OpenAI, Samsung and SK Hynix
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed partnership deals for artificial intelligence with SK Hynix and Samsung in a visit to Korea Wednesday. He met with President Lee.
OpenAI and South Korean tech conglomerates Samsung and SK on Wednesday announced partnerships to provide chips and other solutions for Stargate, a $500 billion project aimed at building infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly held secretive meetings with TSMC and Foxconn in Taiwan as he looks to secure chip production for future facilities and his own internal chip design plans.
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank announced five new AI data center sites for the $500 billion Stargate project, bringing the total allocated investment to over $400 billion.
Seoul, October 1, 2025 - SK Group announced today that SK Chairman Chey Tae-won and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met at SK headquarters in Seoul to sign a Letter of Intent (LOI) and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop an AI Data Center in South Korea as part of the Stargate project.
Samsung and SK hynix have agreed to supply undiced DRAM wafers to OpenAI’s Stargate project, which could consume up to 900,000 wafers per month, or about 40% of global DRAM output, as Stargate is gearing up for unprecedented expansion.
The afternoon sun was so hot that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman traded his usual crewneck sweater for a T-shirt on the last legs of a Tuesday visit to the massive Stargate artificial intelligence data center complex that will power the future of ChatGPT.