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SKT, SK하이닉스 美 AI컴퍼니에 7384억 출자
[경제일보] SK텔레콤이 SK하이닉스의 미국 AI 투자·솔루션 법인에 7384억원을 출자한다. SK그룹이 반도체를 중심으로 구축 중인 글로벌 AI 생태계에 통신·서비스 계열사인 SKT도 직접 참여하면서 그룹 차원의 AI 협력 구도가 한층 선명해지는 모습이다. 25일 SK텔레콤 공시에 따르면 미국 소재 계열회사인 SK hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp.의 신규 주식 취득을 위한 현금 출자 약정 체결을 결정했다고 공시했다. 취득 예정 주식은 1198주이며 취득금액은 7383억8400만원이다. 이는 SK텔레콤 자기자본 12조9552억9239만원의 5.70%에 해당한다. 출자는 한 번에 이뤄지는 방식이 아니라 발행회사의 납입 요청에 따라 약정 한도 안에서 순차 집행된다. 취득 예정일은 2030년 6월25일이다. 출자가 마무리되면 SK텔레콤은 해당 법인의 지분 0.9%를 보유하게 된다. 투자 대상인 SK hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp.는 SK하이닉스가 미국에서 운영하는 반도체 판매·연구개발 법인이다. SK하이닉스는 올해 1월 이 법인을 AI 솔루션 회사, 이른바 ‘AI Co.’로 개편해 AI 데이터센터 생태계의 핵심 파트너로 키우겠다는 계획을 발표했다. 기존 솔리다임 기반의 낸드·스토리지 역량을 바탕으로 미국 내 AI 혁신기업 투자와 협업을 확대하겠다는 구상이다. SK하이닉스의 전략은 단순 메모리 공급사를 넘어 AI 데이터센터 전반의 솔루션 파트너로 확장하는 데 맞춰져 있다. HBM 등 AI 메모리 경쟁력을 기반으로 AI 시스템 최적화, 데이터센터 아키텍처, 소프트웨어 역량, 스토리지 솔루션까지 협력 범위를 넓히려는 흐름이다. 미국 법인은 이 과정에서 글로벌 AI 기업과 기술·투자 네트워크를 연결하는 전진기지 역할을 맡는다. SK텔레콤의 참여는 이 구상에 통신과 AI 서비스 역량을 더하는 의미가 있다. SKT는 AI 데이터센터, AI 클라우드, AI 에이전트, B2B AI 서비스 등으로 사업 전환을 추진해 왔다. SK하이닉스가 메모리와 스토리지, AI 인프라 하드웨어 축을 담당한다면 SKT는 네트워크와 클라우드, 서비스 운영 경험을 통해 AI 생태계의 활용 측면을 보완할 수 있다. 지분율 0.9%만 놓고 보면 단순 소수 지분 투자처럼 보일 수 있다. 그러나 취득금액이 7000억원을 넘는다는 점에서 의미는 작지 않다. 지배 목적의 투자가 아니라 SK그룹 AI 밸류체인 안에서 사업 기회를 함께 발굴하겠다는 전략적 참여에 가깝다. SK하이닉스의 AI 인프라 투자와 SKT의 AI 서비스 확장을 연결하는 신호로 읽힌다. SK텔레콤 관계자는 “당사 AI 사업과의 시너지 확보 측면에서 SK하이닉스가 설립한 AI Co.에 출자를 결정했다”며 “급변하는 AI 생태계에서 다양한 기회를 발굴할 계획”이라고 말했다. 이번 출자는 SK그룹의 AI 전략이 계열사별 개별 투자 단계를 넘어 공동 생태계 구축으로 이동하고 있음을 보여준다. AI 경쟁은 더 이상 모델이나 반도체 하나로 끝나지 않는다. 메모리, 스토리지, 데이터센터, 클라우드, 네트워크, 서비스가 함께 맞물려야 한다. SK하이닉스의 반도체 경쟁력과 SKT의 통신·AI 서비스 역량이 실제 사업으로 연결될 수 있다면 그룹 차원의 AI 포트폴리오는 더 두꺼워질 수 있다.
