South Korean firms, Nvidia partner to use local AI chips along with GPUs at data center
( November 9, 2026, 06:36 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: South Korea announced Monday that the country’s Rebellions and SK Telecom have agreed with Nvidia to combine locally designed artificial-intelligence processors with the global giant’s accelerators for use in a local data center. Under the partnership, neural processing units designed by Rebellions will be installed together with Nvidia’s graphics processing units on the latter’s NVLink Fusion platform and used at an AI data center to be built by SK Telecom, the Ministry of Science and ICT said. A few South Korean startups have developed high-performance NPUs designed to run trained AI models more efficiently than GPUs, which are widely used to train foundation models, but are struggling to gain a foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia. The ministry said the collaboration will give domestic AI chip companies opportunities to validate and commercialize their technology for global markets.The statement is attached (in Korean)....
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