Nvidia’s Groq chip ramp brings Samsung foundry closer to profit

Nvidia has begun mass production of its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, with Samsung Electronics manufacturing the key chips, raising expectations that the Korean tech giant’s loss-making foundry business could return to profit as early as this year.

Nvidia said Tuesday at the Hot Chips 2026 conference in California that Groq 3 LPX has entered full-scale production as the AI chip leader expands beyond graphics processing units into a broader computing stack spanning training, inference, system