, 2026.