Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with SK’s senior executives at a fried chicken restaurant in Seoul, Sunday evening, for what industry watchers expect to be a wide-ranging discussion on their deepening artificial intelligence (AI) cooperation. Led by SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, key executives from the group’s cash-cow affiliates attended the symbolic gathering with the head of the world’s most valuable company at a Kkanbu Chicken restaurant — the same venue where Huang dined with Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun last October. Alongside Chey, SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung and SK Telecom CEO Jung Jai-hun also attended the casual dinner with Huang, which was reportedly arranged at the Nvidia chief’s request. They discussed a wide range of AI partnerships in areas such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM), AI semiconductors, data center infrastructures and physical AI. With both Nvidia and SK Group paying particular attention to smart factories, both sides are also expected to bring up the agenda on the dialogue table. SK h
