South Korea expects contracted deliveries of Nvidia GPUs to proceed without disruption, even after the company's board opened an independent investigation involving chief executive Jensen Huang. The assurance was given on Monday, 9 November 2026, by Vice Minister of Science and ICT Ryu Jemyung to a parliamentary budget committee, according to Reuters.
According to Ryu, 10,000 Nvidia GPUs bought with funds from a 2025 supplementary budget have already arrived and are in use. Nvidia GPUs planned for 2026 are under contract and are expected to enter service this year, the vice minister said. The ministry is closely monitoring developments and discussing prices and schedules with Nvidia Korea.
The background to the investigation
On Sunday, 8 November, Nvidia's board said it had opened an independent investigation after reports that Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort through businesswoman Alice Huang, a former executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data centre company. Alice Huang is not related to the executive. The board said it had no reason to believe that US national security or Nvidia secrets had been compromised.
The South Korean statement comes on the first day of NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026, a two-day event in the South Korean capital. South Korea is one of the biggest hubs in Nvidia's AI infrastructure expansion plan: on 31 October 2025, during the APEC summit, the company announced more than 260,000 Nvidia GPUs for the country, spanning the government, Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group and NAVER Cloud.
According to The Investor, the government buys the processors through server suppliers such as Hewlett Packard, rather than directly from Nvidia, as part of its effort to expand domestic AI computing capacity.
Read more on Geekiki: NVIDIA opens independent investigation into reports of foreign intelligence effort targeting Jensen Huang.
Image credit: Anders Eidesvik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Photo of Jensen Huang at Stanford University, 30 April 2026.
Fontes
- Reuters, via Devdiscourse — South Korea says Nvidia issues won't affect contracted GPU supplies
- The Investor — Nvidia scandal raises export risks for Korean chipmakers
- AI Affairs — South Korea expects contracted Nvidia GPU deliveries to proceed
- FourWeekMBA — Korea Says Nvidia GPU Deliveries on Track, 10,000 in Use
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