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South Korea AI infrastructure partnership

Nvidia and SK Telecom have partnered with South Korean chip startup Rebellions to develop a hybrid computing architecture for domestic AI data centers.

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SK Telecom plans to deploy the hybrid Nvidia and Rebellions hardware within its expanding network of AI data centers.From: Nvidia and SK Telecom Select Rebellions for South Korean Sovereign AI Infrastructure

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Key numbers

Total projected investment by 2035
$500 billion
Hyper-scale AI data centers planned
12
SK Hynix's projected HBM market share
45%
Estimated new high-tech jobs created
150,000

From: Nvidia and SK Group Announce $500 Billion Partnership to Build South Korean AI Infrastructure

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Disaggregated inference splits the workload, using GPUs to process the initial prompt and NPUs to generate the response.From: Nvidia and SK Telecom Select Rebellions for South Korean Sovereign AI Infrastructure ·
Operators are increasingly looking to specialized silicon to curb the massive electricity demands of frontier AI models.From: Nvidia and SK Telecom Select Rebellions for South Korean Sovereign AI Infrastructure ·
How the $500 billion decade-long investment will be distributed across South Korea's AI ecosystem.From: Nvidia and SK Group Announce $500 Billion Partnership to Build South Korean AI Infrastructure ·
SK Hynix is projected to maintain a dominant 45% share of the critical HBM memory market.From: Nvidia and SK Group Announce $500 Billion Partnership to Build South Korean AI Infrastructure ·
Rebellions' upcoming R200 neural processing units are scheduled for commercial deployment in 2028.From: Nvidia and SK Telecom Select Rebellions for South Korean Sovereign AI Infrastructure ·
Architectural concept for one of the twelve hyper-scale AI data centers planned under the new partnership.From: Nvidia and SK Group Announce $500 Billion Partnership to Build South Korean AI Infrastructure ·

Timeline

November 2026

  1. Nvidia and SK Telecom Select Rebellions for South Korean Sovereign AI Infrastructure

July 2026

  1. Nvidia and SK Group Announce $500 Billion Partnership to Build South Korean AI Infrastructure