SK Telecom partners with Arm, Rebellions for AI data center solutions

SEOUL, April 10 (Yonhap) -- SK Telecom Co. said Friday it has partnered with British chip design company Arm and South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) chip startup Rebellions Inc. to collaborate on AI data center solutions.

Under a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MOU), the three companies will jointly develop AI inference server solutions by combining Arm's newly launched AGI central processing unit (CPU) and Rebellions' upcoming AI accelerator chip, which is scheduled for release in the third quarter, according to SK Telecom.

The solutions will be tested and verified at SK Telecom's AI data centers.

The Arm AGI CPU is optimized for high-density inference environments and large-scale AI deployment, while Rebellions' new chip, named RebelCard, is designed for large-scale AI inference.

SK Telecom said combining CPUs and AI accelerator chips is widely regarded as an efficient server architecture for data centers running large-scale AI services.

SK Telecom also plans to operate its sovereign AI foundation model, A.X K1, on those servers.

"By offering a full package that combines infrastructure optimized for inference with our sovereign AI foundation model A.X K1, we will further enhance the competitiveness of our AI data centers," said Lee Jae-shin, head of AI business development at SK Telecom.

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