SKT partners with Arm, Rebellions on hybrid CPU-NPU servers

SK Telecom has teamed up with semiconductor design giant Arm and artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator startup Rebellions to develop a hybrid central processing unit (CPU)-neural processing unit (NPU) solution to empower next-generation AI infrastructure. SK Telecom said Friday it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with the two companies. Under the agreement, the three parties will jointly develop an AI inference server solution that integrates Arm’s new Arm AGI CPU with Rebellions’ AI accelerator chip RebelCard, which is slated for release in the third quarter. The solution will be tested and verified in SK Telecom’s AI data centers. Arm AGI CPU, which marks Arm’s first architecture for data center processors, is optimized for high-density AI inference workloads and large-scale AI deployment. Rebellions’ RebelCard is specialized for large-scale AI inference. The partnership comes as the AI industry undergoes a paradigm shift from training AI models to powering real-world services, driving demand for data center architectures that balance performance and power ef