SAMSUNG AND SK HYNIX TO SUPPLY CHIPS FOR OPENAI'S MASSIVE STARGATE PROJECT

Two of South Korea's biggest technology companies, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, are set to become key suppliers of advanced memory chips for OpenAl’s ambitious Stargate project, according to people familiar with the deal.

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The move positions South Korea at the heart of one of the most significant Al infrastructure undertakings to date, while underscoring just how enormous the demand for high-performance chips has become in the global Al race.

WHAT IS STARGATE?

Stargate is OpenAl's planned next-generation Al supercomputer, developed in partnership with Microsoft, which has pledged to invest as much as $100 billion in the effort. The system isenvisioned as a massive distributed data center complex capable of training and running artificial intelligence models at unprecedented scale.

The project will reportedly involve millions of GPUs and custom accelerators, along with vast amounts of supporting hardware such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM), DRAM, and NAND flash. Once complete, Stargate could be the single largest Al computing facility ever built, with enough capacity to support OpenAl's pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

THE ROLE OF SAMSUNG AND SK HYNIX

Both Samsung and SK Hynix are global leaders in memory chip production. Their chips are critical for Al workloads, which require enormous bandwidth to move data between processors and storage at lightning speeds.

SK Hynix already supplies much of the HBM3 memory used in Nvidia's GPUs, the backbone of current Al systems. The company is preparing to scale up production of its even faster HBM4 chips, which will likely be a cornerstone of the Stargate buildout.