SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, left, speaks with Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang at a Korean restaurant in Silicon Valley, California, the United States, Feb. 5. Yonhap
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won met Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jensen Huang at a Korean fried chicken restaurant in Silicon Valley last week, with Chey's eldest daughter and vice president of the South Korean conglomerate's biopharmaceutical arm also in attendance, industry sources said Wednesday.
The two business leaders and Chey Yoon-chung, vice president of SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., met Thursday (U.S. time) and discussed possible cooperation in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry encompassing the chips and biotechnology sectors, the sources said.
The gathering venue was a Korean-style restaurant, apparently mirroring Huang's October meeting over beer with Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung and Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong at a fried chicken restaurant in southern Seoul.
During their two-hour meeting, the SK chief and Huang are widely believed to have discussed supply plans for HBM4, the next generation of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) expected to be used in Nvidia's upcoming AI accelerator, dubbed Vera Rubin.
The sources said the two may have also discussed ways to seek cooperation in the development of the AI ecosystem in South Korea.
The SK Group chairman has been staying in the U.S. since earlier this month for meetings with officials from big tech companies, according to the sources.
Source: Korea Times News
