NVIDIA Partners with Rebellions and SK Telecom to Advance South Korea's Sovereign AI Infrastructure Development

On November 9, according to an NVIDIA announcement, NVIDIA has partnered with South Korean AI chip company Rebellions and SK Telecom to jointly develop infrastructure for large-scale AI inference, leveraging NVIDIA NVLink Fusion technology and the MGX rack architecture.

Under the partnership plan, Rebellions will integrate its next-generation R200 neural network processor (NPU) into the NVIDIA platform, while SK Telecom plans to deploy related systems in its AI data centers and incorporate self-developed AI models and services. The three parties also plan to explore a disaggregated inference architecture where NVIDIA GPUs handle the Prefill stage and Rebellions NPUs handle the Decode stage, to improve inference throughput and energy efficiency.

With support from South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, the R200-related systems are expected to be ready for deployment in 2028.