South Korea's science minister says Nvidia reaffirmed a plan to deploy up to 260,000 GPUs, as reported by Yonhap

Yonhap News Agency's English report is marked All News 17:47 on 13 November 2026. As reported by Yonhap, Nvidia has confirmed a commitment to deploy up to 260,000 graphics processing units in South Korea, in partnership with South Korean companies. Yonhap attributes that statement to Seoul's science minister. Yonhap says that in October Nvidia announced a plan to supply GPUs to South Korea to build large-scale artificial intelligence factories.

Yonhap says Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon, in a Facebook post, stressed that business cooperation will continue despite Jensen Huang's resignation, and that the science ministry has held a meeting with Nvidia on pending issues. The Facebook post was not opened. Yonhap says the business tie-up plans announced last year involve the South Korean government and Samsung Electronics, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group and Naver Cloud, and that each will establish its own AI computing centres powered by Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs.

What it means for business: this is a minister's account, as reported by Yonhap, that an existing GPU supply plan continues. The page does not publish a new contract, a delivery schedule, or a dollar figure. This describes the report. It is not advice on a purchase.