South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT proposed a 2027 budget of 29.6 trillion won, up 24.5 percent from this year’s supplementary budget. AI spending would rise 84.3 percent to 9.4 trillion won, while R&D funding would increase 18.5 percent to 14.1 trillion won. The ministry plans investments in semiconductors, physical AI and AI data centres, expansion of GPU capacity for independent AI models, AI services and inclusion programmes, and funding for advanced technologies including quantum, biotech and space.

Nvidia\'s AI edge is expanding beyond the performance and supply of its GPUs to system capabilities that coordinate entire data centres, an assessment says. As AI computing scales to gigawatt levels, efficiently linking memory, storage, networks and data flows is becoming critical to performance and cost. The shift is reflected in Nvidia’s strategy to build integrated data centre systems, including its next-generation Vera Rubin architecture combining GPUs, CPUs, accelerators, storage and networking racks.