Scheduled to meet with LG Chairman Koo Kwang-mo… A meeting with key executives of Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor division is also being coordinated.
It is reported that NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will visit Korea next week.
According to the industry on the 28th, CEO Hwang is scheduled to visit Korea after completing the main schedule of NVIDIA’s annual AI conference ‘GTC Taipei 2026’, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from the 1st to the 4th of next month.
The industry is paying attention to the possibility that with CEO Hwang’s visit to Korea, discussions on high-bandwidth memory (HBM), advanced packaging, next-generation AI accelerators, and foundry cooperation with domestic semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will begin in earnest. Nvidia is leading the AI accelerator market, but cooperation with Korean semiconductor companies such as HBM, advanced packaging, and foundry is evaluated as essential to secure competitiveness in next-generation products.
It is known that CEO Hwang will also meet with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo during his visit to Korea. The two sides are expected to discuss ways to expand cooperation focusing on physical AI. In addition to the existing cooperation between LG Electronics and NVIDIA, the possibility of collaboration at the level of affiliates such as LG AI Research Institute (Exa One), LG Innotek, and LG U+ is also discussed.
Attention is also focused on the possibility of a series of meetings with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, and Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun. It is reported that Chairman Choi plans to meet with CEO Hwang at the information technology exhibition ‘Computex 2026’ held in Taiwan. If this meeting takes place, the two will meet four times in Korea, the United States, and Taiwan over the past seven months.
CEO Hwang visited Korea on the occasion of the APEC summit held in Gyeongju at the end of October last year and had a so-called ‘Kanbu meeting’ with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun, which attracted a lot of attention at home and abroad. At the time, it was CEO Hwang’s first visit to Korea in about 15 years since 2010.
In addition, CEO Hwang is known to be coordinating a meeting with key executives in the semiconductor division, such as Jeon Young-hyun, head of Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions (DS) Division (Vice Chairman).
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