Korea is a very important part of the Nvidia ecosystem.
At the Korea Partner Night event held in Taipei, Taiwan, on the 1st, Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive officer, showed his affection for Korea several times. He said, "Korea has many longtime friends and partners who have supported Nvidia for years," adding, "We need to prepare for the future together."
In fact, the real meaning of the event lay elsewhere. It was the first time Nvidia held a separate event exclusively for Korean corporations during Computex 2026, Asia's largest IT and computing expo.
Until now, the main stage of Computex belonged to Taiwan. That is because TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron and Quanta, core corporations in Nvidia's artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain, are all based in Taiwan. Huang has also recently called Taiwan the "center of the AI revolution," emphasizing the importance of Taiwan's ecosystem.
But this year was different. Nvidia invited representatives from Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, LG Electronics, Doosan and Naver, as well as from semiconductor, cloud, robot and startup corporations, to host Korea Night for the first time. On site were Kim Jae-jun, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics' Memory Business, Kwak Noh-jung, president of SK hynix, Jung Soo-heon, head of LG Sciencepark, and Kim Yu-won, head of Naver Cloud.
Throughout the event, Huang stressed Korea's strategic importance. He said, "Korea is an important part of the Nvidia ecosystem," explaining, "Korea is collaborating not only on chips but also in DRAM, and we are working together in science, Robotics and AI factory fields."
What especially drew attention was the mention of the robotics industry. Asked about the possibility of investing in Korea, Huang said, "Robotics is a very important field for Korea," adding, "I want to contribute to Korea's Robotics development."
This is interpreted as seeing Korea as a key partner in the future AI industry beyond the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supply chain. It is also meaningful given that Nvidia has recently presented "physical AI," centered on Humanoid Robot, autonomous machines and Digital Twin, as its next growth engine.
In the latter part of the event, there were also words of praise for SK hynix. When asked about the HBM4 (sixth-generation HBM) race, Huang said, "HBM is very complex. Many factors such as performance, quality, reliability and supply capacity are important," adding, "We have worked with SK hynix for a very long time." He went on, "They recently became a $1 trillion market-cap corporations," and said with a smile, "I'm so proud of them."
In the industry, the event is seen as an example that shows the elevated status of Korean corporations. It is unusual for Nvidia to host a separate partner event for a specific country during Computex. An industry official said, "Korea is establishing itself as a core partner country connected to Nvidia's future businesses, including AI data centers, software and robots, beyond the HBM supply chain."