Samsung & NVIDIA Forge the World’s First AI Megafactory for Chip Manufacturing

Samsung Electronics and NVIDIA have announced that they will create a new AI-driven manufacturing facility — dubbed the AI Megafactory — representing a major pivot in how semiconductors and electronics are built. According to official releases, the factory will be powered by more than 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs, leverage NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform for digital twins, and embed artificial intelligence throughout chip design, production and robotics workflows.

In 2025, as AI becomes central to everything from data centres to consumer devices, manufacturing must evolve accordingly. This collaboration puts AI at the heart of production — meaning faster chip design, higher yields, smarter automation and a step-change in the cost/performance curve. For the broader industry, it signals that manufacturing is now an AI-intensive process, not just for use-cases.

Key highlights:

• Samsung and NVIDIA will deploy over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs in the factory to enable real-time AI monitoring and decision-making across manufacturing stages.
• The facility uses NVIDIA Omniverse and CUDA-X libraries to build digital twins of entire fabs — enabling simulation, predictive maintenance and operational optimisation.
• Samsung aims to accelerate key chip-making processes, for instance using NVIDIA cuLitho to achieve up to 20× performance improvement in computational lithography tasks. - The partnership extends into memory and foundry technology.
• Samsung is in discussions with NVIDIA to supply its next-gen HBM4 memory solutions and accelerate the AI hardware supply chain.
• Samsung will roll the AI megafactory infrastructure out to its global manufacturing hubs — including its Texas facility — signalling a worldwide upgrade rather than a single site.

Industry context:
The global race for AI chips and manufacturing scale has entered a new phase. With semiconductor supply chains under geopolitical pressure and AI demand exploding, manufacturers are turning to AI inside the factory not just in products. The Samsung-NVIDIA collaboration positions them to lead both the hardware and production paradigm. Competitors like TSMC and Intel Corporation are working on similar automation, but few have publicly committed to this scale of GPU-embedded manufacturing. Meanwhile, the alliance reinforces how AI is reshaping every layer — from device design to factory floor — turning what was a linear production line into a continuous intelligent loop.

This AI Megafactory may well redefine what “chip manufacturing” means. As Samsung and NVIDIA embed AI into every stage of production, expect a next wave of AI-accelerated hardware that comes faster, cheaper and with smarter features built-in — and other manufacturers will have to follow or risk falling behind.