New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Nvidia said on Friday that it will supply 260,000 of its most advanced chips to South Korea, following a meeting between CEO Jensen Huang and President Lee Jae Myung on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

This development comes amid a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) push by President Lee, who has expressed his hope that the country can become a leading nation in the AI domain.

Speaking about the plan, US tech giant Nvidia said it was "working with South Korea to expand the nation's AI infrastructure with over a quarter-million Nvidia GPUs across its sovereign clouds and AI factories," AFP reported.

South Korea is home to two of the world's leading memory chip makers - Samsung E...