Why did Jensen Huang’s ‘chimaek summit’ omit the chair of Nvidia’s No 1 Korean supplier?
The question hanging over the Gangnam gathering was straightforward: why was Nvidia’s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI chips, absent?
The question hanging over the spontaneous Gangnam gathering was straightforward: why was SK Hynix, Nvidia’s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI chips, conspicuously absent?
The absence of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won from the headline-grabbing “chimaek summit” was less a diplomatic slight than a matter of logistics and timing.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang meets with Samsung, Hyundai chiefs over beer and fried chicken
Sources familiar with the matter said the dinner was never meant to be a formal “Korea Inc.” meeting. Huang himself described it as simply wanting to “eat chimaek with friends”, not hold a press conference, and the informal venue could accommodate only a small circle.