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When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lands in a country, local technology companies line up to meet him. Not because he's handing out gifts, but because in today's AI world, almost no major decision gets made without Nvidia. Huang arrived in South Korea on Friday, and by Monday, announcements of new partnerships were pouring in one after another.

These are not the typical memorandum-of-understanding photo opportunities that often accompany executive visits. These are real technology partnerships, multi-year agreements, and strategic alliances that could reshape the global AI infrastructure landscape.

Nvidia needs Korea because the country produces some of the world's most advanced memory chips. Korea needs Nvidia because without its AI accelerators, even the most sophisticated data center is just an expensive room full of servers.

The main players in this Korean tour are SK Group, Naver, Doosan, and, as it became clear later, LG. Each company received its own dose of Nvidia's influence. And each is now building its AI strategy around technologies from the American giant.

Let's start with the most obvious—and arguably the most important—announcement.

SK Hynix is the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer after Samsung. More importantly, it has become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom thanks to its leadership in HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), the advanced memory technology essential for AI workloads.

HBM is not the kind of memory found in your laptop. It enables data transfers measured in terabytes per second between processors and memory, making it indispensable for training and running modern AI models.

Now SK Hynix and Nvidia have entered into a multi-year technology partnership. This is more than a supply agreement—it involves joint development of future generations of memory and AI accelerators.

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