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NVIDIA says Samsung, Kakao Mobility and LG expand physical AI work
NVIDIA said Korean firms are using its chips and software for semiconductor simulation, planned Level 4 driving and factory robots.
NVIDIA said in a company blog dated Nov. 8, 2026, that South Korean manufacturers and mobility firms are expanding use of its accelerated computing and AI software for semiconductors, robots and autonomous vehicles1.
Samsung Electronics is widening work with NVIDIA on technology computer-aided design, process and optical simulation, and materials research, the company said1. NVIDIA said Samsung's sMOL platform ran selected quantum chemical calculations up to five times faster end to end with cuEST, and that a chip-scale thermal analysis case using PhysicsNeMo fell from about 18 hours on a 32-core CPU to 41 seconds on a GPU-accelerated coarse grid, a roughly 1,600-times speedup in that example1.
Kakao Mobility plans to develop a Level 4 driving system using NVIDIA Hyperion and DRIVE AGX Thor, plus Halos for safety work, NVIDIA said, combining Kakao software tested in Seoul's Gangnam district with Kia purpose-built vehicles1.
NVIDIA said it and LG Electronics demonstrated Isaac GR00T-powered manipulation on LG's CLOiD robot in a manufacturing environment, using Cosmos data, Jetson AGX Thor and simulation to train factory tasks1. Independent confirmation of the performance claims and commercial dates was not in the blog1.
