NVIDIA CEO visits South Korea, announces Vera CPU and collaboration with SK Hynix

ChainCatcher report, according to Jin10, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that the company’s new Vera central processor will use memory chips from SK Hynix, with both companies expecting to expand collaboration further over the coming year. Huang told reporters outside a restaurant in Seoul on Sunday that he had dinner that day with SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won, SK Hynix CEO Kwak No-jung, and senior executives from SK Telecom. He said, “Our collaboration with SK Hynix this year has been substantial, and we are preparing for even larger-scale cooperation in the second half of this year and next year. We have launched the Vera CPU, a revolutionary central processor that will also utilize SK Hynix’s DRAM memory.” Vera is NVIDIA’s first standalone data center microprocessor, directly competing with Intel’s Xeon series, AMD’s EPYC chips, and custom chips like Amazon’s Graviton. Huang arrived in Korea on Friday to visit partners and suppliers and is scheduled to meet on Monday with Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kim Kyung-hwan, as well as senior executives from Hyundai Motor Group and LG Group. He also mentioned that discussions are underway with telecommunications companies, as future telecom networks will be utilized for artificial intelligence applications.