SK Telecom reported on June 1, 2026, that it has deployed semiconductor fabs from SK hynix in NVIDIA omniverse twin, with commercialisation to follow in phases under SK hynix’s Autonomous Fab 2030 roadmap.
SK hynix’s announcement is part of a trend of Omniverse-based twin fabs. SK hynix and SKT disclosed the work first at the APEC summit on October 30, 2025, with Samsung announcing its own Omniverse fab digital twins one day later, inside a 50,000-GPU AI Megafactory.
The world’s largest devoted semiconductor foundry, TSMC, unveiled its own version of an Omniverse fab environment, FabTwin, for assessing process-tool configurations.
The fabs from SK hynix in NVIDIA omniverse twin announcements adds to a list of companies that NVIDIA has been courting for months. NVIDIA announced Foxconn, Belden, Caterpillar, Lucid Motors, Toyota, TSMC as well as Wistron are building Omniverse factory digital twins at its GTC Washington, D.C., event on October 28, 2025.
SKT says it will implement Agentic Digital Twin Modeling based on the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit so as to automate the data transformation work of transforming equipment and spatial data into a functional virtual environment.
The fab-twin push is based on the same AI demand which is driving the core business of NVIDIA. SK hynix is a key supplier of the high-bandwidth memory that forms part of the AI accelerators that come from NVIDIA. The increase of HBM orders has driven memory makers to increase capacity at a rate where layout and process errors are costly. SK hynix said its quarterly net profit soared fivefold on booming demand for the memory in first-quarter earnings reported in April 2026, the WSJ reported.