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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visits Samsung Electronics’ booth at GTC 2026 in San Jose, California. From left: Hwang Sang-jun, Vice President and Head of Memory Development at Samsung Electronics; Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia; and Han Jin-man, President and Head of Foundry Business at Samsung Electronics. (Photo: Samsung Electronics) |
[Alpha Biz= Paul Lee] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited the booths of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix at GTC 2026 in San Jose on March 16 (local time), offering high praise for both companies’ advanced memory technologies.
Huang visited Samsung Electronics’ booth around 5 p.m., where he met Jo Sang-yeon, Executive Vice President and Head of Device Solutions America (DSA). “Samsung is the best in the world,” Huang said, adding, “This is a great partnership.”
When Jo introduced Samsung’s newly mass-produced HBM4 core die as “the world’s best HBM4 currently available,” Huang responded, “Do you need approval?” before signing the product with the message “Amazing HBM4!”
He also signed other exhibits, including a Groq chip wafer manufactured by Samsung Foundry—writing “Groq super fast”—and the Vera Rubin platform. As he left the booth, Huang exclaimed, “Let’s go, Samsung. The next is coming.”
At this year’s GTC, Samsung Electronics unveiled its HBM4E physical chip and core die wafer for the first time. The company highlighted that its HBM4E—offering speeds of 16Gbps per pin and bandwidth of 4.0TB/s—positions it as the only supplier capable of providing memory for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform.
On the second day of the event, Samsung Electronics is scheduled to present its “memory total solution” vision on Nvidia’s stage, led by Song Yong-ho, head of the Samsung AI Center.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won speak at GTC 2026 in San Jose. (Photo: Yonhap News) |
About 30 minutes later, Huang visited the SK Hynix booth, where he met SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won.
“You are perfect. I’m proud of you,” Huang said, signing a Vera Rubin chip prototype equipped with HBM4 and SOCAMM2 with the message “Jensen ♡ SK hynix.”
The meeting came about a month after the two met in Silicon Valley in February.
SK Hynix is showcasing HBM4 and liquid-cooled enterprise SSD (eSSD) technologies at GTC, with CEO Kwak Noh-jung and other top executives expected to discuss mid- to long-term partnerships with global tech companies.
Huang’s back-to-back visits to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix highlight the critical role both companies play in Nvidia’s ecosystem in the AI era. He is also reported to have visited Micron’s booth during the event.
AlphaBIZ Paul Lee(hoondork1977@alphabiz.co.kr)
