SK Telecom to pilot Rebellions NPU for AI services

SK Telecom is joining hands with local artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor startup Rebellions to integrate its neural processing unit (NPU) into core AI services, making a major step toward building a self-reliant AI ecosystem in Korea. The company announced Wednesday that it has begun testing Rebellions’ data center AI chip, ATOM, across several services, including its AI agent A. The two sides are currently testing servers equipped with Rebellions’ data center AI chip, ATOM, across several of SK Telecom’s services, including AI-powered call summarization with A., spam filtering and financial assistant on PASS and the veterinary X-ray image diagnosis service X Caliber. Using the results from the testing, they aim to introduce ATOM-Max, an enhanced version of the chip designed for large-scale AI inference, into these services for commercial use within this year. SK Telecom also plans to gradually expand its adoption of Rebellions’ NPU servers based on the test’s outcomes. Both companies emphasized that this collaboration to test Rebellions’ AI chip for SK Telecom’s seWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times