Jensen Huang flew to Seoul and walked out with a memory deal that stretches across nearly every major Nvidia platform in the pipeline. The Nvidia CEO confirmed on June 7 that the company’s upcoming Vera central processing units will be built with SK Hynix DRAM, a move that cements SK Hynix’s role as the dominant memory supplier for Nvidia’s AI hardware ambitions.
The announcement came during a meeting with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung. The partnership isn’t limited to one chip. It covers memory for the Vera Rubin AI supercomputer, RTX Spark PCs, and Jetson Thor robotics systems, with the collaboration expected to extend into 2027.
Nvidia’s first real CPU play
The Vera CPU is Nvidia’s first standalone data center microprocessor, meaning the company is stepping directly into territory long dominated by Intel’s Xeon, AMD’s EPYC, and Amazon’s custom Graviton chips.
Huang described the Vera CPU as “revolutionary.” Nvidia has spent years building dominance in GPUs for AI training. Now it wants to own the CPU side of the data center, too.
