[Breaking] Jensen Huang Announces "Samsung Foundry to Manufacture 'Groq 3'... Shipments in Second Half" [GTC 2026]

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, officially mentioned Samsung Electronics as the production partner for the next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) inference chip, the "Groq 3 Language Processing Unit (LPU)," on the 16th (local time).

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, is speaking at the 'GTC 2026' keynote held on the 16th (local time) at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, USA. Photo by Hyunji Kwon

During his keynote speech at "GTC 2026," held at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, USA, Huang said, "Samsung Electronics is manufacturing the Groq 3 LPU chips for us," and expressed his deep gratitude to the Samsung team. He added, "The chips have already entered the production phase, and we are increasing output as quickly as possible. Shipments to the market are expected to begin in the second half of this year, likely around the third quarter."

"Groq" is an inference-focused chip startup that NVIDIA acquired last year, and it possesses LPU technology that offers inference speeds overwhelmingly faster than conventional GPUs.

Huang's remarks publicly reveal that Samsung Foundry is participating in the production of NVIDIA's next-generation AI chips, indicating ongoing collaboration between the two companies within the AI semiconductor supply chain.

In particular, following Samsung Electronics' launch last month of the world’s first sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4), the company has now also taken on the foundry manufacturing process, enabling the two companies to establish a "total AI partnership" that covers both memory and foundry operations.

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