Jensen Huang: Semiconductor industry may need to expand to 10 times its current size in the next 10 years.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said in an interview with Bloomberg’s podcast that South Korea is in a "golden age," and its semiconductor and industrial capabilities can help build global AI infrastructure. NVIDIA has reached multiple partnerships with SK Group, with the two sides’ future business dealings in areas including memory procurement, AI supercomputers, and data center construction set to exceed $500 billion. NVIDIA will purchase large volumes of memory chips from SK Hynix for years to come, and will jointly advance the technology roadmap for products ranging from HBM2, HBM3, HBM3E, HBM4, HBM4E to subsequent generations. Meanwhile, SK Telecom plans to expand its AI cloud infrastructure to a maximum of 2 gigawatts in the near term, with NVIDIA set to supply it with supercomputers. The partnership covers both NVIDIA’s memory procurement and SK Group’s purchases of AI infrastructure. Huang believes that as AI agents and robots begin to use computers at scale, chip demand will no longer be driven solely by human users. Over the next decade, the global semiconductor industry may need to expand to 10 times its current size. Currently, resources such as HBM memory, land, power, and data center construction are all tight. The industry could potentially double its scale annually, but faster expansion will be very challenging. The entire industry could double its supply scale each year, but land, power, and factories cannot expand as quickly as consumer electronics equipment, so AI infrastructure construction may proceed at a constrained pace over the next decade. When discussing AI competition between China and the U.S., Huang said both countries have excellent AI researchers. Although their resources, conditions, and constraints differ, both will continue to advance AI technology. China may train more AI researchers annually than the rest of the world combined, and the U.S. still needs to continue learning, cooperating, and maintaining competition.