Samsung Building Facility With 50,000 Nvidia GPUs To Automate Chip Manufacturing
- Reference: 0179925692
- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/31/2352207/samsung-building-facility-with-50000-nvidia-gpus-to-automate-chip-manufacturing
- Source link:
> Korean semiconductor giant Samsung said Thursday that it [1]plans to buy and deploy a cluster of 50,000 Nvidia graphics processing units to improve its chip manufacturing for mobile devices and robots. The 50,000 Nvidia GPUs will be used to create a facility Samsung is calling an "AI Megafactory." Samsung didn't provide details about when the facility would be built. It's the latest splashy partnership for Nvidia, whose chips remain essential for building and deploying advanced artificial intelligence. [...]
>
> On Thursday, Nvidia representatives said they will work with Samsung to adapt the Korean company's chipmaking lithography platform to work with Nvidia's GPUs. That process will results in 20 times better performance for Samsung, the Nvidia representatives said. Samsung will also use Nvidia's simulation software called Omniverse. Known for its mobile phones, Samsung also said it would use the Nvidia chips to run its own AI models for its devices. In addition to being a partner and customer, Samsung is also a key supplier for Nvidia. Samsung makes the kind of high-performance memory Nvidia uses in large quantities, alongside its AI chips, called high bandwidth memory. Samsung said it will work with Nvidia to tweak its HBM4 memory for use in AI chips.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/samsung-nvidia-ai-chips-megafactory.html
Overlords (Score:2)
So the GPUs are now making more GPUs. The singularity just went self-sufficient.
Farts, All the Way Down (Score:2)
It's part of a circular investment scheme, and they're not even hiding it. Samsung provides Nvidia with chips from their fabs and Nvidia sells them back to Samsung. In other words, they're huffing each others farts in order to tart up their respective books. The coming crash is going to be breath taking.
Re: (Score:2)
> The coming crash is going to be breath taking.
Indeed. And yet, the usual idiots will learn nothing and the usual assholes will just try again in a while.
Hallucinations on silicon? (Score:2)
Tell me more about this bad idea! Will be entertaining to see.
Why? (Score:2)
How exactly do 50 thousand gpus gel Samsung make better chips? Is it something used during production, or design?
They talk about using simulation software. Is that it? The article is unclear beyond that little tidbit.
Re: (Score:2)
The article indeed is incredible vague about everything, and the claim "20 times better performance" is nonsensical when there is not even the slightest hint what metric is meant with "performance" there.
Re: (Score:2)
That phrase, "20 times better performance," drove me to the comments to see if anyone had any clue what that was about :-)
I still don't know, but I read it as, "Samsung will make GPUs of Nvidia's design in their facility; Their fab is better, so it will result in 20 times better performance out of the same design," even though I think that'd be damn near impossible. They also mentioned hooking up new memory, so maybe it's the result of all the improvements together? Beats me.
Galaxy AI (Score:2)
I guess Samsung will stop using Gemini AI for its Galaxy AI.
womens shoes (Score:2)
Fifty-thousand graphics cards in use ... without a product specified. Really? Perhaps the graphics cards will be used as heating elements ( blocked-chained heaters ?) for two-hundred guild craftsmen making hi-end womens shoes. I know of no product with documented buying frenzy and unreasonably higher markup than women shoes ... and they can put the factory on a street called "ITALY", so they can advertize crafted Italian womens shoes. To say nothing of the product being generated by family
More like Zoho (Score:1)
I assume you're C-Suite? A 420x69p resell-lution requires substantiation.
Re: (Score:2)
It's the generic all purpose business plan these days:
1. Announce in media you have signed up purchase order to buy a giant pile of nvidia jank.
2. ???
3. Profit!