Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met the chiefs of Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor during his first official visit in more than a decade to South Korea on Thursday, highlighting the company's deepening AI ties with its tech and auto industries.

The Korean government, through the Ministry of Science and ICT, is investing in sovereign AI infrastructure with over 50,000 of the

US tech giant Nvidia will provide over 260,000 advanced Blackwell AI chips to the South Korean government and major corporations like Samsung Electronics.

Nvidia shares rose after Amazon boosted AI investment and the chipmaker unveiled major partnerships with top South Korean firms.

Samsung and NVIDIA had a meeting in South Korea this week, and this also included an appearance by Jay Y Lee, who is the Executive Chairman of Samsung, at

SK Group and NVIDIA are deepening their partnership to advance SK hynix HBM and future memory solutions for NVIDIA GPUs, chip

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday he was confident that U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a good conversation during a meeting in South Korea earlier in the day.