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

This image provided by Rebellions on April 10 shows the company’s upcoming AI accelerator chip and Arm’s AGI CPU. [YONHAP]

SK Telecom announced on Friday that it has partnered with British chip design company Arm and South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions to collaborate on AI data center solutions.

According to SK Telecom, based on the memorandum of understanding between the three parties, the three companies will jointly develop an AI inference server solution that combines Arm’s newly released AGI CPU with Rebellions’ next-generation AI accelerator chip, scheduled to be released in the third quarter.

The solution will be tested and validated at SK Telecom’s AI data center.

Arm’s AGI CPUs are optimized for high-density inference environments and large-scale AI deployments, and Rebellions’ chip, named RebelCard, is designed for large-scale AI inference.

SK Telecom said the combination of CPU and AI accelerator chips is widely considered as an efficient server architecture for data centers running large-scale AI services.

SK Telecom also plans to operate the Sovereign AI platform model AX K1 on these servers.

Lee Jae-shin, head of AI business development at SK Telecom, said, “By providing a full package that combines infrastructure optimized for inference and the sovereign AI platform model AX K1, we will further strengthen the competitiveness of AI data centers.”

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