SK Group and NVIDIA today announced a $500 billion-plus initiative spanning AI factories and next-generation memory.
➡️ @SKtelecom is building a 2-gigawatt NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory in Korea to serve global compute demand.
➡️ @SKhynix and NVIDIA will codevelop next-generation AI memory, including HBM.
Korea is ready to become a global AI powerhouse with world-class networks and data centers, leadership in chip technology and vast industrial scale.
CHINESE MEMORY IS NO LONGER THE CHEAP ALTERNATIVE
China’s largest DRAM maker, CXMT, is reportedly charging more than Samsung’s roughly $1,240 price for comparable 64GB DDR5 server memory modules.
CXMT spent years competing as a cheaper, state-backed alternative. Now, AI data-center demand has tightened conventional memory supply, while Beijing has steered state-owned buyers toward domestic suppliers.
Reuters reports CXMT has secured a five-year agreement worth more than $7 billion with ByteDance and another worth over $3 billion with Tencent.
The company generated $7.5 billion in Q1 revenue, up 719% year over year, and is preparing to debut in Shanghai following an $8.6 billion IPO. New factories could more than double production capacity to over 600,000 wafers per month.
$NBIS has installed its first full $NVDA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at its Finland data center alongside Nvidia Spectrum-6 networking.
Nebius is now bringing compute and networking up together to accelerate validation and shorten the path to production workloads.
$GOOGL says it will “expand the use of third party capacity in Q3” as a bridge while it builds more internal capacity.
After years of surging hyperscaler CaPex, demand still exceeds supply showing shortage is severe enough that even Google will accept lower margins for faster access to compute.
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