2026-06-25 21:27:31
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Lessons in Leadership from the Classics | Chapter 4: Nvidia
The Patience and the Ascent of Jensen Huang How the Alleyways of Korea and the Floors of Semiconductor Factories Forged the Aesthetics of 古枯孤高 [Economy Daily] At the beating heart of the civilizational upheaval we call artificial intelligence stands one company and one man: Nvidia and Jensen Huang. The world measures them in market capitalization and market share. But the deeper truth of great leadership outlasts any number. It is the power of time, long and unhurried. It is the discipline of subtraction. It is the courage of solitude. And it is, finally, the dignity that comes only from having endured. In the vocabulary of East Asian philosophy, these four qualities compress into a single phrase: 古枯孤高 — ancient (古), austere (枯), solitary (孤), elevated (高). Nvidia's rise is not the story of a stock that spiked overnight. It is the story of these four characters slowly calcifying into the bones of one man and the culture of one company, across thirty years of painstaking accumulation. 古 — The Ancient: Time as the First Discipline Every great enterprise, if it is truly great, eventually earns its face — but only through time. Jensen Huang had been walking this earth as a businessman long before the world knew his name. His relationship with Korea begins here, and it begins on foot. According to domestic industry accounts from that era, Huang made repeated visits to Yongsan Electronics Market in Seoul in the late 1990s and early 2000s — when Nvidia was still an obscure startup struggling to be taken seriously. He came not as a visiting dignitary but as a salesman: explaining graphics cards to shop owners, persuading assemblers, winning trust one transaction at a time. Huang himself has said his connection to Korea dates to 1996. He has spoken of how South Korea's explosion of high-speed internet, its PC-bang culture, and the nationwide fever for StarCraft formed a critical foundation for Nvidia's early growth. Korea, in those years, was the world's most electrified laboratory for digital culture — and the heat of its gaming rooms, the sharpness of its consumers, the velocity with which it embraced new technology, all of it nourished a company that had not yet found its footing. This detail matters enormously. The histories of great corporations are often rewritten to begin in gleaming boardrooms or on famous stages. But Jensen Huang's formation happened in narrow storefronts, surrounded by towers of component boxes, in a market where customers were price-sensitive and performance-obsessed and utterly unimpressed by brand mythology. In Yongsan, he did not sell a brand. He sold credibility. He sold product knowledge. He sold the felt experience of superior performance. The I Ching offers an image for this season of a man's life: 潛龍勿用 — "the hidden dragon does not yet act." The dragon submerged beneath the water has not yet ascended to the sky, but it is already gathering strength, already orienting itself toward its direction. Korea was that submerged time for Jensen Huang. It was where the dragon went quiet and grew. 枯 — The Austere: The Discipline of Withholding Austerity is not poverty. It is restraint. And few companies in the history of Silicon Valley have practiced restraint as rigorously or as consequentially as Nvidia. While its competitors raced to win the surface war — chasing specification numbers, upgrading the cosmetics of their products, playing to the gallery of consumer benchmarks — Huang kept his organization's attention trained on something less visible and far more consequential: the underlying architecture of computation, the logic of parallel processing, the infrastructure that would eventually become the indispensable engine of artificial intelligence. This is the aesthetic the Chinese literati call 枯淡 — a beauty that comes not from ornament but from essence. The Diamond Sutra puts it this way: 凡所有相 皆是虛妄 — "all that has form is ultimately illusion." In business terms: what catches the eye rarely determines a company's fate. What determines fate is the capability that cannot be seen. Nvidia understood this early. That is why the Nvidia of today rests not on the appearance of its products but on the depth of its software ecosystem, its developer base, and the intellectual architecture that competitors cannot easily replicate. This philosophy of austerity extends to Huang's understanding of human character. Speaking at Stanford, he told students that the most important trait for success is not intelligence but resilience — and went further, saying, "I hope you will have the experience of suffering and hardship." It is a startling thing to say, and deliberately so. His point is unambiguous: greatness is not the product of cleverness alone. Character is forged not in comfort but in friction. Huang speaks from experience. He has publicly described being bullied in an American boarding school as a boy, washing dishes and cleaning bathrooms at minimum wage. His philosophy of hardship is not rhetoric. It is autobiography. Most organizations today speak to their people endlessly about well-being and are afraid to speak about tempering. But Jensen Huang did not flinch from the uncomfortable truth: growth always requires some degree of resistance and endurance. He knows this in his body. 