A telecom company just became one of the most important names in semiconductor manufacturing. That’s not a sentence anyone expected to write, yet here we are.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called out SK Telecom as a strategic partner in manufacturing physical AI during his keynote at GTC Taipei on June 1, 2026. The partnership centers on SK Telecom’s use of Nvidia’s Omniverse platform to build detailed 3D simulations of SK Hynix’s semiconductor factories, essentially creating digital twins that can optimize production in real time.
What the partnership actually looks like
SK Telecom is building that simulation for SK Hynix, South Korea’s memory chip giant and a company that supplies a significant chunk of the world’s high-bandwidth memory used in AI chips. The effort falls under SK Hynix’s “Autonomous Fab 2030” vision, which aims to create semiconductor factories that essentially run themselves.
This wasn’t a one-off shoutout, either. Huang previously highlighted SK Telecom during his March 2026 keynote at GTC San Jose, placing the company alongside partners like Boston Dynamics.
