S Korean AI chip firm Rebellions launches AI chip to rival Nvidia
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S Korean AI chip firm Rebellions launches AI chip to rival Nvidia. Rebellions, a South Korean AI chip startup, is aiming to compete globally with its inference-focused chips, said CEO Park Sung-hyun. The company raised 350 billion won (US$237 million) earlier this year from investors including Samsung Electronics and Arm. The company recently launched the Rebel-Quad chip, which combines four AI inference chips to support large-scale data processing. Rebellions said the new chip targets governments and companies looking for alternatives to Nvidia's products. Food for thought. Rebellions inference claims need outside checks beyond 2023 MLPerf. * In 2023 MLPerf inference for language and vision (MLPerf is an industry-standard AI benchmarking suite), Rebellions' ATOM beat Qualcomm and Nvidia 1. Since then, Nvidia topped MLPerf Training v5.1 with Blackwell Ultra (its latest GPU platform), delivering over 4x Llama 3.1 405B pretraining and nearly 5x Llama 2 70B Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning versus Hopper 2. * REBEL-Quad (a module that combines four Rebellions inference chips) lacks independent benchmarks 3, which makes competitiveness against current Nvidia GPUs hard to judge given Nvidia's one-year innovation cycle 2. * Pricing, total cost of ownership data, and availability timelines for REBEL-Quad remain unpublished. Enterprise IT buyers weighing alternatives to...
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