NVIDIA's tour of South Korea continues to bear fruit. On June 8, 2026, CEO Jensen Huang and LG Group chairman Koo Kwang-mo announced a joint AI factory that will give LG's robotics, autonomous driving, smart manufacturing and data-center businesses dedicated access to NVIDIA-accelerated compute, simulation tools and foundation-model pipelines.
One Compute Base, Four Domains
The AI factory will host LG's training, simulation and deployment workloads on NVIDIA accelerated infrastructure. According to NVIDIA, the rollout focuses on four pillars: home and service robotics built on Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab; autonomous driving and ADAS aligned with the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion compute platform; a smart-factory layer running on Omniverse digital twins; and LG CNS-operated GPU cloud services for Korean enterprises.
The deal slots alongside NVIDIA's other Korean partnerships unveiled around the visit, which include SK hynix on high-bandwidth memory aligned with Vera Rubin and Jetson Thor roadmaps, plus Hyundai Motor Group, Naver, Samsung, KT and Doosan. It also extends LG's existing Omniverse and Isaac collaborations into a structured, multi-year compute commitment.
Home Cobots And Software-Defined Vehicles
For LG, the most consumer-visible payoff is robotics. The chaebol has been quietly maturing home and service cobots since CES, and Isaac Lab gives engineers a physically accurate playground in which to teach those robots dexterous tasks without risking factory schedules or hardware. The factory's mobility track formalizes LG Electronics' push into ADAS hardware and software-defined vehicle platforms, where DRIVE Hyperion provides a reference compute and sensor architecture.
Korea As An AI Compute Hub
The announcement caps a busy week for NVIDIA in Korea. The company has framed the country as a strategic hub for AI infrastructure, building on a memory roadmap aligned with its new Vera CPU launched in May and Windows-AI PC silicon announced as RTX Spark at Computex. For LG, anchoring a domestic AI factory inside that ecosystem keeps the group close to the silicon roadmap that will define the next decade of physical AI.
NVIDIA and LG did not disclose the factory's GPU count or commercial value, but Huang said the partnership would help "make Korea the AI compute foundry of the region."
Reporting based on coverage from NVIDIA Blogs, Interesting Engineering, Analytics India Magazine and eWeek.