Nvidia to supply more than 260k Blackwell AI chips to South Korea (www.reuters.com)

Nvidia has agreed to supply South Korea with more than 260,000 of its Blackwell AI chips, marking one of the biggest single-country deployments of the company’s latest accelerator architecture. The move will rapidly expand high-performance AI compute capacity in South Korea’s data centers, research institutes and cloud providers, giving local companies and public projects access to state-of-the-art hardware optimized for training and running large-scale generative models and other intense ML workloads. Technically, the Blackwell family represents Nvidia’s newest generation of data‑center GPUs designed for higher compute density, improved energy efficiency and faster model training/inference compared with prior generations. This order reinforces Nvidia’s dominant role in supplying advanced AI infrastructure and highlights how nations are racing to secure compute capacity as a strategic resource for AI competitiveness. For the AI/ML community, the shipment means more accessible large-scale training and inference resources in the region, faster experimentation for startups and labs, and renewed attention to supply-chain and geopolitical considerations around concentration of cutting‑edge AI hardware.