NVIDIA, Rebellions and SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Korea
Rebellions will link its R200 chips to NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion, and SK Telecom will deploy the systems in its data center.
Three companies in Korea and the US will build huge machines that run AI. They will be ready in about two years, so you will not notice a difference now.
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Why it matters
Korean chips are joining NVIDIA's systems, which widens the choices for countries and companies building their own AI infrastructure.
Watch: many countries want AI infrastructure of their own.
The details
- The three companies announced the collaboration on 8 November, backed by Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT.
- Rebellions will connect its R200 neural processing units inside a rack using NVIDIA's NVLink networking.
- The companies plan to split inference: NVIDIA GPUs for the first stage (prefill) and Rebellions for the second (decode).
- SK Telecom will deploy these systems in its data center alongside its own models, including A.X K2.
- Rebellions expects R200 systems to be ready for deployment in 2028.
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