Nvidia partners with Rebellions and SK Telecom to advance South Korea's sovereign AI infrastructure buildout

November 9 - According to an NVIDIA announcement, NVIDIA has entered into a partnership with South Korean AI chip company Rebellions and SK Telecom to jointly develop infrastructure for large-scale AI inference using NVIDIA NVLink Fusion technology and MGX rack architecture.

Under the collaboration plan, Rebellions will integrate its next-generation R200 neural processing unit (NPU) into NVIDIA's platform, while SK Telecom plans to deploy the related systems in its AI data centers and integrate its proprietary AI models and services. The three parties also plan to explore a disaggregated inference architecture where NVIDIA GPUs handle Prefill and Rebellions NPUs handle Decode, in order to improve inference throughput and energy efficiency.

The collaboration is supported by South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, and R200-related systems are expected to be ready for deployment by 2028.