PC cafe visit spotlights NC's 25-year alliance with Nvidia - The Korea Herald

At a PC gaming cafe in Seoul, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined NC founder Kim Taek-jin at the launch event for NC's latest game, Aion 2, highlighting a 25-year partnership that has evolved from early gr... Read original →

Huang’s Seoul PC cafe appearance isn’t nostalgia—it’s a strategic recalibration of AI-era tech sovereignty. NC’s evolution from Lineage’s 3D graphics to leveraging NVIDIA’s Cosmos and Isaac Sim positions Korea’s gaming ecosystem as a critical training ground for synthetic AI environments. Technically, RTX 5090 and Spark will force game engines, cloud rendering, and industrial simulators to overhaul their stacks. Export controls on U.S. AI chips could inflate NC’s hardware costs in its Southeast Asia JVs. Competitors like AMD and Intel will likely deepen ties with Kakao or Netmarble to fracture NVIDIA’s Korean stronghold. Within 18 months, if NC AI productizes its robot intelligence modules, it could unlock industrial digital twin markets—transforming a gaming firm into a neutral AI infrastructure builder amid U.S.-China tech decoupling.