孤 — The Solitary: The Courage of the Unfashionable Conviction Solitude, properly understood, is not the condition of being alone. It is the willingness to choose a road that others have not taken — and to walk it long enough to find out whether you were right. Nvidia was, for a very long time, a company that received no particular applause. It was known as a graphics chip company, and in that category, it was formidable. But inside that public identity, Huang carried a private and lonely conviction: that the dominant paradigm of computing would shift — that the age of the general-purpose CPU would eventually yield to an age of accelerated computing. Markets demand the present moment. Leaders sometimes have to absorb today's contempt in exchange for tomorrow's vindication. Only those who sustain that solitude earn the right to the rewards of early arrival. The Analects of Confucius puts it plainly: 德不孤 必有隣 — "virtue is never truly alone; it will always find its neighbors." What appears solitary and eccentric at the beginning eventually draws its community. And in the story of Nvidia and Korea, this movement from isolation to alliance is almost perfectly illustrated. The partnership between Huang and South Korea has long since outgrown its origins in retail sales. SK Hynix began collaborating with Nvidia on High Bandwidth Memory in the uncertain early days of that technology — a bet made before the outcome was clear. That relationship has since deepened into something that resembles co-development more than supply chain. Nvidia has been advancing large-scale AI chip supply and infrastructure cooperation with the Korean government, Samsung, the SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver. The lonely salesman who once walked the aisles of Yongsan is now at the table with the leaders of Korean industry and government, shaping the architecture of the nation's AI future. The solitary vigil became a strategic alliance. What was once walked alone is now walked together. 高 — The Elevated: Altitude as Accountability Elevation is not merely position. It is character — the capacity to see farther and to hold responsibility longer than others can or will. The Doctrine of the Mean speaks of 至誠無息 — "true sincerity never rests." This is, unexpectedly, one of the most precise descriptions of how Jensen Huang has run his company. He did not build Nvidia on a passing fashion. He crossed product failures, market cynicism, supply chain crises, and geopolitical headwinds, and climbed — slowly, deliberately, one foothold at a time — to the position the company occupies today. This is not a mountain ascended in a season. This is a summit reached in decades. Here, again, Korea re-enters the story. However regal the title "emperor of the AI era" may sound, the circuitry running through that crown is substantially Korean. Korea began as the consumption frontier — the PC-bang, the gaming market, the early adopter culture that gave Nvidia its first mass foothold. It has since become the strategic frontier: the partner in HBM and advanced memory, the co-architect of AI factories and digital transformation. Between the image of Jensen Huang persuading shop owners in Yongsan and the image of Jensen Huang discussing AI infrastructure with the heads of Korea's largest conglomerates, there runs a very long river. But the river is unbroken. What he first saw in Korea was not merely a sales opportunity. He saw a society with an extraordinary capacity for fast technical comprehension, for organizing technology into industry, for connecting the work of the mind to the work of the factory floor. That insight lives inside every partnership he has built here since. A Reckoning for Korean Business What, then, should Korean business leaders take from this? The lesson is not complicated, though it is demanding. Innovation does not arise from eloquent mission statements. It arises from time endured, from the discipline to discard the inessential, from the independence to pursue an unpopular answer, and from the accountability that eventually transforms all of it into something worthy of the word dignity. Jensen Huang's career is not a story of a man who happened to catch the AI wave at the right moment. It is a story of sediment — of years and decades of experience, discipline, and conviction accumulating until they were precisely aligned with the door that history opened. Which asks certain questions of Korean business. Do we still carry the original instinct of those years when we wrestled with the market on the ground floor — when we had no reputation to trade on, only our knowledge and our reliability? Do we have the austere courage to strip away what is not essential? Do we have the nerve to choose the lonely right answer over the popular wrong one? Management, at its best, is completed in the love of people, in the respect for the work done in the field, and in the refusal to defy the logic of time and nature. The tree that grows too fast is hollow at its core. The success that comes too easily has shallow roots. Nvidia — Jensen Huang's Nvidia — took the opposite path. It stood like an ancient tree, silent and unhurried, enduring the winds and the droughts, growing upward alone toward the high place it had decided, long ago, to reach. His success, for that reason, is not a flash of light. It is light that stays. That is the lesson of 古枯孤高. Only those who have endured long enough ascend high enough. Only those who have passed through austerity reach genuine depth. Only those who have borne solitude long enough find themselves, one day, at the center of their age. Jensen Huang's Korean story is one essential thread in that larger narrative. Today's glory is conceived in yesterday's alleyways. Even the history of the world's most powerful technology company is completed, in the end, only on the accumulated sweat and trust of human beings. He is demonstrating that, quietly, every day. The author is a contributing columnist covering business philosophy, technology, and economic history.
2026-04-22 11:57:23
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