SK Telecom deploying NVIDIA Omniverse libraries in semiconductor fab digital twins - R&D World

SK Telecom announced on June 1, 2026, that it has integrated SK Hynix’s semiconductor fabs into a digital twin built on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, with commercialization to follow in stages under SK ... Read original →

SK Telecom’s integration of SK Hynix fabs into NVIDIA Omniverse isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a paradigm shift in AI-driven manufacturing. Technologically, Omniverse tightly couples with EUV, 3nm nodes, and HBM lines, slashing equipment ramp time by over 50% and forcing materials and metrology vendors to virtualize interfaces. On compliance, as U.S. semiconductor controls tighten, Korean firms use digital twins to reduce physical trial-and-error—a supply chain resilience play—but over-reliance on NVIDIA’s stack creates new geopolitical fragility. Samsung counters with its 50,000-GPU AI Megafactory, while Taiwan, China’s TSMC lags in closed-loop optimization due to lacking an integrated AI silicon stack. Within 18 months, agentic digital twins will become mandatory for advanced nodes; foundries without them risk exclusion from HBM4 and next-gen AI chip supply chains.