Nvidia plans to recruit talent for South Korea R&D center - Crypto Briefing

Nvidia is planning to establish a new research and development center in South Korea, marking its first publicly acknowledged R&D facility in the country. The center will focus on physical AI, robotic... Read original →

Nvidia’s new R&D center in South Korea isn’t just about talent—it’s a strategic recalibration of the global AI hardware stack. By anchoring physical AI and robotics development there, Nvidia tightens integration with Samsung and SK Hynix, accelerating demand for HBM and advanced packaging while creating a localized compute-memory ecosystem. Geopolitically, South Korea offers a neutral yet technologically sovereign base that sidesteps U.S.-China decoupling risks. Competitors like AMD and Intel will likely double down on heterogeneous integration with TSMC and packaging partners in Taiwan, China, to counter Nvidia’s vertical moat. Over the next 12–24 months, this hub will catalyze Hyundai’s embodied AI ambitions and trigger a subsidy race across East Asia, as Japan and Vietnam vie to become alternative nodes in the AI infrastructure supply chain.