Chey Tae-won Steps Up U.S. Outreach, Holds Back-to-Back Meetings With Big Tech Leaders

Chey Tae-won, Chairman of SK Group, visited the United States and, after meeting Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, went on to hold a series of talks with the heads of other global big tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Broadcom and Meta. His itinerary is seen as an effort to deepen engagement not only on memory supply as a key manufacturer, but across the entire spectrum of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
According to the SK hynix newsroom on the 13th, Chey traveled to the United States earlier this month and met in succession with Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Hock Tan of Broadcom, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Sundar Pichai of Google.
On the 5th (local time), Chey first met Huang at the Korean-style pub "99 Chicken" in Santa Clara, where they exchanged views on various ways to cooperate in AI-related businesses. During the meeting, Chey also presented Huang with SK hynix’s semiconductor concept snack branded as "HBM Chips" and the book "Super Momentum," which chronicles the company’s growth story.

On the 6th, he visited Broadcom’s headquarters in San Jose, where he met CEO Hock Tan to share mid- to long-term outlooks for the memory market, supply strategies and the two companies’ investment portfolios. Broadcom is one of the leading "design houses" that provide application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design services.
The talks focused on strategies to respond to next-generation AI chip architectures and memory integration technologies, building on the two companies’ accumulated collaboration in high-bandwidth memory (HBM). In this context, SK hynix agreed to broaden cooperation so that its memory technologies can be incorporated from the design stage of Broadcom’s future AI chips.
On the 10th, Chey met Satya Nadella in Seattle. The two discussed ways to strengthen cooperation not only in memory products such as HBM, but also in areas including AI data center construction and operation, and cloud-based AI solutions.

On the same day in San Jose, Chey also met Mark Zuckerberg to discuss long-term memory supply cooperation. They shared Meta’s plans and roadmap for its AI accelerator development projects and aligned on optimizing SK hynix’s HBM for Meta’s platforms.
The two also explored collaboration to identify key use cases for Meta AI Glass in the Korean market and maximize the service’s competitiveness, including device optimization, app development and the establishment of dedicated AI data centers.

On the 11th, Chey visited the Google campus in San Jose to meet Sundar Pichai and discuss long-term cooperation on AI memory supply. During the meeting, SK hynix proposed expanding collaboration across Google’s mid- to long-term AI chip roadmap, including co-designing custom HBM tailored to Google’s next-generation AI models and Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) architectures, as well as future cooperation on TPU solutions based on HBM4.
one1@fnnews.com Jung Won-il Reporter